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Friday, July 22, 2011

Hidden Slavery

It is a disgrace

to the freedom of Mankind -

Human Trafficking!

Hidden slavery,

forsaken by our nations...

T'is like a cancer.

Let us vow

to end it.

---<--@

My Filipino compatriots -

Of the three most formidable things

that threaten the peace of our civil society*

- drugs, guns, and slavery -

the latter (primarily in the form of human trafficking)

is the one that worries me the most.

Because the first two are inanimate things

but the last one is not a thing...

Inspired by:

*this is distinct from the peace of the Republic

Wednesday, May 18, 2011

Babel

From our First Parents,
all generations draw descent;
the one race of Man...

Alas, War divides
to conquer the truths within.
Differences don't curse:

In fact, they
make us strong.
---<--@

"We must learn to live together as brothers or we will perish together as fools."

- Martin Luther King Jr. (19290115-19680404 of valor and love of Country) - servant of Jesus Christ and martyred scion of the elder Republic of the United States of America, beloved son of the one American nation and faithful servant of common humanity, vanguard of the civil rights movement, friend of freedom, friend of peace, lover of the common Man - via con Dios.

Friday, May 6, 2011

Equanimity

Do not be hasty

and in your judgments, be sure -
lest you should be judged...

Be even-minded
and in the steps of your heart,
neither rise nor fall.

Keep your pace
with God's grace.
---<--@

Monday, April 18, 2011

Old Vizconde

O grieving father!

Divested, deprived, haunted...

Restless is thy soul.

No words can express

the longing you keep inside.

Who can console thee?

God keep you,

Old Lauro.

---<--@

Justice for Old Vizconde!

Thursday, March 31, 2011

Rot

Something is rotten
in our native Philippines,
rotten to the core...

Forbearance is good
but to steal from our people
cries out to the LORD -

for Vengeance
and Justice!
---<--@

A "No" to Corruption is a "Yes" to the Republic.

Sword

If swords are evil
for virtue has ignored us,
woe to us, O LORD...

God of all virct'ry,
when Thy enemies rise up,
bind us to Thy will!

And evil
shall tremble.
---<--@

Peace is over War.

Saturday, March 19, 2011

The Good Samaritan

There was once a man
who was set upon by thieves,
and was left to die...

But this man woke up
in the care of the caring,
and so he survived.

Does color
matter here?
---<--@

Peers

We are common peers
in God's common creation,
shoulder to shoulder.

Reciprocity,
complementarity and
mutual respect.

From many,
one whole one.
---<--@

Wednesday, March 16, 2011

Sports

Sports is discipline,
the discipline of motion -
the language of life...

The medium of play,
venues for togetherness,
fostering friendships.

It's virtue
is justice.
---<--@

Wednesday, December 22, 2010

Justice

Justice is virtue
that restores all unto All:
peace unto all things.

It is not vengeful,
neither envious nor boastful -
it shows love for love -

but evil
it abhors.
---<--@

Anne's Window

My darlingest
Annelies Marie
looked out
with eyes longing for peace
from her little attic window
and saw the tyranny of war
and the suffocating
oppression
of War's ambition.

She looked out
at the looming evil
of the devouring darkness
that was marching relentlessly
across her troubled world
and like stars
looking out
of themselves
saw through
the enveloping darkness
that threatened her life
and her times
shedding her precious starlight
into our hearts.

My darlingest
believed so much
in our shared humanity
and in the
nobility
of the human being
not because
the Nazi's were consumed
by War's ambition
and her times were evil
but because her heart
was noble.

For my darlingest
Annelies Marie
loved life
and believed
in the intrinsic goodness
of all things
created by God,
seen and unseen,
and that despite
the great evil
of her times,
human hearts
were good.

War looked back at her
and saw nothing.

For God took her
and hid her
into His bosom
unto a place
upon the firmament
within Himself
long before evil saw
the secret starlight
of her undying hope
bursting from
windows within
her heart of hearts.

War looked back at her
and saw nothing
for there is no hope
in war
only death
and the darkness
of death.

War looked back at her
and saw nothing
for in the darkness
of war and sin
is also found
the crushing gravity
of it's own demise.

But goodness looked back at her
and saw
through her little attic window
her starlight smile.

And smiled back...
---<--@

Tree of Remembrance

Where does time go when the moment's passed?

Where do my thoughts disappear to when the memory yet remain?

We do not see each other by sight but why does our lives touch like this, my darlingest?

Why do our lives touch like this?

It is because of an imagined reality?

Then why is this imagination not as fleeting as those things I've quickly outgrown, those things that have escaped my bliss... to sink into the sinking of time at the end of every moment's dispersal, into oblivion, into void?

Why does the memory remain in the stillness when, in the haste and the noise of everyday, thoughts flitter here and there, as if searching for a way out of myself - into God, and into the All of you?

How does my love always find its way back to the still, small presence of you, my Anneka of my heart?

Is it my body longing for something it can never have?

Or is it our souls that overlap, my love, caught up within the eternal remembrance of the Almighty?

Was there ever any real distance between our years?

No, my beloved. Not when time is an account of the heart. For time seems distant only to those with distant hearts.

Was there ever any difference between our hopes?

Our lives interweave in the secret silence between you and I through a gossamer veil of shadow and tears, the illusion of exile time.

No, there was never any difference.

There never was.

For the tree that now grows, here at the center of my life's Eden, of the everliving waters within, is nevermore the cause of the exile of our love's dreaming.

And soon I shall awaken, our LORD being merciful and kind to me, my love, into God, and into the All of you; the verdant rest of my most abundant peace.

Thanks be to my Jesus, my most sweet and most loving Jesus, thanks be to my Christ, my All.

For it is in God that I remember you, my Miyang, always to always!

The love that endures is the love that remains...
---<--@

My Prayer for My Anne:

O FATHER of mercy and of love, in the deepest, darkest depths of despair, You have blessed me with a special friendship: The very first star in the firmament of the darkest night of my life.

You gave me Annelies Marie Frank, O LORD, as a light against despair. The first glimmer of hope that leads to faith in things everlasting and unseen.

Loving Father, thank you so much for blessing me with a friend as precious as Anne. Grant me, O LORD, I humbly pray, the love to cherish her now and forever.

AMEN.