the day is passing like a riot a cloud of people chant the jailbird's song a string of placards encircled the throng a meteoric rise in the atmosphere has reigned in the souls of many a fist....
the heart of a crowd is listening wildly to speeches and voices emphasizing a point and views that each and everybody shares a unity that binds the masses
there is one man that head the arms and bodies of this throng and he comes on strong to those who have done the nation wrong a slim and simple being seeing, seeking and wanting some changes some soothing replacement to this scourging arrangement
the sun shines through him and although wounded with scars knowing one cell to the other, he keeps the challenge in his soul and tried to reach a porch in the sun for his people, for his children and for all that will come, after him.....
For: Leandro Alejandro (Leandro Alejandro, or Lean as he was known to street parliamentarians, was an activist, a student leader and a nationalist. He was a student of the University of the Philippines, described by contemporaries as an intellectual rebel. He was killed allegedly by rightists on September 19, 1987 at the age of 27.)