My land of birth and pride,
sandy shores, and calming tide.
Its people in which I side.
Fervour for freedom we don't hide.
We've been conquered many times,
By neighbours and by lands far away.
The Americans yet to admit to their crimes,
The Spanish who forced us to pay and pray.
Diverse in our culture, now homogeneous,
destroyed by the friars who were "righteous".
And we all act as the kings did, as if we lost nought.
Even though we sing for them, we are undoing everything for which we fought.
We sell our greatest souls to our oppressors,
our own government has become moles,
serving our captors.
Both giving us nothing for our skills.
Just the salaries of the artisans taxed and brought back to barely pay bills.
They sacrifice their time and love for this country.
Only to be faced with discrimination and broken banks.
While back here we suffer the consequences of their "clemency".
Our country has a myriad of problems, yet no aid or apology from Spain or the Yanks
And now. I leave, despite wanting to help.
All of this guilt within me, and all I can do is yelp.
Is it wrong to work to go somewhere better?
Abandon this place instead of fighting to end this terror?
I sacrifice my love for my home for me?
To be my true self? To have safety and freedom?
I just feel as if I cannot fight if I myself am not free
Is it selfish? Is it wrong? For me to have a chance so seldom?
I promise to continue fighting valiantly.
Even if I have to fight the ignorant majority.
I promise to stoke my fervour and fury.
Even if I am in a far land living freely.
I may be doing this to leave and be free,
to be myself, to be safe, to be happy.
But I will never stop fighting for humanity,
for love, for the ability to be free from land to sea.
I carry my guilt knowing I leave many suffering.
And I will always remember that every second I live free and enjoying.
I will leave as I truly can't take not being able to be me, to be free
But I won't forget the many at home and abroad all suffering unjustly.
Farewell to the Philippines, I will fight for you to be free from the shackles of imperialism.
Farewell to my neighbors and friends, I will never stop fighting this old schism.
We will escape the exploitation of the West, and no longer be under capitalism.
And free ourselves from the friars who imposed Catholism.
Mahal ko kayo mga kaibigan, kahit a-alis na ako hindi ko kakalimutan kayo.
Mahal ko kayong lahat kahit pu-punta ako sa mga bayan na malayo.
Baka may araw na pwede umuwi ako dito.
Kapag ang mga bakla ay pwede mag-sabi na "ito ang totoong sarili ko".
I know it's been a while since my last poem, but I've had time while mourning
And all the pain and pondering of my future after this.
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important vardy book question: does it reference the legendary 'chat shit, get banged' fb status? this will be my grading critera
HE DOES. The lore behind it will SHOCK YOU (he says he can't remember why he posted it or where it came from but "Chances are that someone chatted shit and got banged over the years")
Also this is the quote I've been using to pitch this book to people (Chapter 2)
this book is 1) everything I'd have expected a Jamie Vardy book to be like and 2) more fun than 90% of the memoirs I've read
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semi-related to the arc 5 ost vid i made a few days ago, but i tried to compile all the OW songs i could from across all the games on spotify for those that prefer to listen there... unfortunately it's missing a WHOLE LOT because many of the artists either aren't on spotify, are on spotify but the songs in question aren't, or i just couldn't find the songs because the original names are different from what they were listed as on the sites i originally got them from (or they're only included in like, audiostock compilations and not included on the artist's page, making it very hard to find...)
anyway, i tried my hardest to locate every song i possibly could tho i might have missed a few because they were buried somehow
this includes all the OW games, so OW, OFW, OC, and StLD (tho i could not find the songs from T2A2G or WTaW)
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