Blamed for Relation

By: Toni Gwyneth Boluso

A bubble popped my slumber away

As the morning sky smiled on my way
Though the first step down the stairs had its bounce
The next one drops and felt like a rouse
The day just started but the dream was about to end
As the TV announced a nightmare about to commend

And you know how that ends

It would not have bore much pain

If not for the chaos starting with it’s reign
The country was in all airs for the world to see
For even my clients to fear and reach out to me
“I’m sorry” but were they really sorry for it all?
To blame me for the dullness of our people?

“I don’t want to be related to you” Is it because of my race?

That had already been tarnished as blockheads to your face?
Despite the fact that I did not wish for our nation to be downgraded
But to the outsiders I have already been far down, worthy to be degraded
Because the abyss doesn’t stop with losing support and income
As I was threatened, humiliated, bullied until I was rock bottom

Blamed. They blamed me.

The globe has frowned to the gullibility of the Filipino

Regaining international trust was like walking to a volcano
For fears we pray that the nightmare’s finale would come
Where it was all a dream and we would be welcomed
Yet the disappointment in the outsiders’ words continue to ring
Bringing injustice, agony, and torment to our posting

Despite the scene being less hectic, I continue to fear

As not once not twice I have been mistreated, this I have to bear
Because it still is unsafe, for me, a child born in the pearl of the orient
To speak highly of myself on the global scene without being forced to repent
Repent for what? What should I be repenting for?
When I am but a worker trying to get by within this horror?

Our voices are merely echoes of the minority

But for once, we hope to be part of the solidarity.
Pray tell, the voices of revolt would increase
So that either the world or the authority wouldn’t miss
The freelancers who work to the bone behind a screen
For a mass audience that is delusioned by what has already been