Like Lala Land

Say you love me to my face

I need it more than your embrace

Want to feel burning flames

When you say my name

'Cause I don't want to fall in love

If you don't wanna try

But all that I've been thinking of

Is maybe that you might

And babe, it looks as though

We're running out of words to say

And love's floating away

Won't you stay...

Kres and Nat (Sonnet 18)

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?

Thou art more lovely and more temperate:

Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,

And summer's lease hath all too short a date;

Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,

And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;

And every fair from fair sometime declines,

By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd;



But thy eternal summer shall not fade,

Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st;

Nor shall death brag thou wander'st in his shadel

When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st:

So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,

So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

--W. Shakespeare

Location: El Nido Resorts
Photos: Mayad Studios

My Favorite Duet

If I hold my hand on my heart
Will you come back to the window
If I lay down here on the green, green grass
Will you stay away, my single?

If you speak I will stare
As your breath hangs still in the midnight air
And I'll try to hang my hat before it disappears
We swinging in slow motion
We swinging in slow motion

If I lock us here in the valley
Will you dance on the stage for me alone?
With the curtains drawn, the lights are on, the humour
Will you lay, if you do, we come so wreckless

When you speak, there's a glare
Of your breath reflecting in the ballroom air
And I'll try to hang my hat before it disappears
You're moving so slow motion
Moving so slow motion

Greg and Shay (Sonnet 116)

Let me not to the marriage of true minds

Admit impediments. Love is not love

Which alters when it alteration finds,

Or bends with the remover to remove:

O, no! is is an ever-fixed mark,

That looks on tempests and is never shaken;

It is the star to every wandering bark,

Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.

Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks

Within his bending sickle's compass come,

Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,

But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

If this be error and upon me proved, 

I never writ, nor no man ever loved.

--W. Shakespeare

Location: El Nido Resorts
Photos: Manny and April Pulido

Falling Like the Stars

I swear to God, when I come home
I'm gonna hold you so close
I swear to God, when I come home
I'll never let go
Like a river, I flow
To the ocean, I know
You pull me close, guiding me home

And I need you to know that we're fallin' so fast
We're fallin' like the stars, fallin' in love
And I'm not scared to say those words with you, I'm safe
We're fallin' like the stars, we're fallin' in love

I swear to God, every day
He won't take you away
'Cause without you, babe, I lose my way

Oh, I'm in love

Seph and Chris (Sonnet 11)

I crave your mouth, your voice, your hair.



Silent and starving, I prowl through the streets.



Bread does not nourish me, dawn disrupts me, all day



I hunt for the liquid measure of your steps.



I hunger for your sleek laugh,



your hands the color of a savage harvest,



hunger for the pale stones of your fingernails,



I want to eat your skin like a whole almond.



I want to eat the sunbeam flaring in your lovely body,



the sovereign nose of your arrogant face,



I want to eat the fleeting shade of your lashes,



and I pace around hungry, sniffing the twilight,

hunting for you, for your hot heart,



like a puma in the barrens of Quitratue.



--Pablo Neruda

Location: El Nido Resorts
Photos: Guj Tungpalan