This blog’s title, My Personal Revenge, was inspired by Jackson Browne’s song from his 9th album titled World in Motion released in 1989.
Originally written by Tomas Borge, a Sandinista who was blindfolded and tortured for 18 months in Somoza’s jails and whose wife was gang-raped and murdered by soldiers in his presence. Yet, in Christianity and Revolution, Borge stated…….
"After having been brutal tortured as a prisoner,
after having a hood placed over my head for nine months,
after having been handcuffed for seven months,
I remember that when we captured these torturers I told them:
'The hour of my revenge has come:
we will not do you even the slightest harm.
You did not believe us beforehand; now you will believe us.'
That is our philosophy, our way of being."
The song as translated in English by Jose Calderon:
My personal revenge will be the right
Of our children in the schools and in the gardens
My personal revenge will be to give you
This song which has flourished without panic
My personal revenge will be to show you
The kindness in the eyes of my people
Who have always fought relentlessly in battle
And been generous and firm in victory
My personal revenge will be to tell you good morning
On a street without beggars or homeless
When instead of jailing you I suggest
You shake away the sadness there that blinds you
And when you who have applied your hands in torture
Are unable to look up at what surrounds you
My personal revenge will be to give you
These hands that once you so mistreated
But have failed to take away their tenderness
It was the people who hated you the most
When rage became the language of their song
And underneath the skin of this town today
Its heart has been scarred forevermore
It was the people who hated you the most
When rage became the language of their song
And underneath the skin of this town today
Its heart has been scarred forevermore
And underneath the skin of this town today
Red and black, its hearts been scarred Forevermore.
The righteous would agree..Sawayin nawa sila ng Panginoon...
TumugonBurahinTama po, sis. Ako man dati parang di ko mapigil ang sarili that i am expecting myself na there will come a time na "sasabog" na ako........ then ipinaunawa sa atin ang aral ukol sa....sawayin nawa sila ng Panginoon.
TumugonBurahin