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_"I walk a lonely road, the only one that I have ever known. Don't know where it goes but it's home to me and I walk alone."_ - Boulevard Of Broken Dreams

I was scouring my feed one day when I came across @jazzhero's heart tugging, well-nuanced and cleverly-written Tagalog poem titled Tagpuan. _Tagpuan_ means _rendevous_ or _meeting place_, and his poem was an entry to a word poetry challenge of that theme. I was at once captivated by its rhyming and nuanced word play as the hopeful, almost wistful meaning of the poem was slowly unraveled. Starting off in a bitter and regretful tone in the first major stanzas, he managed to make both (somber) tones "meet" in a hopeful reconciliation at the ending stanzas both in a literal and figurative way. An excellent wordplay and melding of ideas in the ending parts showed that combined negative tones can form positive vibes, but would translate to negative meanings if read or taken separately independent of one another. _"Rendezvous"_ is a humble English translation of @jazzhero's original Tagalog poem. I enjoyed translating it to English because the original version gave an encouraging and solid start. But there are some beautifully profound Tagalog words that I found hard to translate or find a counterpart in English, I hope this translation captured the semantics, concept and meaning of the original without much loss of context. Thank you @jazzhero for encouraging me to post this fan-made English translation of your poem. This is a tribute for your 10-km journey 😉 ## An English Fan Translation # Rendezvous (Tagpuan) **Many times I've walked the 10-kilometer road Footfalls heavy, I'm enticed to expire and unload I will endure if somewhere, joy awaits But always you— Many times I find an empty place** **Tears flowed in our promised place For we ended up parting ways Who gave the verdict and judged what should not? It seems that love be tainted, be for naught Our promised place— I long to forget** **This long and lonely road I will endure with eyes closed While wailing memories usher you back Your words etched forever in the back of my mind Sowed bitter anger that broiled my heart stark** **I journey back to our days of yore And the Present brought about by loneliness Seems like fate that hearts collide and then break, explore That we parted forever must be a kindness Do not show in our promised place, I implore** **Many times I've walked** _This long and lonely road_ **Some hundred miles** _I can trudge with eyes closed_ **The weight of each footfall** _Ushers you back to me_ **I want to give up** _The wailing memory_ **I can endure if** _Your words I comprehend_ **A happiness is promised,** _will never end_ **You always never failed** _To sow in my heart_ **An empty rendezvous** _of anger and pain_ **In our promised place**, _Recall the days of yore_ **Tears flowed** _For joy traveled with us forevermore_ **We wounded up** _In this Present brought_ **By the end** _Of bitter loneliness_ **Who would have thought?** _Seems like Fate dictated_ **And decided** _Never two hearts part_ **Seems like never** _It was good that we walked apart_ **Let love be pure,** _forever_ **In our sacred place I,** _In our rendezvous you,_ **Hope we** _Will not_ **Forget** _To visit_ -translated by @raiserxn 2018/06/29

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