Tita Cory, thrice loved

(Memory Served: Sometime between 01 and 05 August 2009, Makati City)

On 01 August 2009, Corazon Cojuangco Aquino, 11th President of the Philippines (and the first of the Fifth Republic) succumbed to cancer and died. The country mourned, likely as much grieving as after the assassination of her husband, former senator and exiled leader of the opposition, Benigno Aquino Jr.

As tribute to the former president, in ABS-CBN, Christian Bautista interpreted a song first performed by Jose Mari Chan, with lyrics from Ninoy's poem to his wife Cory, "I Have Fallen in Love (With the Same Woman Three Times)." This song is the ninth of 13 tracks of Chan's album Constant Change, released in 1989.

I fell in love again,
with the same woman the third time.
Looming from the battle,
her courage will never fade. 

Amidst the hardships she has remained,
undaunted and unafraid.
She is calm and composed,
she is God’s lovely maid.

(This month liwaliw Sounds will mostly post popularized songs in Filipino that were originally poetry from the country's literary figures, in observance of Buwan ng Wikang Pambansa per Proclamation No. 1041, series of 1997.)


[This post is antedated: 20180826]