Here where I built my name <br />My success my failure my pain <br /> <br />In an island where my dreams were built and perished <br /> <br />Pre-law studies public admin masteral <br />Collegiate debates amateur mountaineering <br />Freelance photography Christian brotherhood <br />Constitutional advocates neutral ideologist <br />impulsive emotions and human lust <br /> <br />Painful to look back <br />The idealism the struggle <br />The hunger and the lust <br /> <br />The lust that slaved my flesh <br />With horrible love <br />An erotic love <br />From suicidal woman’s heart <br /> <br />I can still hear her scream <br />Longing to captive my brain <br />To capture my name <br /> <br />I escaped empty <br />Goodbye beautiful queen city <br />Of the south <br /> <br />Goodbye dreams and pride <br />Now I keep on swallowing temporary defeats<br /><br />Rommel Mark Dominguez Marchan<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/sorrow-cebu-island-and-other-sorrows/