12 Gates of Knowing

12 Gates of Knowing
Original version (2001)
Slight Revision (2017)

Gate 1, Be Sweet;
Janus Artelius opened the door
Wanted to dance on my floor
Instead she sang 8 Days a Week
But she was so pale and so weak
She demanded me to be sweet
As I was as innocent as a sheep
Recipient of a letter-- stay as salty as you are
Demanding as she wanted me to fly so high
She left me by writing Goodbye
Plagiarized lyrics from Air Supply.

Gate 2, Be Jealous;
Charity Aid walked along my Winding Road
She came to me so gorgeous and bold
While I wanted to walk in Penny Lane
Just that so simple and plain
Popularized by the Fabulous Four
I have reached the highest score
I crossed the bridge as I stepped there
But I guessed, got my fair share
When I saw her laughing with another kid
I never begged for love or even through a bid.

Gate 3, Be Cautious;
Yankee Doodle knocked on the heaven’s gate
And she squarely walked in the very sharp blade
She smiled and sat on my lap
With a nervous heart I laughed
She kissed me goodbye and 'night in a highway
Wherein thousand eyes glanced at freeway
Southern Sons was on the run
Lovely song that gave me some fun
But I don’t want to be fried as I prayed
God is loving and good as I was spared.

Gate 4, Be Self-Reliant;
Mary Salamander with her eighteen silver teeth
A rich girl with glass shoes on her feet
I ran to my house and irritated with her eagerness
I chose my freedom than her happiness
I was so young then, wild and free
Hiding always behind the Narra tree
In their orange brick road when I saw her
My burden was unloaded then and after
The Youth mockingly sung the money song
Fate gently stood up as I could stand on my own.

Gate 5, Be Thoughtful;
My Car wore a sweat shirt tangerine
With a nice short haircut and cutest grin
She was so calm and always cool
Me as a nowhere man was so fool
Reminded me of a model in a magazine sung by the Heads
With a magic touch of a fairy’s wand, stared at my bed
With my amnesia mind I can’t remember her
As we agreed to meet at the side of a river
As we both forgot the 3 o’clock date
We remembered, sixteen years too late.

Gate 6, Be Smart;
Mary Cage hopped and hopped and hoped
In rage she wanted to tie my heart by her rope
Mary Cage was like a Mary Claire in rage
Pride and Ego were savagely waged
I saw her walking there in a mall
My heart fell but freed from the highest wall
For there was a man holding her lovely hand
When the well-tuned song played by the River band
Like A Blink of an Eye the emotion falls
And that was one of my good calls.

Gate 7, Be Brave;
Mine Baldovine was so classy
With a snow white skin and lovely
She was too high and I was too low
She was too quick and I was too slow
Mocked me by my low self-esteem
Killed me by a nightmare in my daydream
She left this damn ugly hesitant guy
The guy who did not even soar high
Too close in my sight and yet so far
In a Rod's song and in the sky like a brightest star.


Gate 8, Be Honest;
Fate Interfaith was simple and not gross
But I saw her in her house star-crossed
Too emotional, it was a bit off
Her heart was too gentle and soft
But she can yell, cry and curse
I just didn’t want to see her in her worse
But she’s demure and straight woman
Yet she was not included in my plan
She cried when I asked for “Freedom”
This was just out of sheer boredom.

Gate 9, Be Choosy;
Yucky Bootsy tripped and knocked on the floor
While I unintentionally opened the door
I didn’t need her Oh God, why?
You placed me on that dire fly
Like a drank man I never knew it
I didn’t know either when my mind went lit
Good Lord is merciful and just
Survived from the darkest hours of my past
But she was sound, kind and not bad
It was happened that I was the wrong lad.

Gate 10, Be Strong;
Running Rose was ran and ran and ran
With that she made me wan
She ran from South of Somewhere
Up to the North of Nowhere
She was afraid to show what was on her heart
That created a space-out that caused us apart
It might be her in Bishop’s passing time with train gone by
But who cares my heart was fooled by beautiful lie.

Gate 11, Be Righteous;
Ani Domini walked along the National Hero St.
So confident, with a beautiful smile so sweet
We went everyday to Bliss
Until we’ve been too greased
With her beautiful and lovely voice I fell
I forgot who I am like a lost soul in hell
Didn’t know when it was started
Didn’t know when it was ended
Discretion was the better part of valor
And righteousness was my true color.

Gate 12, Be In-love and Contented;
Just Add she made it
She summed up everything and made my life complete.
THE END.


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