<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=493531" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Taludoy</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">he last saw me when i was <br>four years old, barely able to walk from<br>a rare disease, <br>he was father's side kick<br>in the farm where flood rises<br>and they would have to use<br>boats to plant the rice.<br>he couldn't believe how i have become<br>so unlike of myself as a boy, <br>i have a big body now, and speaks<br>too fluently their own language, <br>father spoke their language<br>from the heart<br>but he was so cruel then<br>beating him with<br>a bamboo stick, <br>he did not cry though as<br>expected from a brave brown native<br>of the subanen tribe<br>known for their resilience.<br>Uncle Peping wants him evicted<br>and he has nowhere to go<br>only this land that his father<br>entrusted to him as a tenant<br>of the third generation.<br>i said he cannot leave just like that<br>there is a law<br>between us, from where i started as<br>a boy with a sense of <br>charity and <br>indebtedness of the past.<br>He taught me how to ride<br>the buffalo and <br>then he let me go fall<br>into the river<br>and swim<br>all by myself, alone unafraid<br>about the mythical<br>child-eating crocodile.<br>Now his life in in my hands.<br>And i must not<br>fail this time.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Ric+S.+Bastasa">Ric S. Bastasa</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=493531" data-title="Taludoy de Ric S. Bastasa" data-description="he last saw me when i was four years old, barely able to walk from a rare disease, he was father's side kick in the farm where flood rises and they would have to use boats to plant the rice. he couldn't believe how i have become so unlike of mys..."></div> </div> </div>

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