Idealism ***** Headline Witness Poem by Rommel Mark Dominguez Marchan

your Honor

I was there
for National interfaith prayer
rally in Manila
there with phalanx of
militant aggressive group
in Quiapo
there for union protest
in Philcoa

i was there
for Alay lakad from
Commonwealth ave.
to Luneta
there when Payatas victims
shout justice in
front at QC hall
after LRT Rizal day bombing
Makati bombing

I was there for 2nd episode
of EDSA drama
to oust Erap
there again for Edsa 3
revenge
for Gloria labandera scheme
there in Mendiolla
dispersal where I lost
my knapsack
and breathed with tear gas

I was there
to witness
how local and international
photojournalists painstakingly
captured these
historical events