Forgotten bells of a forgotten war by RA-DO, literature
Literature
Forgotten bells of a forgotten war
Keep the bells of Balangiga
If it helps you sleep at night,
Do they drown the cries from Balangiga?
and remind you of your might,
Do you remember the children of Balangiga?
and how you extinguished their light
ring the bells of Balangiga,
If it helps you sleep at night.
While we dream
about war and blood,
there are those who fight and bleed,
they fight and bleed so that we can
dream about war and blood,
only a dream about war and blood,
nothing more but a dream,
a bad dream that will fade,
Unlike those who fight and bleed,
Some of those who fight and bleed
will fall to the grave,
so that you and I
can live a life of peace,
a life where we wont have to,
fight and bleed.
My mind can't seem to capture
and express into words
the verses of the song
that my heart sings,
its melody vibrates in
my chest and the music
plays whenever I,
think of you
slowly, everything fades to white
As the rain pours stronger,
like white paint being sprayed
on a stained canvas,
turning this metropolis
into a blank slate,
like a piece of empty paper,
filled with nothing
but possibilities