stampede
this is in memory of all the people who lost and risked their lives last saturday morning for a chance of "winning" a better life from a local game show. Read more here
they risked their souls
for a few pieces of silver,
and dreams wrapped in paper.
they thought it was free,
a chance in a million,
like aiming for the moon.
but they paid in full,
in blood and broken bones
waking up in a world
bleaker than the night before.
their lives lay stranded
on littered concrete floors.
ndg.02.06.2006.4.09.p.m.
they risked their souls
for a few pieces of silver,
and dreams wrapped in paper.
they thought it was free,
a chance in a million,
like aiming for the moon.
but they paid in full,
in blood and broken bones
waking up in a world
bleaker than the night before.
their lives lay stranded
on littered concrete floors.
ndg.02.06.2006.4.09.p.m.
@ poeticnook on 2/06/2006 04:20:00 PM
1 Comments:
Life is about taking risks...
Of having the hope to achieve something better and so did these people. We are a nation of poverty. A nation where the poorest of the poor can't help but rely on their so called "luck".. Being contained in some space where abundance is lacking...though such pitiful state still has hope, as long as there are people willing to genuinely care for them and help them get out of the mold that shapes us Filipinos towards poverty.
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