(Helping Hands)
My brother and sister Filipinos -
A nation who
has no remembrance of its own past
is like a man who
have lost the use of his legs.
A nation who
has no love of its own present
is like a man who
have lost the use of his heart.
A nation who
has no vision of its own future
is like a man who
have lost the use of his mind.
If we are this nation,
what for are our hands?
What for are our hands, my people?
- selah -
What for the memory but the light?
What for the light but the life?
What for the life but the hope?
What for the hope but the love?
What for the love but the labor?
What for the labor but the peace?
What for the peace but the LORD?
And what for the LORD, our King,
but the victory of all these good things,
alleluia to God on high, my people!
What for our independence if not our freedom?
What for our freedom if not our peace?
What for our peace if not each other?
What for are our hands, my people?
- selah -
Who has given us our nationhood but God?
Alleluia to God on high, my people!
Did any of us choose to be born with such a soul?
Who can take this spirit in our hearts away?
Alas! Only we, my people, you or I -
by our unremembrance, by our impenitence,
by our unpeaceful, and false ways.
So let us, as the stars,
in this time before the dawn,
awaken Now.
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