>In this evergreen song, “Where Have All The Flowers Gone:” (Pete Seeger), there is this verse and it goes like this…
Where have all the young girls gone?Long time passingWhere have all the young girls gone?Long time agoWhere have all the young girls gone?Taken husbands every oneWhen will they ever learn?When will they ever learn?
I can surely attest that that is not true in my country. Gosh! here in the Philippines, there are more women than men. A great percentage have not been taken husbands every one, that’s for sure.
It is very unfortunate that my Flipina “sisters” bear the brunt of a largely male dominated culture. In this rat race for survival, countless Filipinas end up in the shady and sordid lifestyle just to earn crumbs to support their siblings and aged parents back in the village.
Despite her proud boast of being a largely literate country and where Religion is the bulwark of the greater majority, it is sad that incompetent leaders and politicking and unabated criminal activities have brought undue hardship except for the privileged minority.
Over the past three decades every hope of the common Filipino has been blighted by what I have just related. It galls those who are endowed with intelligence and ability to see opportunities squandered by avaricious leaders and guardians of law and order.
As once said by an illustrious poet, “They also serve who only stand and wait” (John Milton). That’s the everyday whisper on the lips of the common folk in the Philippines.
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