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Patria Marsha Teodoro Poem
Sa kanilang mga anino,
Kami’y kanilang itinago
Lagi kami ang sinusuyo
Na manatili lang sarado
Na dating walang pumapanig
Noong kami ay nalulupig
Ngunit ngayon, kami’y titindig
At sana’y kami ay marinig
At bakit naman kami matitinag?
Dahil ba kami ay babae lamang?
At bakit kami pa ang maduduwag,
Sa lupaing kami rin ang nag-silang?
Kailan pa nagging sukatan
Ang aming mga kasarian?
At ang taglay na kakayahan
Na ipagtanggol ang lipunan
Mag-dadamit, mag-hahayag ng malaya
May lakas ng loob at di nahihiya
Dahil di na nila kami madadaya
Sa pag-laban namin ng aming hustisya
Tatayo kami at titingala
Sa pag-tibay ng paniniwala
Ika’y babaeng dinadakila,
Na di na muling maalila.
PM, 2022
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Patria Marsha Teodoro Poem
You stare unto my body, and you see a woman
You’d glance at every inch, from head to toe
As if I have granted each and everyone
A ticket to their own definition
Of who I am and what’s my flaw
A seat to throw your own description
As if my being is for you to owe?
So, then I looked behind to see my disposition
Just to find out that I will never know
The bitterness of this delusion
That you find my kind who fears to lose her crown
Because you watched us flaunt this rooted frame like a gown
Now you pulled it to the length that you’ll decide
And in those thin ropes, my worth would hide
If you think I’ll be shaken, just by chopping it off the ground
Then go have at it! I’ll raise my head up as I walk around
Because
I have been a woman for a long time
From the curve of my smile
and to the arch of my back
Always am a woman, it is sublime
No, I am not screaming radical
You ought to be logical
To think that a bunch of growing silk
Could turn me into something magical?
I am a woman, more than what your eyes can see
to seek the limitless soul of infinity
to bring light to life endlessly
Now if you think my planted strings owns my femininity
Let me cut it off for you to see underneath
that this is a woman, and it’s also me
But NOT a woman that I should be
But a woman I want to be
PM, 2021
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