Disgrasyada By Alburo for 21st Century Literature

a poem by Alburo

1. Disgrasyada By: Erlinda K. Alburo

2. That's the movie showing next street.  But so what, Inday , if they call you disgraced  because they say you're a mother but not a wife?  Someone said---a poet from somewhere---  That a rose by any name would smell as sweet. 

3. How good it will be to have a child to bring up  Who will roll you a plum-leaf cigarette  Especially a girl who will rouse you from a bad dream  and sing while darning the traces of your sweat  and if a boy he will know how to fetch water  slide down the coconut tree and let dance the bamboo pole. 

4. So there, who then is truly disgraced:  the poor mother who is not a wife  or the wife who has neither child nor husband ? 

5. DISGRASYADA   Mao kana ang pasundayag sa unahang karsada . Apan ngano man diay Inday kon mailhan kang disgrasyada kay kuno ikaw na-inahan apan dili diay asawa ? May nag- ingon baya nga taga-diin tong magbabalak nga ang rosas nga laig ngalan humot rosas gihapon ang pagkabulak

6. Kaayo ba lang nianang may anak nga gipadako nga masugo-sugo sa paglukot og lumboyng tabako labi nag babaye ka mopukaw kon ikaw gibangungot maga-awit nga manulsi sa agi sa imong singot ug kon malalaki man maantigo kanang mokalos mopadailos sa lubi ug mopasayaw sa kawayang bulos .

7. Nan, kinsa man unya ang tinuod nga disgrasyada : kadto bang na-inahan nga dili intawon asawa o ang asawang wala nay anak wala pa gyuy bana ?