Tribute To Madame Cherry Mae Poem by Susan T. Aparejo

You came in an instant daylight;
That youthful look was everyone’s alight
Thinking the same flavor’s delight
And yet YOU make everything all right.
lavish with your unselfish deeds to limelight.


You become the female Sherlock
For tending DepEd Gingoog City teachers - your flock;
You make our centuries right unblock and unlock;
Protecting teachers’ dignity from schlock
Like some brave heroes, you’re our monumental rock.


Thank you all for all that you have done.
Hard times are now turned into by gone.
All this we managed with you by our side,
you gave with love, not merely out of duty.
Upon your protection, life turns comfortably.

You’re being so completely a real hero,
For touching my mind and making me grow,
For sharing moment with you, since I met you,
For exploring me to my very core, a bravo!
for showing me the lane of leadership a glow,

How else could I become what I've become?
All your plans, hopes and even fearsome’
Put together for GCCNHS improved kingdom,
Know that I am grateful for break though in awesome,
Your hard work is mirrored now in mine, MADAME.

From you we learned the essence of transparency’
MOOE becomes loud and clear to GCCNHS teachers’ alley,
Bonuses, increment and benefits fit our wallet’
Clothing, seminar, fare allowances and service credits,
All are given in a package of love in tenets.

My salute to you Ma’am Cherry Mae
What you did for us – GCCNHS
will glow in our memory as portrait of imagery
The greatest gifts are those that cost us least:
Because for us you are beyond the description of the “ Best! ”

How would GCCHNS family ever forget?
A woman of compassion for teachers’ right illuminate,
She is a book of life, the thoughts we reap,
Only in her sound judgment we quiet sleep,
A woman of humanity in the name of ”Cherry Mae”

(Note: This poem is dedicated to Madame Cherry Mae Limbaco, Schools Division superintendent in Gingoog City, Philippines. She will leave the city for promotion comes July 2009. Tears will surely fall for her departure, but we never forget her legacy to us, the legacy of justice, fair and transparency of being a good leader. Thanks maam, You're one in a Million!)