KASANAG Vol.1 (Page)

38 Literary
An eye for
the vulnerable
Written by
Illustration by
Gerjalyn Bancale
John Carrell Kaamiño
A delight she is when you see her smile
A laugh so loud that carries the crowd
She is an elite with unrivaled confidence.
Truly, the crowd’s apple of the eye
She walks with grace
Greets the world with a genuine embrace
A pure and smart kind of persona.
I onced thought, it will unbined me to the
saddest trail
And now I cried.
The soldier that grow within me had
finally died
Where is the self that I used to be?
The person who can carry the bruising
reality
I smile as I reminisce about the persona
I used to live.
And I realized
A picture perfect smile I possessed
Is only a mask that hides my heaviest debts.