Library:The Guerilla is Like a Poet

The Guerilla is Like a Poet
Jose Maria Sison, author.
Written by	Jose Maria Sison
Type	Poem

1.

The Guerilla is like a poet

Keen to the rustle of leaves

The break of twigs

The ripples of the river

The smell of fire

And the ashes of departure.

2.

The guerilla is like a poet.

He has merged with the trees

The bushes and the rocks

Ambiguous but precise

Well-versed on the law of motion

And master of myriad images.

3.

The guerilla is like a poet.

Enrhymed with nature

The subtle rhythm of the greenery

The inner silence, the outer innocence

The steel tensile in-grace

That ensnares the enemy.

4.

The guerilla is like a poet.

He moves with the green brown multitude

In bush burning with red flowers

That crown and hearten all

Swarming the terrain as a flood

Marching at last against the stronghold.

5.

An endless movement of strength

Behold the protracted theme:

The people’s epic, the people’s war.