Ronald Gadayan...Gem of Honesty
Posted on Monday, 2 May 2016
I
composed and posted the poem the day after I read about his honesty.
Politicians grabbed the limelight by making “promises” as usual, and which not
a single one materialized…
Ronald
Gadayan
…Gem of Honesty
By
Apolinario B. Villalobos
For
someone in need of money,
To
earn by dint of hard work
Should
be the chosen way,
But
those who find it not easy
To be
diligent in all they do,
Find
it hard to firmly say “no”.
In the
world we have today,
Seldom
can there be found
Those
with heart that still beat
With
love, good morals and ethics,
But
not a certain Ronald Gadayan -
Many
times proven - an honest man !
Labored
to earn since age seventeen,
All
that Ronald wanted, then
Was
help his mother honestly earn,
For he
saw her sacrifice for all their sake,
From morn
till night - a sight
That
until now, he can’t forget.
Waking
up, to God, he fervently prays
To
give him strength and he, be safe
Also
his wife, his kids, the three of them
Be
well, healthy and from danger spared,
Simple
prayer from Ronald’s heart -
With all
sincerity, and humbly said.
(Ronald Gadayan is an employee of Manila
International Airport Authority (MIAA), assigned at the Terminal 2 as building
attendant. He found a bag containing Php600,000, cash, an expensive watch,
cellphone and jewelries on September 5, 2012 at the south wing departure area
which he turned over to his superiors. Despite his meager earning that gives
him less than Php10,000 a month, he was not tempted to keep what he found. He
has three kids, ages nine, six and two years. The two elder children both go to
school. His wife is jobless. At 28, he espouses honest living deeply embedded
in his heart by his mother who brought him and his siblings, alone as a single
parent.)
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