VOTERS, WAKE UP!

A DASANG (Hey Poem)for my Kababayans and other nationalities, who are about to vote for their government officials.



VOTERS, WAKE UP!

A blot of an ink on a boxed paper board;
A hit of that screen with names that we know,
An effort from us with hope that it would
Better the globe; changed rotting world.

One year plus three, a term to behold!
Wrote on the board what’s good for the world.
Dropped in a box & off we then go
Each one’s routine. Then, hope that duty done
Will, one day, translate to what we were told.

But hey!
Don’t hibernate! Let us do our part!

Hey!
As eagle’s eyes, please be sharp and smart!

Hey!
With puppy’s ears, let’s be active part.
What’s being done to the world we entrust?

Leaders of the pack are ordinary men.
They have the will and dyadic swell.
Off flew the good once platform’s bestowed;
Soon bad would flow if no one would crow.

Soar to the world! See how they perform.
First year o’erflows with peaches and cream;
Following months served with decaying fruit…
Good to the cronies; bad to those who can’t be reached
With the magic wand of the elected!

But hey!
It is ‘them’ fault? Or it’s ‘us’ to blame!

Hey!
We put them there! And we sleep and dream!


Hey!
The bed of roses would slip so fast…
Then we’re awake, we cried for a failed task!

We muster the disgruntled; we marched to the street.
To the leaders, we’re roaches to be quashed and contained.
We joined forces to startle and threaten
Wishing for more strength! But alas! ‘twas hard to gain.

Many of us would raise our hands up.
Others would show thumbs down for the lame.
The herd disoriented! Others jumped off! Some were maimed!
Those voices so strong before…now just whispers of dying men.

But hey!
It’s not the end! The full term will come!
Let’s educate every man this time!
Let’s cast our vote wisely mark for those
Candidates, who have brains and brawns…
Morals pleasing to God and not just to men!

(c) edmund melig industan, 2009