We were among those hundred innocent feet
wheeling through the clouds of dusts. So close
that someone shouted to stop the angry phalanx
from advancing the gates. We were young bloods then.
Brave as a collective force ululating vignettes
about homeless families, starving peasants,
weak indigents, landless tribes,
friends of disappeared and the exiled.
We stand like a hundred innocent moths
circling fearlessly around the flame. Ready
to extinguish our fates for one day of glory.
The cups ready to be filled with the bitter
after-taste of seeking the truth on the matter
of state. Of politics. Of international affairs.
We stomp them shamelessly beneath our sandals.
We ripped them off from our tattered jeans.
We print them on the plainness of black shirts.
That justice of the land is not blind and should prevail.
We debated doctrines. We fight about logic.
We push our pens. We clasp our fists.
We join the caravan. We live our days
marching vigorous in the streets chanting
the aged texts on mass struggles by the red book.
Burning effigies. Donning the placards.
We abhor dictatorship. We hated imperialism.
Like waterbombs spouting heavily against our faces.
Like the many teargases hurled against our defences.
We bled when the police beat us out of the line.
Isolated when we are thrown into prison cells.
Humiliated when subjected into torture chambers.
Discriminated when hunted down in the mountains.
We rise and made each part of our bodies as weapons.
Our mouths without strained voices.
Our eyes without biases.
Our ears without prejudice.
Our fists without cowardice.
Our hearts without fear.
This is our revolution against the world order.
And the phoenix will rise again and again
among the many moths that have died.
Resurrected and will never be silenced.
Those Sisters’ Men
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When my sisters began to marry their men,
I just stop talking to them. Eagerness
suddenly plummet into nil and I began seeing
an imaginary wall that divides me to them.
Those strangers’ hand snatching spaces,
of familiarity, never uttered a word about apologies.
Plundering the blood bond, the images of innocence
running away to far places where I cannot go… I hate them.
Suddenly somewhere appears picket fences,
territories, boundaries and cages
which were meant as a warning
not to encroach their line, their property.
And how then, for a split-second
they ruin the emotional investment
my sisters and I build relationships.
Ah, they would never understand
the weightier aspects more than
the union of two bodies to breed.
They would never understand how
my sisters and I share a lifetime-
that intimate part we found eversince
we are born, out of our mother’s womb.
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