(This picture of a cute kid here is from Google Images. This kid though does not have any relation to the character/s in the poem. This is but for purely illustration purposes. After all the kid looks very lovely.)
Was He happy?
By Denver Ejem Torres
(for Fr. Jorge Hofileña, S.J.)
Was He happy?
When you were naughty
Or lazy,
Silly
Telling lies
About the nothing you see in the skies.
Did you ask, was He happy?
Or were you happy?
Did you? When you picked on Sam
And shouted at your friend, “Damn
You blunt-head Sam!
Was He happy even a gram?
When you left the Jam bottle
Open and uncovered near the boiling kettle.
You were always told not to but you repeated still about zillion times
So frequent and as regular as the wind bullying the chimes
You replied: I cannot hear you Mom.
Ham? Plum? Drum? Whatever!
While saying in hum, tell it to the spider
Mom! And do your homework after
Yeah later!
Did you ask, was He up there happy?
Did you Marky?
Note: This poem was written few semesters ago particularly on the time when I took English 220 or the Children’s Literature at Xavier University. This poem for children I dedicate to my ever youthful at heart teacher, Fr. Jorge Hofileña, S.J. Fr. Jorge is my Kindergarten and Grade School principal and later became my professor for Children’s Literature.
