THE HARVESTING CORN*
For two decades, you keep writing under the blue;
You begin to fade away petit á Petit
Like chalk particles.
You worked tirelessly in order to fulfill the demand
Of the professors;
I thought everyone who works deserves an incentive?
Where’s your incentive?
Where’s your compensation?
You engaged in a war with mortar and pestle;
You were grinded from inside to outside
Till you were broken into meaningless form.
I miss your essence.
*Stanza 1,line 1*
For 20 years, we keep working on earth.
*Line 2.*
As we begin to work, we advance in age and our strengths keep reducing.
*Stanza 2,line 1 and 2*
In a quest to become someone worthwhile in life, he embarked on the so called 6-3-3-4 educational system.
Getting to university which is like the final lap, he worked hard in order to graduate with a better grade.
*Stanza 3,line 1 and 2*
Although he read, he tried all his possible best, but it's like there's nothing to show for it.
*Stanza 4, line 1*
He diagnosed of a heart disease
*Line 2*
The disease started eating him up little by little till it became obvious.
*Line 3 and line 4*
He died.
The poem was actually written to honour a friend of mine that died recently