FACELESS

Faceless!
That is the unceremonious name of
the unsung heroes of our nation,
whose memories will never be kept
in praise chants or history books,
but on the altars of anonymous worship.

Faceless!
That is what we call the unknown soldiers
who bravely dare the god of death
and are plunged into a forced marriage
between their flesh and hot, steaming bullets.

Faceless!
Those are the school teachers
who kiss love unto our erring buttocks
with strokes of the unsparing rod,
arming our minds with the weapons of
knowledge and intellectual legerity.

Faceless!
Those are the prayer-warriors
who fight our society's battle
against unseen monsters,
with divine, soul-piercing words
laced with purity and holy rage.

Faceless!
These are the weird poets
who infiltrate the subconscious of men
through the mix of harmless verbs and pro-verbs
that chamelion to agents of change.