I M A G I N E
N A T I O N
Intertwined Before, I had no name, Then, you came and defined me. For those times I can't go out, It is your imagination that spreads out. Before, I had no form and style, You came to shape my existence. You keep on sailing merrily together with the clouds That inhibits all your despair and doubts. Before, I had no texture, Until you chose to stay and entwined the parts of me that can be broken easily
KARREN JAY ASGAR
A Linking of Fingers Hands touched, three times; as if asking to intertwine Did I see you falter? Yet our hands fit each other, as if by design Fourth time, a nudge; is this to entice? Or merely an invitation, a reminder for what happens tonight
DANICA MAE HABLADO
Illustration by Prince Ric Emmanuel Paciente
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