LABOR DAY 2010 SOLIDARITY

Erle Frayne D. Argonza
01 May 2010

Solidarity greetings to all toiling men and women of the Philippines and the world!

With glee and fulfillment I, as a fellow toiling man, express the highest appreciation for the power of labor and the fruits of all the toils of struggling workingmen & women across the millennia of human history. Truly, it is through our labor that our God-given creativity and wisdom find manifestations, galvanized as goods and services in the workplace. Nothing can ever refute such a universal fact or law about the potency of labor.

As a re-dedication to the working class movement across the planet, let me share this humble poem of mine.

REFLECTIONS ABOUT WORK
Erle Frayne Argonza y Delago
There can be
no savoring the foods
offered by Terra
without working hard for their generation;

no consumption of bounties
in torrential showers
without striving
for their production;

no recital of flowery
words about justice
without active contention
for their fruition;

no pleasant rest
of mind and body
without processing by
the sweatshops of labour;

no blissful state
of realized utopias
without rendering sufferings
from waylaid obstacles.

[Poem writ. 27 Sept, 1987, University of the Philippines, QC.]