Analysis of Overseas Filipino Workers
~Even just a text message~
Dedicated to: O.F.W. (Overseas Filipino Workers all around the world.)
Your Father left...
To find a work and this is his first step.
So faraway, in other nation.
For his family's salvation.
Because here in our Country,
One big problem is the salary.
This is for his family's daily needs,
Especially the tuition fees at school indeed.
The provision or monthly allowance of his kids,
Especially now that everything is so expensive.
Even just a text message,
Coming from his beloved family,
It can make him so happy.
A massage to his tired and aching body,
It can make him feel stronger, more each day.
It can put a smile on his face even if he's busy.
All of these endeavors,
Are for his loved ones' brighter future.
A better life is his dream for them to savor,
He always pray and hope to succeed not to be a failure.
Your Mother left...
To work abroad and it's hard for her to move her feet.
Thinking to be away from her children,
But she needed to go because you all know.
Your father's income is not enough,
To sustain your needs today and the coming days.
Other reason was her husband went astray,
To the house of other woman.
And caused a broken family
Then the wife raised their kids as best she could
She worked abroad and left
the kids with her mom's care
Even just a text message,
Coming from her beloved family,
It can make her so happy.
A massage to her tired and aching body,
It can make her feel stronger, more each day.
It can put a smile on her face even if she's busy.
All of these endeavors,
Are for her love ones brighter future.
A better life was her dream for them to savor,
She always pray and hope to succeed not to be a failure.
Please, don't be ashamed if your Mom's work is a Maid.
Because of its salary, your families debt was paid.
You can eat and buy pricy foods,
You can buy a nice shoes and clothes.
In a private school you were enrolled,
Above all, it's a noble and decent job dude.
Your Brother or Sister left...
His/Her beloved family that's for sure he/she will terribly missed.
Because he's/she's the only hope,
That's what your parents thought.
And there's no choice because he's/she's the eldest.
For his/her family he/she will gonna do his/her best.
So to all of his/her siblings that he/she send to school.
Don't waste his/her hardly-earned money.
Finish your studies, this is what he's/she's been asking for.
He/She will be proud and very happy,
If his/her dreams come true, he/she could not ask for more.
Don't brag with your friends that you've got plenty of money,
It's not given to you just to waste it any ways
To produce that amount, he/she exerted lots of energy,
Being an O.F.W., you can't just have easy money
To all parents out there who have poor insights
Or parents who doesn't know if they do things right or wrong
They don't value their children's hardships abroad,
Just to send them their monthly allotment.
Some Mothers play Mahjong in the neighborhood,
If the provision was delayed, you can hear the bad sentiment.
Some Fathers are busy meeting up the village Drunkards,
Or do Gambling like c*ck fighting and playing cards.
If it's only a diversion then it can't be wrong,
Sometimes, parents are not aware of their limitations
Don't ever forget to send even just a text message,
To our loved ones who work in a foreign land,
Whenever you have a mobile credit or load.
No one knows what might happen to them abroad.
We didn't know if we can still see them again in this world,
Or maybe we can see and hug them but the body was hard and cold,
And hands can no longer hold...
So don't be lazy to type and send even just the three words.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1010110 1000111010101010101 1101 1101011111 110101010 11100010 01101010 111010100 1111100101 010001011101 0010110010111 010111011010 1010110 101101100 1111110 001111001010 1111110111 11101111101110 111010 111111010 010111111110 11101101111010 1101 1101011101101 1011011010 11101101111 11011101 101110100101 10101010101 10111010 01010100 1011111111 110101 011011 1010110 101001100 1110110 001101001010 1110110111 11101101101110 111010 110111010 010110111110 11101101111010 111011111101 01111001100111 1110111 11101101 001011001 011101001011 1101101 10011001111111001 01110101 111101 01110111010 110100111101101 11111010111111 111010110 10110111111101 1111101010 1101111111111 1111111110110 1110111111101 1011011101011100 101111111010 1110111111 11011011111111 11101101001 1111110010 110110010 1001010111101100 11011010101010 11100111100101 1110001011111 0110110111010 11001111010110 110111100101 010110101011 11111101101 110111111101011 11011101110101101 0111101 111101101101011 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 3,536 |
Words | 673 |
Sentences | 49 |
Stanzas | 18 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 6, 4, 6, 4, 6, 6, 6, 4, 6, 6, 5, 2, 2, 6, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 83 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 155 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 37 |
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Submitted on August 26, 2017
Modified on April 04, 2023
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