"Apo On the Wall" by Bj Patino

 This poem shows how a little child keeps on loitering in his strict father’s room with a picture of his father’s boss hanging on the wall. He says that the picture of Apo looks snappy and keep staring at you as though it is real which means you can imagine how powerful this Apo is being put on a wall in a room of a child’s father. The poem provides to look over what was in the past specifically in Martial law times. It gives also an idea of what kind of relationship the child and father had.The superior of a family is a father which is the child’s natural feeling is to fear as a sign of respect.This also connotes the Filipino who were afraid over the power and authority of Marcos.It is all about how power influence and public fear dominant during the time. One of the lines that really learn about this poem is about the phrase “His eyes are following me like he was that scary Jesus in the hallway saying I know, I know what you are doing” in which Ferdinand Marcos is like Jesus who ...