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Sunday, December 17, 2006

a little poem

LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT

FOR MY TWO DAUGHTERS

 

I am of sound mind and body

When I wrote this simple testament

Wherein I bequeath something very precious

To my two beloved daughters

Susan and Susan...

 

I wonder why your mother named you two as such

And now it is so hard for me to

Identify correctly

To whom I am leaving

What..

But maybe she loved the name Susan soooo much

Because THAT was also her name...

 

But, both of you are precious to me

Both of you are apples of my eyes

Since I have two and

Both have served and loved me well

In this life

 

I am leaving you, Susan the first

The house in Dixon street

And to you Susan the second,

the cottage in Orillia

Both the same in equity, both have sentimental

Values to us all...

 

Who is Susan first, and who is Susan second?

 

You have to go home back to Pangasinan

I left some papers to a certain Atty. Orallo in Asingan

He will know the purpose of your visit

Which is to know your identities

So you will know, who deserves what..

 

I also stipulated that both of you should

Stay with my kumpare's house house in

Sitio Binmantay

At least for a month

So you may know where,

How, and wherefore of  your

Birth rights and responsibilities

 

At the end of the month

Atty Orallo will open that envelope

So you will know,

Who is who

 

Because the person who does not know where he/she came from

Won't ever know the place where he/she is bound for......

 

Good luck, my darlings..

This is not a joke because I love both of you

And I will be watching you

Every step of the way....

 

your DAD

ps: I LOVE YOU BOTH FOR ETERNITY....

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

This Christmas time I remember the many Christmasses I spent abroad missing home. It is very curious that it takes absence to make us appreciate our hometown.

But it is explainable, how can we miss something that's near? When I was growing up in the barrio, all we were talking was how we could get out and go to the city or abroad, and make ourselves something big.

I guess this life has its way of teaching us how to love. Christians tell us that this life is a passage to the next. Life is all about love. So, missing home when one is away might be one way of life teaching us how to love, in this case our hometown, our culture, where we come from.

It would be really nice if we can travel at the speed of light; then we can be back home, heck we can even live back in the barrio and work abroad.

I wish technology will make leaps regarding this, even not at the speed of light just even like a 2 hour travel between opposite sides of the earth.

That sure is fun. When will that happen? I believe it will, its just a matter of time.