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AM I TO BE BLAMED?
Theyre chasing me, theyre chasing, no they must not catch me, I
have enough money now,
yes enough for my starving mother and brothers.
Please let me go, let me go home before you imprisoned me.
Very well, officers? take me to your headuarters. !ood morning
captain" no captain, you
are mistaken, I was once a good girl, #ust like the rest of you
here. $ust like any of your
daughters. %ut time was, when I was reared in slums. %ut we
lived honestly, we lived
honestly in life. &y, father, mother, brothers, sisters and
I. %ut then, poverty enters the
portals of our home. &y father became #obless, my mother got
ill. The small savings that
my mother had kept for our e'penses were spent. (ll for our
daily needs and her needed
medicine.
)ne night, my father went out, telling us that he would come
back in a few minutes with
plenty of foods and money, but that was the last time I saw him.
*e went with another
woman. If only I could lay my hands on his neck I would wring it
without pain until he
breaths no more. If you were in my place, youll do it, wont you
+aptain? hat? you
wont still believe in me?. +ome and Ill show you a dilapidated
shanty by a railroad.
&other, mother Im home, mother? mother?". There +aptain, see
my dead mother.
+aptain? there are tears in your eyes? now pack this stolen
money and return it to the
owner. hat good would this do to my mother now? shes already
gone" -o you hear me?
shes already gone. (m I to be blamed for the things I have
done?
ubmitted by/ Micah Alena Y. Abinion
ubmitted to/ Mrs. Joy B. Tabla
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Ballad of A Mothers !eart by Jose La"illa Tierra
The night was dark, for the moon was young
(nd the stars were asleep and rare0
The clouds were thick, yet 1outh went out
To see his &aiden fair.
"Dear One," he pleaded as he knelt
%efore her feet, in tears,
"My love is true; why have you kept
Me waiting all these years?"
The maiden looked at him unmoved,
It seemed, and whispered low/
"Persistent Youth, you have to prove
By deeds your love is true."
"Theres not a thing ! would not do
or you, Beloved," said he.
"Then go,"said she, "to your #other dear
$nd %ring her heart to #e."
ithout another word,
1outh left and went to his mother dear.
(nd opened her breast and took her heart.
*e did not shed a tear"
Then back to his &aiden fair he ran,
2nmindful of the rain0
%ut his feet slipped and he fell down
(nd loud he groaned with pain"
till in his hand he held the pri3e
That would win his &aiden4s hand0
(nd he thought of his mother dear
o kind, so sweet, so fond.
(nd then he heard a voice,
5ot from his lips but all apart/
"&et up,"it said0 "'ere you hurt, (hild?"
It was his mother4s heart.
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