![]() There are tears in your eyes? now pack this stolen money and return it to the owner. There captain, see my dead mother, captain! Mother, Mother I'm home, Mother? Mother?! What? You won't still believe me? Come and I'll show you a dilapidated shanty by a railroad. If you were in my place, you'll do it, won't you captain? If only I could lay my hand on his neck, I will wring it without pain until he breaths no more. One Night, my father went out, telling us that he will comeback in a few minutes with plenty of foods and money but that was the last time I saw him. All for our daily needs and her medicine. The small savings that my mother had kept for our own expenses was spent. My father become jobless, my mother got ill. But then poverty enters the portal of our home. My father, mother, brother, sister and I. But we lived honestly, we lived honestly in life. ![]() I was once a good, just like the rest of you here. Good Morning Captain! no captain, you are mistaken. Very well, Officer? Take me to your headquarters. Please let me go, let me go home before you imprisoned me. They're chasing me, they're chasing, no they must not catch me, I have enough money now, yes enough money for my starving mother and brothers. Yes, It was only a distilled water which ended the suffering of my mother. Ladies and Gentlemen, give me your verdict. "Mother,mother, you must not die.Don't leave, I love you. "Mother, forgive me.God, please understand me" I run to my room and come back with a syringe "But, mother, I promise to give life and not to end it" "Then.If you love me, end my sufferings, kill me.let me die" "Do you love me child?", she asked.Īs I embraced her "Yes, mother.If only O could get all your pain and agonies." My God, what is the use of ten years of study if I couldn't even use it at my mother's pain. I gave the best treatment but the grasp of death was so tight around her. I who had used to ease the pain of many, came too late to the life of my dying mother. I gave my mother everything but I was too late. Later on, I was sent as a scholar of the Philippines to the Unites States of America, I embraced my mother.tightly as I've reached the plane."Mother, mother", I whispered "you will always be my best mother in the world."Īfter four years, I come back with laurels. ![]() My mother who had given her whole life to me had tears in her eyes as she pinned the gold medal on my proud breast. All her efforts were not in vain for I pushed through of flying colors. My mother had burning faith that she turned the nights into days. I was nourished with hope that someday I might live a life different from her. My mother brought me up in such determination and my ambition was to escape the filthy and horrible place of Batalon. I was born in a slum district of Batalon, My father oh! I don't know him for I am a child of faith. Ladies and Gentlemen of this honorable court, please listen to me, listen to my story before you give my verdict. These hands, these hands that gives life to many, killed her because of my love to her. ![]()
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