WE, THE FILIPINO CHILDREN

Our innocence and freedom was robbed during our slumber

These monstrous thieves came to disturb the silence and inflict chaos

For these monsters heart are not as pure as ours

Their eyes scream violence and hatred

Some of us woke up as orphans

For our mothers were taken for sinful pleasures

Our fathers were forced to join the rebellion and those who resisted were beheaded

And some of us never even got a chance to see the sun rise at all

We are deprived from education

For where our schools once stood; were replaced by rubbles and shards of glass

We are deprived from childhood

For the streets once used for play, are now full of fallen soldiers and bloody terrorists 

We are famished 

We are dehydrated

For all that is left are bombed buildings, barren vegetation and contaminated rivers

Yet we are hopeful that one day all of this would just end, cause all nightmares do

We will rise from the ashes like a phoenix reborn

We will make this country peaceful and full of audible laughter again

We will liberate this country from monstrous thieves

For we, the Filipino children are the last hope