SUDI NI ADAL WENNO RAYRAY NI PIRAK
(Bukanegan nga iparang ti TMI Global, Marso 18, 2011, Empress Restaurant, iti okasion ti “Sudi ni Laing” Scholarship Fundraiser, TMI Global, Honolulu, HI, iti panagakem da Natividad Cacho, Perlita Sadorra, ken Letty Manuel)
Sinurat ni Aurelio Solver Agcaoili
MANGIBABAET
Naimbag a rabii kadakayo a sangaili
Itoy a tallaong ket saritaan a pasalsali
Agdinniskutir dua ta dua a dayag
Agpinnasig nga agsinniglat iti galad.
SUDI NI LAING
Siak ni Sudi ni Laing, ti mamati iti kababalin
Mangipapati nga iti udina ket sudi ni laing
Daytoy ta daytoy laing ti mabalin a taklin
Gameng ti asinno man tapno iti biag agbalin.
RAYRAY NI PIRAK
Siak ti rayray ni pirak, siak ti agipalnaad
Siak ti mangipapilit a ti importante pirak
Doliar nga umat-atipukpok, kas makunak
Ta daytoy laeng ti mabalin nga irakurak.
MANGIBABAET
Ngarud nangngegantay ita, kakabsat
Naammuantay disposision ken ayat
Toy maysa a babai ket ti sudi ni laing
Ti met sabali a babai ket pirak di ibain.
SUDI NI LAING
Ngamin daytoy a Kulasa ket kastoy ti kunana:
Ti pirak kano latta ti pagrukodan iti biagna
No kano ta adut’ kuartana adut’ maaramidna
Ngem saanak a mamati iti kawaw nga ibagana.
RAYRAY NI PIRAK
Dinak met maallukoy daytoy a babai
A ti nasudi nga adal ti agtunda iti kari
Adu dagiti nakaadal dita ti kakaasi
Ada kadakuadat’ kaskasdi met a durgi!
SUDI NI LAING
Agtartarimaanka sika a Kulasa:
Dimo ipapilit a ti pirak adda gatadna
Awan ta amin daytoy ket mapukaw
No dumteng ti nairanta nga aldaw.
MANGIBABAET
No ti saritaan ket bennaten piman
Kuna ni Kulasa ti adal kapatgan
Kuna met ti sabali a Kulasa a saan
Ta ti rayray ti piraknat’ pamaangan.
SUDI NI ADAL
Pudno ti kunam sika a mangibabaet
Ta iti daytoy a biag adal ti langdet
Kaskenan iti amin uray no nagaed
Ta mapukaw pirak iti imat’ masaet
RAYRAY TI PIRAK
Saan a ti rason ti pannakapukaw
Ti pirak iti kakastoy nga aldaw
Ta umanayen ti kinabaknang
A pangpunno iti kalkalawakang.
SUDI NI ADAL
Ti adal ket iti bagi a naikapet
Ti adal ket iti panunot a dimket
Kasano koma nga iti babaet
Ket mapukaw ti nasalimetmet?
RAYRAY TI PIRAK
Kadaytoy a panawen ti adal magatang
Ngem ti kinabaknang saan ta saan
Kasano a gatangem ti gatad ti pirak
No ti pirak mismo ti ibirbirakat?
MANGIBABAET
Ti pagsasaritaan ket no ti adal mapukaw
Ti tungtongan ket no ti pirak agmawmaw
Kuna ti bangir a ti pirak ket sanikua
Nga iti kaano man ket matagtagikua.
Kuna met ti sabali a ti adal ti kaskenan
Ta dinto iti amin a panawen ket malibtawan
No ania ti makunayo dakayo iti tallaong
Ket iringpastayon daytoy nga iti ulo ket buong.
SUDI NI ADAL
Uray iti ania man a panawen ket ti adal adda
Saan a kas iti sanikua a no adda ket adda.
RAYRAY NI PIRAK
An-annuem ti adal no awanan rayray
Saan a kas iti pirak a ti sileng ti agsarday?
