Frontliner ang kaybigan ko
Naglilingkod walang preno
Kontra bayrus ang g’yerang ‘to
S’ya’y bayani at idol ko.
Dedicated to my friend Dr. Ariel Jalil Ahmed Lescano and to other medical frontliners in the Philippines (especially) and elsewhere. Rough translation:
My Friend is a Frontliner
My dear friend is a frontliner
Serving, without break, no breather
Battling COVID, this war's unfair
He's hero, and I'm admirer.
The poem is in Tagalog (with borrowed English & Hispanic words) written in traditional dalit - a poem with a stanza of four lines, each line with eight syllables.
