Quiz Be by M.A. Cenzon (June 2006)

You are…
but you are not yet…
what you should be.
What you should be is not yet.
What you should be is not something you invent but only discover.
Yet…it is something that you determine
because you must want it in order to become it.
Now…you will only be it by becoming it…
However…you can only become it if
you know it and act on it.
You become what you still are not
by thinking through things
as a first step.
Then, by acting through your personal actions to increasingly and competently albeit gradually become what you really
ought to be.

Uran

Dapat may laog na saaga
Kung dai pa pano na?
Ang ebalwasyon kan thesis ta
Hudyan ng maray maihahabol pa?

Baha

Sana magpundo na ang uran
Ta sa thesis kami nauudyan
Iuragan na ako ngunyan
Sakong kalag gusto ng bayaan
Dikit pang pang-uuyam
Ta ako mapuon ng maglamlam

Bumabagabag

Patapos na ang araw
Ngunit ito pa rin ang natatanaw
Dito sa mundong ibabaw
Ano ba ang dapat na igalaw?
Isip ba o puso ang dapat bumatingaw?
Dahil sa pagkalito’y napapasigaw
Kailan kaya ang sagot lilitaw?

Chismosa

Maikubli man sa dilim
Alam pa rin ang lihim
Na bumabagabag sa damdamin
Sa mukha mong maasim
Kaya ‘wag ng mag-alanganin
Kundi sa akin ay sabihin
At ika’y aking didinggin
Kundi ika’y di ko patutulugin