fun with acrostic (for Papa Dodong)

Flaviano ngan sa akong kinakusgang Papa,
Lab kung tawgon siya sa mga babaye nga niangay niya ug mga daang kaila.
Ambungan, buotan, bright ug 'macho gwapito' maong si
Virginia nakaangay niya ug over over kaayo.
Iyang bugtong pangandoy, nga kami tanan modako nga maayo,
Ang tanan iyang gibuhat dili lalim para lang gyud namo.
Niining paagiha among nakita kung unsa gayud kadako ug
Over over ang love niya para namo.

Badlong ug kasaba, nagdako mi ana,
Ang bakos sa iyang hawak,  mahadlok mi ana.
Labi na gyud kung mo-ihap siya ug Uno,
Dali-dali mi undang ug ki-at kay ug moabot ug Tres, hadlok na kaayo.
OA man paminawn, diha namo nakita ug unsa mi niya kapinangga sa
Makadaghan nga higayon nga makatilaw mi ug singhag, latos ug kasaba.
Ang iyang mga pulong daw lig-on nga mando,
Nga nahimong gabay namo hangtod sa among pagdako.

Maong nagpasalamat mi kaayo-- si ate Geegile, Eboy Ayen ug ako,
Among Papa, isog pero pinangga mi kaayo.
Cute pod siya in fairness, level 4 na sa plants versus zombies,
Ug labaw sa tanan, siya ang bugtong Papa nga molaba, mokaws, magluto, mangguna, mamanday, manghugas, tanan para namo, way makatupong sa kabuotan (bahala na ug wa nay rhyme) maong
Lab gyud namo kaayo si Papa Dodong hantud sa kahangturan. :)


It's Father's day and I dedicate this acrostic to the man who raised me up to become who I am right now. It is the first acrostic I made in our dialect and I could see that Papa would love it.


It is difficult to find the perfect words for the best man that I know in my life. I owe him a lot. All the deepest roots of my understanding of who I am and who I'm gonna be came from him and Mama. I will always be grateful that I have him as my father. I will always be grateful for the kind of love that he taught and shared to us.  The kind of love that I often misunderstood... that I never recognized until I came into maturity... that kind of love that molded me and my siblings to who we are right now. That love that has become the very foundation of our being. I love him so much. And I am so grateful to God that even when I didn't get to choose my own father, I had the best-- Papa Dodong.