Balikbayans And Ofw's Corpses Poem by Benjamin Chiu Uy

Balikbayan and OFW's Corpses

sometimes returned in these unhappystates in wooden boxes and crates the bodies of an oversea worker

unlucky sons or daughters of the Philippines who travelled far
they have gone, to the Middle East/other countries on fake/genuine passports
and fake/misleading contracts.

people riding the wave of econnomic crises to send dollars for their wives, mothers and daughter, for sons education and for a new house,

smallinvestments and retirements plans for the coming old age,

they are called balikbayans or saviors and OFW's labor force or heroes in their mother country for their dollar remitances to the countrys coffers in the midst of the widespread poverties and low incomes.

, they encountered troubles abroad, victims of assaults and homicides withbodies beaten and the women raped by theirforeign employers.

OFW'S
corpses coming home as cargoes on ships and planes.

their mothers, sisters, relatives and acquaintances wanted to know why these
women, men,

balikbayan heroes and heroine,

Came home in such an ugly unrecognizablebody state, shocking mutilatedcorpses and body parts.