Go Ahead!

We’ll Pray No More At Gethsemane No More Will I Pay You A Visit

Go Ahead!

(Poem)

(“It’s better to die with honor than to live in shame.” — Dr. Jose P. Rizal)

grinning is the gun’s mouth

to those whose conscience

is blemished by evil and greed

go ahead, go ahead…

put inside your mouth

the cold iron barrel

or point it to your forehead

or where your evil heart is

smiling is the trigger

at the hands that plundered

silver and gold

of a nation long devoid

of glory and happiness

of a country stunted by woes

castrated by the cohorts of mammon

and rulers dancing the rigodon.

go ahead, go ahead…

passionately kiss

the protruding gun’s clit

let the slaves hear

the bullets’ joyful shouts

let your brain and skull explode

let your breast and heart bleed

and wash with your squirting blood

the face benumbed by slaps

and blows of stolen wealth

maybe your tainted honor

would be cleansed

by the drops of your blood

on the yellowish thirsty grass

maybe for a while the sun’s rays

would even shower you with flowers

and thousands of fireflies and stars

fervently would be praying and twinkling

on nights of your lavish wakes.

go ahead, go ahead…

kiss hard the gun’s lips

caress-play-press

the protruding clit

let tragedy’s honor end

the darkness lingering shame

go ahead, go ahead…

don’t hesitate anymore

your tarnished honor would rejoice

once you end your gluttonous life

we’ll even graciously decorate

with wreaths of roses and orchids

your waiting coffin and grave

for the memory and peace

of your ice-cold cadaver

yet, we, the living dead

has long been entombed in the world

of unbearable suffering and grief

but with the sudden departure

of unprincipled mammals like you

reincarnated would be our hopes

and we the wretched of the earth

would vigorously pursue

our sacred bloody struggle

through the pitch-dark nights

till the moon and the stars

shine brilliantly

on our forsaken land

till we feel finally

the caressing relaxing wind

on our bodies and limbs

as the nation is

gloriously metamorphosing.