** 3 Red Cross Volunteers Kidnapped By Abu Sayaff Terrorist Poem by Rommel Mark Dominguez Marchan

dedicated to the 3 International Commission on the Red Cross (ICRC)
volunteers. Mary Jean Lacaba, a Filipina, the Italian and the Swiss


Switch on TV
Nothing is fresh
Rampant cruelty
News channel hits

3 ICRC volunteers
with one Filipina, my landlord's sis
From Toril Davao Philippines hails
Captived by infamous kidnappers

Arousing repeated horror
Beheading attempt if demand fails
for greedy ransom affairs
Easy millions, freed or spoil

Philippine Marines guns pointing
Far-flung Jolo, Sulu is threatening
Same innocent victims
Civilians, young boys and girls running
Safety first than school and pen

Red Cross volunteers are neutralists
Traited not as inhumaned by notorious bandits
An act provoking Abu Sayaff themselves
As cruel international terrorists

How do we escape
from this routine evil threat?
How do we preserve
Mindanao's tag - land of promise?

Time now to re-evaluate
the grass root of all conflicts
Poverty? Dogmas? Culture?
Ideology? Political? or Greedy interest?

Wait not for
another war and victims
Enough that my landlord's sister
is kidnapped by them

(may this voluntary poem can humanize the war against terror)

written a week before Mary Jean 'nene' Lacaba was released unharmed by the bandits leaving the two kidnapped foreigners and still promoting a 'no ransom policy' by the government and the Red Cross.