Olive Soliman Pineda-Cruz

AANHIN PA ANG DAMO KUNG PATAY NA ANG KABAYO. Your father may be a damn bastard. Your father may be the most irresponsible father on earth. Your father may be the worst father you’ve ever seen living in this planet. But still he is your father. You would not have definitely seen the sunlight without your father. You would be not what you are without your father notwithstanding what others would say. Every blood that runs in your veins has your father’s blood. You said your father had followed the wrong and crooked path. He had chosen wrong friends. But did you do anything to bring him away from these evils. While you were standing in the international stage with all the spotlights poked at you, your father was laboring under the heat of the sun as a construction worker. While you earn millions of dollars abroad, your father looked untidy most of the time with no decent house to live in, that his neighbors did not even know that he is the father of an International Star until his death. Your bodyguards are even much much better off than your father. Saan ang kahit kaunting pagtingin? Saan ang kaunting ambon? Yes, your mother and you left your father because he is irresponsible. But still he is your father. Tuktokon man kuno kita it pino hay indi kita makabayad sa atong ginikanan. Maybe a token in your wealth for his medication and decent house. Look at Manny Pacquiao, they were all abandoned by his father for another woman, yet he provided his father with house and his necessities. He brought his father even to Las Vegas to watch his fight. Look at Apple D Ap of the Black Eyed Peas, he spent thousands of dollars just to look for his father who abandoned them. There are a lot of people who spent considerable amount of money just to look for their father who abandoned them. They forget what their father had done to them. Because a father is a father however worse he is. There can only be one father on earth and unfortunately we cannot choose our own father. They may be bad but they are still our father. So, we have to love our father. He will only pass on this earth once. 

Now that your father is dead, so much attention is given to him. It’s too late. You can put your father in a golden coffin bury him in a mausoleum but it does not matter to him anymore. 

Yes, your life is not my business. But you are a role model to many of our countrymen. We can learn a lesson from your story.

Try singing this song of Luther Vandross

DANCE WITH MY FATHER

Back when I was a child 
Before life removed all the innocence 
My father would lift me high 
And dance with my mother and me and then 

Spin me around till I fell asleep 
Then up the stairs he would carry me 
And I knew for sure 
I was loved 

If I could get another chance 
Another walk, another dance with him 
I’d play a song that would never, ever end 
How I’d love, love, love to dance with my father again 

Ooh, ooh 

When I and my mother would disagree 
To get my way I would run from her to him 
He’d make me laugh just to comfort me, yeah, yeah 
Then finally make me do just what my mama said 

Later that night when I was asleep 
He left a dollar under my sheet 
Never dreamed that he 
Would be gone from me 

If I could steal one final glance 
One final step, one final dance with him 
I’d play a song that would never, ever end 
‘Cause I’d love, love, love to dance with my father 
again 

Sometimes I’d listen outside her door 
And I’d hear her, mama cryin’ for him 
I pray for her even more than me 
I pray for her even more than me 

I know I’m prayin’ for much too much 
But could You send back the only man she loved 
I know You don’t do it usually 
But Lord, she’s dyin’ to dance with my father again 
Every night I fall asleep 
And this is all I ever dreamBy: Kasimanwang Numanciahanon