Beyond EDSA

TLB

I

The roadway is clear to travel

There's no hindrance that our eyes can see
Yet along the way none can foretell
The danger that lurks in each day
Of every nook and cranny of curvy lanes

For roadways can't always be straight

Through mazes of turns and sudden changes

In some steep and hilly forest glades

II

The uprising was real and true

People massed along the roadway

To wait for death in the afterglow

And seek solace in their little way

But death hid his face in steel mask

To gaze at people with fleeting eyes

And thus lament, powerless am I to do the task

For the Almighty decreed that no man dies

III

The joy of being inspired the muse

To sing hymns to life and freedom

And wont to proclaim the eternal clashes

Between the good and the damned

Yet in the gleaming twilight of an era

The joy of being engulfed the crowd

To chant patriotic songs with euphoria

That made the angels and devils proud

IV

Then the war machines stirred and rambled through

To strike fear in any man's heart

But the multitudes surged and threw

Their lithe bodies along the path

And in the smouldering of early summer

The swaying hot winds suddenly grew cold

Then ceased to gaze at the scented shower

Of flowers from the holy virgin's hold

V

The crumbling power began to unfold

As the uprising reached its zenith

T'was an old tale foretold

When tyranny will meet its fate

In some arbor shades at the ungodly hour

For the day of reckoning was near

As it was had been of yore

That tyrants can't reign forever

VI

The veil of night slowly been lifted

And the early dawn hovered across the land

The mighty sword that was unsheathed

Unshackled the grip of the setting sun

Over afield a cascading roar was heard

Blended with music and jaunty moves

Freed from the suffering they have endured

The masses were in celebrating mood

VII

The roadway is still clear to travel

Through its windings and turns

Yet there is a thing that unraveled

And people never seemed to learn

That in every life of a nation

A would-be tyrant will be born

To haunt the land with her delusion

And destroy the freedom won