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One of my favorite poems is IF by Rudyard Kipling. I have seen parts of it reproduced and hanged in offices, clinics and even in nurses' stations. WHAT IF "IF" is translated in the visayan dialect...

                  IF       Kung

If you can keep your head when all about you

Are losing theirs and blaming it on you

If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you

But make allowance for their doubting too

Daggan suya-an sa kalibutan Dodong. 

Paning-kamot ra imuha. 

Kung libakon ka, ayaw pang-libak balik.

Paminawa ra, kung naay kamatu-uran, akseptaha

Kung wala, pasagdi sila. 

Kinsa bay sakitan ug tiyan?

If you can wait and not be tired by waiting

Or being lied about, don't deal in lies

Or being hated,don't give way to hating

And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise

Kung but-butan ka Dodong, ayaw pamutbut pud!

Puro na nya mo but-buton!

Kung naay ga lagot nimo, es-smiley ra

Likayi ang lalis

Para dili ma adto sa pulis.

If you can dream,and not make dreams your master

If you can think, and not make thoughts your aim

If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster

And treat those two impostors just the same

Pa-ngambisyun Dodong

Ayaw lang himu-a imo ambisyon ang imo ginoo

Trabaho tuda Dodong, 

Pero ayaw himu- a ang trabaho ang imo kinabuhi

Ma-dato, ma-pobre basta malipayun...

Pyts gihapon.

If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken

Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools

Or watch the things you gave your life to broken

And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools

Kung ang gi sulti nimo tu-is tu-ison

Sulahi lang imo paminawon

Kung mawala sa imo ang tanan. 

Kayaha Dodong mo bangon!

If you can make one heap of all your winnings

And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss

And lose, and start again at your beginnings

And never breathe a word about your loss

Kung ma wala tanan tinigum nimo Dodong

Kay imo gi taya sa jueteng

Kung sa imo kapildihon, wala kay pag-basol...

Dong, tinu-oray ka na sugarol! 

If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew

To serve your turn long after they are gone

And so hold on when there is nothing in you

Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!"

Kung wala na gyud na bilin sa imo,

bisan piso pang sigarilyo

Kung mangutana ang mga ga salig sa imo

Hain na pang bugas ninyo

Ayaw nalang daghanna ug sulti Dodong,

Ingon nalang "Hold on" 

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue

Or walk with kings, nor lose the common touch,

If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you

If all men count with you, but none too much

Kung barkada nimo mga dato

Ayaw kalimti ang pobre 

Hinumdumi, ang langaw nakapatong sa kabaw

Langaw gihapon, dili kabaw 

If you can fill the unforgiving minute

With sixty seconds' worth of distance run

Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,

And - which is more - you'll be a Man, my son

Ang kalibutan ma imoha gayud  

Pero ang pinaka-importante Dodong..

MA  LALAKI NA GYUD KA!

APPIR!