For a better future
crimson tides wash the
once white satin barong
turning the innocent youth
into stains of a forgotten dream
with eyes flooded by memories
of what could've been
and at every gunpoint held
a fallacy is woven into
the very fabrics of the society
making us believe in
the backstreet accidents and
planted indications,
weeds of the those who
deem themselves significant
whilst we lay here
in the graveyard we call
our homeland
still waiting for a better promise.
Rou Reagans is a young Filipina-Australian poet taking up Human Resource Management in the Philippines. She writes in between lectures and daydreaming about getting her hair dyed blue. When not writing you can find her reading fiction novels. You can also find her on Instagram @roureagans and Twitter @rouwrites.
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