This World.........Is Floody Poem by RIC BASTASA

i

in cagayan de oro
cars float on the flooded
parking area of the mall
and the people watch on
the higher floor
wondering what's up with
this world
for this is the first time
that this happened

the cars look like toys
taken away by the murky
water towards the sea

ii

in Manukan the farmer is
taking his pig out of the water
the chickens fly away to
the higher land
the houses though tied with
a rope finaly give up with
the rage of the waters

the wife of the farmer wonders
what's up with this world
this is the first time that this
is happening in their place

iii

in Roxas the people were rescued
by boats from the high waters
which already went above the rooftops
they too wonder what is going with
this world for this is the first
time that this really happened?

iv

now i too wonder and ask if global warming
is really fictitious?

last night we were not able to cross the
road with such a flood.
First time too for such a road to become
impassable.

No longer impossible. Really.
And i too wonder. What is up with this world?