tiiiiiiiired.

Just got back home. Have decided that today is a weird day. Apparently, I also found about my bloodthirsty side. Huh.

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( people who find dissecting animals unethical/disgusting/etc. should skip this part )

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The English block will be performing an adaptation thingamabum tomorrow. Joy. The theme is "Filipino Poetry in English," and the poem we chose is Angela Manalang-Gloria's Soledad.

It'll be the best performance ever. REALLY, IT WILL. Because we are the best Merit English block!!! Or not.

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Soledad
Angela Manalang-Gloria

It was a sacrilege, the neighbors cried,
The way she shattered every mullioned pane
To let the firebrand in. They tried in vain
To understand how one so carved from pride,
And glassed in dream could have so flung aside
Her graven days, or why she dared profane
The bread and wine of life for one insane
Moment with him. The scandal never died.

But no one guessed that loveliness would claim
Her soul's cathedral, burned by his desires.
Or that he left her aureoled in flame...
And seeing nothing but her blackened spires,
The town condemned this girl who loved too well
And found her heaven in the depths of hell.