How Much I Love

You ask me how much I love you

Please do not be angry

For I truly cannot tell you

You asked me to count the stars

That is how much you love me

I can but my love reaches much far

You asked me to dive beneath the ocean

That is how deep you love me

My love is deeper than the ocean floor

You asked me to stay under the desert sun

That is how hot you love me

My love burns more than its core

So, please do not ask me

How much do I love you

I have no way of telling you.

Friendship

It’s not how long people meet

Or how extraordinary the feat

It’s how synchronized their hearts beat

Friends accept no defeat

The roads to be taken by their feet

Enduring all hindrance and heat.

Lilian Dipasupil Kunimasa was born January 14, 1965, in Manila Philippines. She has worked as a retired Language Instructor, interpreter, caregiver, secretary, product promotion employee, and private therapeutic masseur. Her works have been published as poems and short story anthologies in several language translations for e-magazines, monthly magazines, and books; poems for cause anthologies in a Zimbabwean newspaper; a feature article in a Philippine newspaper; and had her works posted on different poetry web and blog sites. She has been writing poems since childhood but started on Facebook only in 2014. For her, Poetry is life and life is poetry.

Lilian Kunimasa considers herself a student/teacher with the duty to learn, inspire, guide, and motivate others to contribute to changing what is seen as normal into a better world than when she steps into it. She has always considered life as an endless journey, searching for new goals, and challenges and how she can in small ways make a difference in every path she takes. She sees humanity as one family where each one must support the other and considers poets as a voice for Truth in pursuit of Equality and proper Stewardship of nature despite the hindrances of distorted information and traditions.