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Woe to Me

To us who might need introspection.

If I am indifferent
A dire situation is evident
Dishonesty I don’t resent
To anomalies I consent
Woe to me
 
If I accept some favoring
To keep me from resisting
Some vile activity
Menacing  my community
Woe to me
 
If I look the other way
I’m related in some way
To the brazen perpetrator
The sinister operator
Woe to me
 
If I am not troubled
When I see or I’m told
That peoples’ precious money
Is plundered by the greedy
Woe to me.
 
If I choose to sell my soul
Just to achieve my own goal
Knowing some may suffer
Deprive them of their fair share
Woe to me.
 
If I offer grease money
To an agent of bureaucracy
In exchange for the privilege
Of a competitive edge
Woe to me.
 
If I see my community
In the throes of poverty
In unspeakable misery
Yet I’m not unhappy
Woe to me
 
If I don’t act with urgency
Honestly and sincerely
To help combat avarice
And selfishness and malice
Woe to me
 
If I assign the blame
I’ve done wrong just the same
As if it’s not shared frailty
Sin of omission not a reality
Woe to me.
 
If I have not known before
It’s perfect love of neighbor
—Till now I can’t discern —
Community affairs is my concern
Woe to me.
 
It is high time I admit
I have my share of the guilt
Evil things I must defeat
“woe to me” I need not repeat!
 
Let the future be not distant
When goodness be triumphant.
Let good things be abundant.
Make “Woe to Me”  irrelevant!
 
26 Oct 2015
© 2015 Benjamin G. Sangalang

(2015)

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