SUDI NI ADAL
An-annuem ti pirak a puro a rayray
Nga iti kawaw nga ulo ket ti sennaay?
Ta buong ti ulo ti adu unay a pirak
Ta bukbok ti kararuat’ naruay nga atik!
RAYRAY NI PIRAK
Saan nga amin nga adal ket makaanay
Saan amin nga ammo ket makaalalay!
SUDI NI ADAL
Saan nga amin a pirak ket agsileng
Adda pirak a tinagikukuan barengbaren!
MANGIBABAET
Umatiddog, kakabsat, ti saritaan a kastoy
Saan nga agugpot uray no dumteng pul-oy
Serraantayo ngaruden tapno jusgaan
No sadinno ti addan iti rason iti saritaan.
Ni Sudi ni Adal kadi ti innya sipatan
Wenno ni Rayray ni Pirak ti saluduan?
Agyamankami kadakayo, apo a tallaong
Iti awan labas a palakpak, gumgumluong!
People Power Revisited
We have seen it coming long before this domino visiting many countries in the Middle East.
And it will not stop in that region: it will visit other lands that have had history of deprivation and denial of the fundamental rights of peoples.
This social convulsion will change the face of the unruly world of unruly rulers wherever they are found.
The Philippines has had two, and we have forgotten, how, in the cusp of people’s rage, destructive and creative at the same time, and driven by the eternal need for freedom, justice, and respect for human rights, the mightiest of the rulers unable to hear the pained anger of brutalized people can meet their rule’s end almost instantly.
And in shame.
There are always two instruments and tactics available: either to remain brutal or to hear, for the final time, the stones crying out.
China had a crackdown, and at the dawn of its democratic reform from its repressive communist rule, thousands of students, many of them their most brilliant and thus, its potential leaders and visionaries, shed their blood on Tiananmen, the square of idealized revolutionary cry eventually becoming the altar of sacrifice.
We learn—or at least some countries do.
We learn—or at least some rulers do.
But many do not, and so the frenzied rule of unstable rulers with their unstable ideas about what makes their nation and country continues, the rights of their people trampled upon, the masks of their atrocities reinforced with the public relations campaign of benevolence and kindness and staged social equality.
But many do not, and so make everyone believe that their years of misrule are the best years of the life of their own people, with that penchant for a calculated passing on of power to family members, some of them not better than their despotic parents.
Today, the world has changed.
Today, the people have seen other ways of living the life that honors their humanity.
Today, the people have seen that they can no longer be muted and silenced and muffled forever, and that, in the deepest of the night, in the darkness of the hours of fear, that voice that cries out for freedom and democracy must come out into the open and finally blurted out for all other people to hear, for all our societies to hear, for all other countries to hear.
Egypt it was. And then Tunisia. And now Libya. Among these three countries, are almost one hundred of oppression and misrule, of masquerade and tyranny, and of untold atrocities and brutalities.
Among these countries is almost a century of misguided priorities, and deprivation and wretchedness never seen since the days of conquest and colonization.
We cannot justify these acts that can only tell us of what we have done to humanity.
We cannot give reason to any form of wretchedness when rulers are enjoying the perks and pelf of power.
Desperate, that young man who doused himself with gasoline and then set himself on fire before the public galvanized the Tunisians and made them realize that we cannot have resorts for tourists who can pay in dollars and euros and yet so many people cannot even come close to these resorts for pampered tourists.
No, we cannot have two kinds of citizens in any country.
No, we cannot have two kinds of people in a homeland.
No, we cannot have two rights in a nation: the rights reserved for those who are in power and the rights, crumbs as they are, given in mercy to those who are powerless.
No, we cannot have two privileges in any nation-state that has self-respect and that makes it as its commitment a fundamental respect for its own people.
Social injustice everywhere is social injustice everywhere.
We know social injustice when we see one—and all rulers of the world must take notice of what people can with the power they have in their hands.
This is what democracy is all about. And no less.
FAO/ Mar 2011
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