Poetry is one such literature only the gifted could craft and a Filipina domestic worker, provided with an enabling environment to chart her own hobbies and interests has done so. Five years in the UAE, Ester Vargas-Castillo who earned her Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from the leading city government-run Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila (City University of Manila), rose up the ranks and became an accounts executive at the appliance parts supplier Sharp Philippines Corporation within a decade, and had entrepreneurial skills honed in the restaurant sector back home, launched recently her “Bireterang Makata.”