Tuesday, July 07, 2009

I apologize I've been on a roll with farewell tributes. Since three weeks ago, I have been surrounded by death. I guess much like everyone else with the passing of MJ, Farrah, Billie Mays, and even Robert McNamara (for all it's worth), there have been a number of public figures that have passed away recently. Even in the Philippines, with Susan Fernandez and Wilson Baldonaza, lives have been cut short though by natural means (Susan is 52 and Wilson 55, I think). Then my cousin's father-in-law also passed away which caused us to rush his wife to fly back to PI so she can see her father and bid goodbye. And yet I still vividly remember Francis Magalona's passing as well as the great worker-leader Ka Bel who the whole international labor movement mourned (not just the Filipino people, mind you). I have actually met him in my union days and I remember him with his grandfatherly demeanor (he never stopped telling stories, haha).

Today, with MJ's tribute I found myself humming the following song. I guess it's my way of saying farewell to him and all I have known or have been affected by, in a way of quietly questioning reality and wondering in a subtle way as to why such thing as death comes, but at the same time understanding that, just simply, such is so.



"If It's Magic"
Stevie Wonder

If it's magic...
Then why can't it be everlasting
Like the sun that always shines
Like the poets in this rhyme
Like the galaxies in time

If it's pleasing...
Then why can't it be never leaving
Like the day that never fails
Like on seashores there are shells
Like the time that always tells

It holds the key to every heart
Throughout the universe
It fills you up without a bite
And quenches every thirst

So...
If it's special
Then with it why aren't we as careful
As making sure we dress in style
Posing pictures with a smile
Keeping danger from a child

It holds the key to every heart
Throughout the universe
It fills you up without a bite
And quenches every thirst

So...
If it's magic...
Why can't we make it everlasting
Like the lifetime of the sun
It will leave no heart undone
For there's enough for everyone

1 Comments:

At 12:07 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

really sad and most recently the death of former President Cory Aquino. I guess that's the sad reality of getting older. Death. More death. Me and my friend just had a talk about that because we noticed that more and more of people we know are getting sick ( my aunt was just diagnosed with stage 3 ovarian cancer and her uncle has lung cancer). "Tumatanda na talaga tayo kasi mas marami na tayong kilala na nagkakasakit ng malubha o namamatay...."

That's why we have to make the most of life. Now.

 

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