"Wake,BAYAN"

“Wake, Bayan” is a protest poem that confronts corruption, political dynasties, and social injustice in the Philippines.
It speaks for farmers buried in debt, fishermen losing their seas, workers trapped in endless survival, and students demanding change.
The poem challenges the culture of forced resilience and blind loyalty, exposing how power protects itself while ordinary people pay the price.
But more than anger, the poem carries awakening. It reminds Filipinos that power was never meant to stay in the hands of the corrupt — it belongs to the people.
This is not a poem of destruction.
It is a poem of realization.
A call to remember.
A call to rise.