A WRITER OF CONSCIENCE

     It is conscience that guarantees freedom to write about situations in the social milieu. The writer of conscience is, therefore, like the apolitical leader, privy even to the smallest details in the scheme of things. After all, he or she creates the reality and model of what society should be.

      Lord of Hosts, remove from us this political curse that has scattered us in a million islands of hopelessness and despair. Give justice to the journalists and men and women of conscience who perished at the hands of Mindanao beasts and barbarians.