(Another OFW comes home in a coffin, a news item)
In another city, a countryman dies.
A woman caregiver, the wires tell
In words circuituous and fanciful
You never see the dire days of her
Death. It is fall here as you imagine
The delayed lamentations
Of children, mother and kin,
The same scene haunting you so
In your mortal dreams. It is lifted
From Filipinas, the film and fiction,
A fact for overseas workers, this lady
Dying with her fears. She leaps
To her end, she is raped of her song,
Robbed in daylights coming in low
And late, the way the amo came in
To her with the lust of evenings
Named and unnamed. Another Filipina
Dies, another hope comes alive
Sparkling in the deep dark
Of stolen secrets, useless loves.
Aurelio S. Agcaoili
Torrance, CA
2004
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