The Favored Ones Poem by Philip Emmanuel Penaflor

You call yourselves learned
because you have been schooled
in the best universities of the world;
And by your titles and degrees you
appropriate unto yourselves the role
of defining what is right and wrong;
What is right is what would best
serve your interest, and that you put
into law which you yourselves made;
What is wrong is what would run
against your will and you put sanctions
or penalties to the violators of your law;
And you rob the poor of their bread
because they could not understand
your books and legal procedures;
And you raise an army to protect your
spoils under the pretext of peace;
And you mock the ignorant for not
being able to defend themselves in
their helplessness and misery;
And you cloak yourselves with
the holy robes because you
fatten the bellies of your priests;
And you call yourselves civilized
and enlightened ones!