POLICEMAN
Erle Frayne Argonza y Delago
Policeman! Throngs of multitudes are
Waiting for your return to civility!
On account of the erosion of your image
As a reliable enforcer of statutes
By your recalcitrant engagements in
Extortions and rackets and every condemnable
Act that are well perceived by the
periscopic oculars
Of the consummate public;
Come home, policeman! Come home
To the moral niche of civility!
For to extract money from laboring motorists
Traders and pedlars who may no more
Be better than the poorest fellows
Of yours whose every cent that you
Embezzle will accrue to the rupture
Of the noblest dignity;
Come home, policeman! Come home
To the powerhouse of civility!
For to bust striking workingment or to
Train guns on dissenting marchers or to
Equate to criminal acts those that are
Worthy of appreciation as they are
Motivated by desires for justice
Will cost you your sweet acceptance
By the same people whom you ought to
protect;
Come home, policeman! Come home to
The sanctuary of civility!
People are surely waiting for you
Not excluding the gunslinging predators
Who are out to snatch your life
For your treachery and malevolence.
[Writ. 06 June, AUF, Angeles City, Pampanga]
