Ma. Pamela Arellano
Michael Glenn Kho
You Will Forget Batangas
If you stay in comfort too long
You will not know
The rewarding feeling
Of passing Sir Javier’s Filipino Psychology class.
You will forget
The feeling of getting enough sleep
Because you were awake the whole night,
Transcribing.
You will forget
The gratitude
From the old lady you interviewed.
Sure, if you stay in comfort too long
You will not know the pain
Of getting a negative score in your rural research paper.
You will forget
The thirst and the heat
Of walking from one Sitio to another
Trying to look for more interviewees.
You will forget
The clucking of the roosters
at dawn, waking you up.
You will forget
Being scolded very midnight…
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