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Alexandria M. Mordeno, 12/07/2016
But you didn’t stay long enough For my Karl Marx and Socialism. How I still dream of a classless Utopian society Where everyone gets equal opportunities, Even though I know this is practically impossible Given our society’s current situation. You didn’t stay long enough to know That if we were from different classes, One a proletariat, the other a bourgeois, I would still have chosen you. During the French Revolution I would have Waved a flag with my one hand And held yours tight with the other.
You didn’t stay long enough for my Adolf Hitler. How if I were a German and you were a Jew I would still be on the other side Of the Berlin Wall with you, Even if it meant living each day In fear of being gunned down in the street.
You didn’t stay long enough for my Ferdinand Marcos. How I would have searched for you In each and every prison camp If you suddenly disappeared without a trace one day; And if I didn’t find you Then I would be among the protesters in EDSA Shouting your name at the top of my lungs Until my throat is dry and sore.
But this isn’t the French Revolution Or the Holocaust Or Martial Law. This is the 21st Century Where boxers and actors Become senators; Where plutocracy hides In the face of democracy; Where people are unjustly shot In the pretense of achieving A safer society.
This isn’t the French Revolution Or the Holocaust Or Martial Law. This is the 21st century Where promises become excuses; Where uncertainty hides in the face of love; Where the one who was supposed to Throw away the gun Is the one behind the trigger.