Squatting In Kalinga Poem by MELVIN BANGGOLLAY

SQUATTING IN KALINGA
melvin Banggollay


Squatting in Kalinga in not sitting in squat position
While having a yoga asking divine intervention
Rather it's a tribal action of taking possessions
Employed by many in their desire and obsession
to take any land as a display of their tribal union.

it is an artistic display of their own tribal affiliation
As they stand firmed and united without hesitation
To take any land not being used or in utilization
but then even those under one's private possession
were not spared from this act of tribal intimidation.

Many have lost their lands with such act of stupidity
By those who have no heart to take others property
Specially those who were helpless being in minority
for having a tribe note among the so called malalaki
or among those like the rosters in Kalinga's locality.

It is not bad to take any kind of land or property
In our desire to give what is best to our own family
If only it is through legal means not against morality
like buying them with our own sweat and honey
rather than just taking them by force of superiority.


Whatsoever we do with the least of our brothers
Will surely return to us with even greater thunders
of posterity or pestilence as a price of our action
Therefore we must not take any others possession
Rather, be the one to share your gifts and obsession.