BISAYA ENGLISH: PROSE AND POEMS EVERY DAY

           

 Steal life           

 By JC Nigado

                                                                                   

A thief is always a thief

Ignoble in life and in death;                                              

And final sleep is hard to find.                             

He steals a grave strife,                                         

Alone clothed or in cahoots --                              

The mud thieving never ends                              

Congenital thief of decay.                                     

Indecency reigns supreme,                                  

When justice can be as ugly                                

As crime, if not uglier.                                                                                

Electra’s hallmark of shame                                 

Grasped by Gloria’s Nine;                                     

Brazen corruption and deceit --                            

Marcos’s legacy of revenge.                                             

No sense fretting about One’s

Absence of right or wrong --

That betrays the Populist scheme,

Tracing the Nationalsozialist.

Time to rise, to engage anew

And break sob sympathies,

Against the dread of violence.

To bury outrage in disgust,

Upon the skin of protest,

And in the heart of fury.

The New Society decomposes

Into Federal change coming --

New dress for same old trick,

The tyrant’s kin clothing.

Behold the martial law wake

Disorders the youngling swell --

And work a better soil to grow.

Saturday, 12 November 2016

Tagurabong City, Philippines