The Fallen Still Stand with Us
BY MALAYA AREVALO
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there is a whisper of memories rising in
the fields,
the earth wet, warm with tears,
names rambling in the shivering hollow of
bullet shells,
something is certainly swelling,
the furious stirring of want,
the clamoring grumble of discontent,
we the farmers and workers;
landless and displaced;
widowed and fatherless;
beaten and disappeared;
we are all the children of oppression,
the offspring of resistance,
birthed from the bloody womb of history,
thrown like rags by the hands of
exploitation.
but we built their machines screw by screw
and gave height to their skyscrapers;
we learned the land from mountain to shore
and fattened it with harvest.
we are not easily dismissed.
we are not weeds to be uprooted.
they try to silence us, call us terrorists
rain pesticide and grenades over our
picket lines
throw us in cells and charge us with lies
they try to kill us, slay our leaders
because they called the world their home
took the poor for their siblings,
gathered the hungry and tilled the land
with them,
shouldered their burdens
and crowded the streets of the greedy
but we are not afraid
our voices still thundering,
our demands blazing like torches,
pushing back the shadow of repression,
we are not afraid
we are a crescendo of voices from field to
factory
screaming for justice
we, children of oppression,
offspring of resistance,
on whose backs the heel of state terrorism
tramples
we call the world our home,
take the poor for our siblings,
crowd the streets with our demands blazing
like torches,
we are not afraid
because the fallen still stand with us,
because the dead still live in the
struggle.
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An Mga Martir
Padayon nga Anhi Pa ha Aton
WARAY
TRANSLATION BY A. G. LAGUNZAD
nagpapahinumdum an huring han kauumhan,
bikho ngan nguyngoy an naghuhulos han
katunaan,
samtang ginlilitaniya han mga punglo an
ira mga ngaran,
tiburuto na an kaburusdan,
an tim-os nga pangandoy han katadungan,
naagurok ha tiyan an kawarayan,
mga parag-uma ngan mga trabahador kita;
waray tuna ngan waray puruy-anan;
ginbalo ngan gin-ilo,
ginsakit ngan ginhikawan;
igin-anak kita han katilingban nga
matiyupion,
mga binhi han pakigbisog nga mabayanihon,
iginbuswak ha tagu-angkan han kasaysayan,
ginwaklit han mga kamot nga matalumpiguson!
tikang ha matag-turnilyo, an ira makina
ginmugna naton
an ira hagtaas nga bablay, ginpanday han
at mga butkon;
kilala nat an katunaan tikang ha
kabubkiran ngathon ha baybayon
nga aton ginpatambok pinaagi han at
pagguol.
diri kita layon-layon nga magpapabantad.
diri kita kabanwaan nga ha ira
magpapagabot.
tuyo nira kita pamingawon, ginnomrahan
kita nga terorista
ginpauranan hin hilo ngan granada ha at
mga protesta
ginsulod ha karsel hin buwa-buwa la nga
mga kiha
tuyo nira kita ubuson, an at mga lideres
ira panmatayon,
tungod kay at gintawag an kalibutan nga at
urukyan
ngan an mga kablas ginkilala ta nga at
kabugtuan,
at gintirok an mga gin-gugutom, urusa nga
gin-uma an kawanangan,
ginsugbong an ira pag-antos, ginpuno an
kakarsadahan.
lugaring diri kita mapatarhog
at mga tingog padayon nga magdadahunog,
at mga hingyap naglalamrag sugad hin
dugalwong,
pagpara kanan panalumpigos mga lambong,
diri kita mahahadlok
kay an at mga tingog nga nag-aaningal
tikang ha kauumhan ngadto ha mga pabrika,
ig-guguliat an katadungan
kita nga igin-anak han katilingban nga
matiyupion,
mga binhi kita han pakigbisog nga
mabayanihon,
kanay bungkog gintatamakan han kanan
estado kamadarahog
an kalibutan amo an aton urukyan,
an mga kablas in aton kabugtuan,
hasugon ta an kadalanan dara mga hingyap
han kalamragan,
diri kita bisan san-o mahahadlok
kay an mga nagkawara padayon nga aanhi
kaburunyog naton,
kay an mga martir padayon nga buhi dinhi
han aton pakigbisog.
Arevalo is a member of the Committee for
Human Rights in the Philippines (CHRP). Lagunzad is a member of
Katungod-Sinirangan Bisayas, the Eastern Visayas chapter of Karapatan
(Alliance for the Advancement of People’s Rights).
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