our sunrise..the people’s sunrise
so sail your wings to the clouds… and cry, cry if you want them to see.. die every game to be free..be proud to weAR the color that you call your own.. be strong and hold the flame for everyone to see..( light and shade by fra lippo lippi)
just recently she enjoyed singing the song "hawak-kamay" and still practicing frankie’s mcdo ad jingle.. well usha red has all grown up indeed. Been three years, since i became an intstrument of bringing her out into this seemingly-not-so easy world.. I could see myself in her, but i have to tell myself most of the time that she is not me and though she came through me she belong not to me..( khalil gibhran line hehehe) one day she have a life carve on her own desire, i could not dictate nor expect so much.. looking at her i could really say that she is indeed beautiful( not becasue kay nanay ko niya) because she really is, hers is a round face,with beautifully-black -long -curl lashes and her ohh her china eyes that paints so many emotions, a reflection of her childish curiosity.. Her papa has been counting years that in the year blah..blah.. she’ll hve her 18 debut and he is so excited and he keeps on telling me that usha could not have a boyfriend until she graduated from college.. i’ll just sigh and laugh at her father.I simply told him to just live each day with her while she is still young and she still depend on us coz when the time that she’ll be all grown up, we would have "kahati sa iyang attention".. By the way our daughter is already 3 years old, she’s still so anxious of the idea that she will be going to school na this june, a very caring ate, ultra-sweet yet ultimately demanding( she is in command) talkative, witty and soo smart, she had her baggage-full of reasons with her… Moreso, her name pala is USHA RED (other find it so difficult to spell her name correctly) it means SUNRISE is RED.. it symbolizes the struggle of the toiling masses and its aspiration that may one day genuine freedom, just peace and equality may reign in this oppressive society.. this is not a dream this would happen eventually.. ito kasi ang batas ng diyalektika, and i just hope that one day soon she would find herself in the cradle of the toiling masses join them and live with them in their struggle.
but for now let usha be the sunrise in our home…
