Total Pageviews

Search This Blog

Wednesday, March 16, 2016

Play Dead!

Play Dead!
by Melchor F. Cichon
March 16, 2016

You must
Play dead!
At all times!
Never move your lips
Nor speak anything
Against any person
In authority.
Nothing!
Allow all condemnations
And unfounded allegations
To penetrate your hearts.
Always!
Never see the directions
Of the winds
Nor feel their passing.
Never!
Never
Raise your closed fists.
Never!
And never, never report
Any corruption
Nor any overpricing
To anybody,
But to your self
Only.
And lastly,
Never ask shy
You must always play
Dead.
Never!

Is this the mind
And heart
And arms of Oblation?
And the spirits
Of Diwata ng Dagat?
Is this the spirit
Of Rizal and Bonifacio?
Of Ninoy Aquino?
Of Lean Alejandro?

Play dead!

But what will I tell
My children's grandchildren
When they ask me:
"Why did you play dead
When you were alive?
Alive?


No comments: