Freedom

Mai Mislang
1 min readJul 14, 2021
Photo by Rowan Heuvel on Unsplash

How do I deserve to be free

When the cause to do right I forsake?

When I choose not to carry

The cross for the country’s sake?

Blood after blood after blood

Has been shed

By those once worshipped like a god

For those they led

--

--

Mai Mislang

Former presidential speechwriter, still a musician; owns a bakery, loves her dog. Tries to write more prose than poetry. Filipina from Manila.