OFW Chronicles: Filipinos Abroad

The dawn is breaking yet you are awake, mind won’t concede with the idea of sleeping. The bed sheet is begging mercy underneath your restless back, pillows soaking with sweat and tears. The room is silent only sigh and inhibited sobbing echoes’; walls are cold adding unsolicited sympathy. Its four o’clock in the morning, eyes tired of being consciously closed. Asking yourself tons of questions which torture your sanity, answers are hard to come by within your logic. Sometimes you opt to create an alternate reality within the realms of your intellect. The sun crawling its way in the east, the sky is like burning with spectacular array of colours. Others are waking up to prepare for yet another day while you half-awake, half-asleep forcing every move towards the bathroom, trying to muster every bit of strength left  to face another battle of your life as an OFW. At eight thirty in the morning yesterday, hardly started anything, a message from your roaming phone has broken the silenc