Dare to question madness, valiant, ever courageous, interrogate absurdity,what you find vexatious.Never refuse to face unyielding resistance, stay true to your beliefs,remain ever consistent. If there is a price to pay for the right of knowledge,and for the use of that […]
Let’s acknowledge the realityOf caustic global inequity,Let’s look injustice in the eyeAnd carefully plot its demise.Let’s rise ever trenchant,Unwavering and consistent,Let’s lay to rest disparityFor the sake of all humanity. ~Camille Rose Castillo 2011
Allow me the autonomyOf innovative spirit,Don’t undermine potential,My purpose, don’t inhibit.Don’t hinder my endeavorsNor interrupt progression,Be mindful of my rightTo meaningful expression.Don’t try to nail my wingsUnjustly to the floor,Don’t stifle my ambitionI earnestly implore.Through […]
In my trials and tribulations,Be they however great,I’ll forever own the splendorIn the sanctity of faith.You, my precious God,Are my hope, guide and wayThroughout this realm of ruinWhere I patiently remain.You amplify my visionWhen blurred […]
Relieve me of this cruel,Subterranean passion,Or douse dispiriting reason,Cast out the angst,Heart distressed,Regain your soothing rhythm.Return to meResilience,Revoke this grim oppression,Please recallLost resolve,Compel its requisition.Don’t consign me toNor evoke malign surrender,Be wise, heart of mine,For […]
Though I clearly seeParalleling traits,Corresponding facetsAstonishingly quaint,This complex, albeit moving,Prominent connectionHolds a minute blemishWorthy of reflection.Contrast, yes there’s one,A distinction can be drawn,For you’re rarely right,While I’m never wrong!Allow me, if you will,Just one final […]
My God Almighty, high up above,Please hear my prayerFor peace, protection, and love.Although in this lifeI’ve recurrently sinned,You know where I’m goingWhere I am, where I’ve been.For I pray to you, Lord, not only in […]
While aversely obligingdecadent demandsof the reigning, endorsed affluent,an internal voice howlsinterposingly loudand insists I really shouldn’t: “pitiful, weary worker,Coerced, uncaringly ordered,and damned by upper class rules,will you ever tireof being a servile martyr,of acquiescently singing the […]
