“No one can fully give love in authenticity unless the lover or the giver of love is broken and that same brokenness will open the heart to embrace the wounds and the brokenness of others…” - DACASI'S Immoral Code on Love and Lovers      

(Para la mujer, La Luna, en mi sueño)

I have fallen in love to an adorable woman

but it was an unrequited love:

I could not always force someone to love in return.

A pretty girl fell in love with this wounded heart

but she was crying when I told her to love somebody else:

I could not always choose those who loved me.

Some women broke my heart

but other women came

to mend and bandage my broken soul…

I have fallen in love so many times but I was always broken,

I was utterly broken when I found myself falling in love again:

What have I ever lost by loving…?

*Republished from a chapbook of poems “The Saddest Poem and other poems” by Danny C. Sillada.

Poet-painter-philosopher-critic-performance artist from Mindanao; obtained BA Philo., STB and Pastoral Theology at UST, Manila; left the seminary before ordination to priesthood; pursued MBA at Ateneo Graduate School of Business, Makati; resigned from promising career in the corporate world to become full-time artist and literary writer.