Matagoan Or Mamat-Toyan (Zone Of Life Or Death) Poem by MELVIN BANGGOLLAY

MATAGOAN or MAMAT-TOYAN
(ZONE OF LIFE OR DEATH)
Melvin Banggollay

What a sorrowful sight I have seen
men moaning with unbearable pain
As some were motionlessly lying
swimming at their own blood spilling
from bodies that were badly beaten
by a grenade's fury thrown upon them
by somebody out of his anger boiling
from having loss in a pim-pong betting
during a fiesta celebration of the city
In known as the th Matagoan festivity.

I was just about 50 meters away
When I heard a terrible explosion
from a betting crowd playing happily
then after a moment I heard screams
crying and shouting from the victims.

What an irony from the theme's festivity's
for Matagoan means a zone of life's glory
but with such act and inhuman stupidity
Some called it a Ma-mattoyan festivity
which means a zone of death's destiny.

This act of crime of a man or anybody
should be condemn by all humanity
with full force of the law and justice
for peace to reign and not just pis-it.