Trapik


Dahil po sa mga berdeng
Papel na mas berde pa
Sa mga tinda naming
Mga lantang gulay,
Ibinalot ako
Ng nanay sa kahon
Papuntang Disneyland.

Biruin nyo po,
Isang linggong mahigit lang
Ng bahay-bahayan sa loob
Ng kahong pumapaypay
Ang init at sikip
Sa mga murang sikmurang
Walang laman kundi hangin,
Kinalabit na kami
Ng Disneyland?
(Ay Disneyland na pala?)
Yehey Disneyland!

Syet.

Dito po pala sa Disneyland
Nangagpila ang mga momo!
Nakahubad si Miki Maws,
Namimilit si Donald Dak,
Nanghihipo si Papay,
At manyak ang mga Seben Dwarps.
Nakakatakot po pati
Ang mga laway
Nila Gopey at Pluto
Na bumabaha sa kama
Ko't kumakalawang
Sa mga kadenang naging
Pulseras ko na noong una pang
Pagdating ni Ursula
Sa madilim kong lungga.

Naku po!
Para tuloy akong
Si Litil Mermeyd na binibingwit
Ng mga puchang momo
Ng paulit-ulit
Ng paulit-ulit
Ng paulit-ulit
Mula sa aking hawlang
Isang berdeng papel
Bawat bingwit dito po
Sa Disneyland Bar.

The above poem was inspired by the book of Mr. Armando Ang entitled: "Child Abuse: A Growing Menace." (The book is available at Central Books Glorietta 3 2nd Floor Inside Goodwill Bookstore at 500 pesos only). The author discusses child abuse by subdividing it into 14 parts such as: 1. Child Abuse at Home; 2. Child Labor; 3. Child Prostitution; 4. Child Sacrifice; 5. Child Slavery; 6. Child Soldier; 7. Drug, Tobacco, and Alcohol; 8. Child Education; 9. Juvenile Justice System; 10. Pedophilia and Homosexuality; 11. Clergy Sex Abuse; 12. Child Pornography; 13. Street Children; and (I hope I am not boring you ok?) 14. Entertainment Industry. From these 14 topics, the one that strucked me the most is the topic regarding Child Prostitution specifically child trafficking. I want to quote this paragraph from Ang's book:

"Child Trafficking for sexual exploitation is considered the worst form of child labor anywhere in the world. In fact, it is one of the fastest growing business in the world, especially in the developing countries because these children are desperate, cheap, and readily available."

It's really shocking that children as young as 12 is for sale; or traffickers just offer the parents money and 'promises' of education for the girls or a new skill or good paying job. Once they are taken out of the homes, they are brought to faraway places and even out of the country and sold to pimps in brothels, bars, restaurants, massage parlors and other sex businesses. Once they are in the brothels, the adolescent girls are kept locked up until the first customer buys their virginity for approximately $500. Every sex from her first customer makes her price depreciate of about $2. There are also instances that the owner of the child will divirginize her first before selling it to pimps. Sounds cruel huh? But this is real shit; and we must be really aware that it is indeed happening.

What if the child refuses to a crook to become prostitutes? Well, learn the techniques. They will torture the child and keep in captivity for a time until she willingly become prostitutes. Now what are these tortures that I am talking about? These are beatings, threatening with throwing acid on her face, locking up chained in a room and starved until her resistance wanes; also are electric shocks, and other brutal tortures that could lead to death.

Tragic.

Now these tragic things inspired me of writing a poem to share the sad fate of those abused children neglected of their rights to have better lives to other bloggers and surfers of the world . I want you guys to be really aware about their situation and help them if you have a way of doing so. We must find a way to help those abused children specifically those of Asia like the Philippines because it is from these countries poverty is common and a good shit source of the most cheap and highly available stock of innocent lives.

By the way, according to Progress of Nation 1995 Report to the UNICEF, the Philippines is fourth in the source of child sex trafficking in the world.