Piding

Once upon a time you were born In the Philippines there was no science education when you were a child When they began to offer it in your adulthood you leapt at the chance and studied harder than everyone else You learned of kingdoms and species and genes and atoms Science helped you to see the bigger world beyond You studied so well an American university paid you to keep studying with them so you left You gained mastery over the evolution of birds there but you missed home the whole time You lost your first wife and son to Science So with degree in hand you went back to your people You found that they had burned their forests and had exploded their seas So you gave a new bird to your people because now you knew how to use it to save them This was the piding And the rest is the story of Oliver Carlos