Ms. Rona C. Catubig

Ms. Rona C. Catubig

Ms. Rona C. Catubig

Ms. Rona C. Catubig

Ms. Rona C. Catubig

Ms. Rona C. Catubig

Ms. Rona C. Catubig

What is Poetry?

Ms. Rona C. Catubig

Rise Up Africa

Ms. Rona C. Catubig

AFRICA’S PLEA

by Roland Tombekai Dempster

Ms. Rona C. Catubig

I am not you –but you will not

give me a chance,will not let me be me.

Ms. Rona C. Catubig

If I were you –but you knowI am not you,Yet you will

notlet me be me.

Ms. Rona C. Catubig

You meddle, interfere

in my affairsas if they

were yoursand you were

me.

Ms. Rona C. Catubig

You are unfair, unwise

foolish to thinkthat I can be

you,talk, act

and think like you.

Ms. Rona C. Catubig

God made me me.He made you you.

For God’s sakeLet me be me.