<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=492003" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Petite</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I met this petite lady</div><div style="margin:10px 0">she was still on her second year<br>of a nursing course<br>when her aunt retired as domestic helper<br>in bakau</div><div style="margin:10px 0">she had to take over<br>the employer paid for her passport and documentation</div><div style="margin:10px 0">she works there for two years<br>vacuuming carpets<br>washing dishes<br>dusting off walls and windows<br>taking care of a baby<br>and sometimes cooks for visitors</div><div style="margin:10px 0">she is round<br>and will do everything just to earn<br>her money<br>and please her parents<br>back home</div><div style="margin:10px 0">she is 25, too young to be a family bread<br>winner<br>and an export labor<br>a heroine for another<br>locally written novel</div><div style="margin:10px 0">she has her boyfriend back in mandaue waiting<br>but he could not meet her at the airport</div><div style="margin:10px 0">her parents do not want her to marry<br>the jobless<br>Pinoy</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'home for good', she says when she bids us<br>goodbye</div><div style="margin:10px 0">deep inside me<br>i wish her independence</div><div style="margin:10px 0">i know that happiness<br>is too elusive</div><div style="margin:10px 0">but anyway i wish her that<br>too</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Ric+S.+Bastasa">Ric S. Bastasa</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=492003" data-title="Petite de Ric S. Bastasa" data-description="I met this petite lady she was still on her second year of a nursing course when her aunt retired as domestic helper in bakau she had to take over the employer paid for her passport and documentation she works there for two years vacuuming carp..."></div> </div> </div>

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