Erle Frayne Argonza y Delago
Twas a 16th day of November when it hap
On Year Four past the new millennium’s start
Dreadful a day writ in news of world sorrows
O’ laboring scions of Filipinas diabolically felled
By verdugos’ sadistic gunfires sprayed
Upon helpless citizens treated like unwanted pests
A presidential palace denizen I was then
Among those called to aid build concord
Betwixt unionists and hacienda’s cacique-bosses
Inspired by Socrates and Lao Tzu
Dialogued we did a back-channel mode
Quaffs of soda and juice mixed wise counsel
Concord at last to bear upon the unionists
To merriment my boss and us lieutenants a-going
When gory heraldry splattered public media’s pages
As sadistic caciques called cops for aid to disperse
With nil compunction shot the toiling folks a-blaze
Turning festive moods into grim dirges
Shocked and embittered we peace builders
Could best show solidarity to martyred scions
Amid hymns of praises sung by avian choirs
Songbirds atop Makiling, Banawe, Apo boondocks
Proclaiming “honored and loved are felled scions”
They are truly human till their last breath
Emulated by youth & all
Courage fulfilled
[Philippines, 22 April 2010.]
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