<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=543538" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A simple child of ignorance</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Have I known war that dwell in the fields? <br>Have I known war with all it’s bloodshed? <br>Have I known war with the guns and cannons? <br>Have I known war of the Philippines? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Social Studies, what of your use? <br>Heroes dwell everywhere<br>Why praise a hero when we all are one<br>Why is their war different form mine? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Jose Rizal, our national hero<br>Wrote poems and stories that made us strong<br>Yet what war is yours different from mine, <br>When I write poems and stories just fine.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Apolinario Mabini boasts of war conquests in our land<br>The Katipunan, was he part of that? <br>They shed their bloods, but what makes them different? <br>For I too shed my blood in vain</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I could accept Lapu-lapu in Mactan<br>At least he won his rebellion fine<br>Against the Spaniards, he drove them away<br>For five hundred years, so the book says</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Why praise those heroes who never won<br>A fight in life where there was torn<br>Why praise those heroes who shed their blood<br>And yet held no glory in the mud? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I don’t know of the war in the fields<br>Never knew the war with those guns and things<br>Never knew of the blood you shed<br>The tears, the pain that you have bled</div><div style="margin:10px 0">O heroes, forgive me for my ignorance<br>That I do not thank you for all you’ve done<br>With all the sacrifices for instance<br>That you have exchanged for fun</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I don’t know of the life you dwell<br>I don’t know the food you sell<br>But I do know that I have my life to see<br>The fruit of your efforts, you’ve waited for eternity</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Norina+Geniston">Norina Geniston</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=543538" data-title="A simple child of ignorance de Norina Geniston" data-description="Have I known war that dwell in the fields? Have I known war with all it’s bloodshed? Have I known war with the guns and cannons? Have I known war of the Philippines? Social Studies, what of your use? Heroes dwell everywhere Why praise a he..."></div> </div> </div>

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