"All Of Me," theme song of the teleserye of the same title
A recollection, a sad narrative
in an island, the sea, the blue mountain
almost a dirge, a life that was ebbing
away in the arms of the lover, a sad, dying smile
caught in memory
crumbling in the hollow of his hands
A beggar plies her trade in Baguio, Philippines
MARTIAL LAW AS AN ABERRATION
You are still abhorring martial law, but you let in wolves and other raiders of the national patrimony.
What song do we sing now, patriots of freedom?
The oligarchies led by the Cojuangco-Aquino business empire created this socio-economic-political structure, a kind of modern-day slavery morass where millions of Filipinos wallow in misery and poverty and suffer useless deaths, at least in the cases, and there are several, of those who eat poisonous garbage bread.
And homeless people are everywhere, especially in Manila, the loyal city of dreams, where the convicted economic plunderer Joseph Estrada reigns supreme, repeating his misdeeds again.
Yes, we gained freedom to swing your arms even where our stupid heads begin.
Indeed, martial law was an aberration, but after 1986 we have not learned anything from it because your hate and anger against the Marcoses did not go away, blinding you to the opportunities that would have made this country a model for economic development in this part of the world.
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