JOSEPH FARLEY
-- For Kenneth Koch
1.
Trail blazers
cut down the trees
and make a path
that leads somewhere,
but not necessarily
where they were
trying to go.
2.
Others followed,
built cities
in the wilderness.
3.
What path is this
I have set upon?
What path is this
that you have followed?
4.
Afterwards,
some people
missed the trees.
5.
Some people
haven't noticed
the trees
are missing.
6.
It all ends the same.
That's nothing new.
All roads lead to Rome.
All poetry obscures
the obvious,
or makes it more so.
Some of our heroes may have been more brilliant or achieved more greatly, but I find it hard to think of any who lived more purely and more single mindedly than Evelio... his commitment to democracy, to social justice and to a life among the poor in our land. Februay 11, 2009 in Panay Island, Philippines is Evelio B. Javier Day. It is the 22nd Anniversary of the assassination of Evelio Javier. It was a stunning and decisive event towards our eventual liberation from Martial Law later that February 1986. Many in our Ateneo community remember meeting Evelio’s body at the airport two days later, and the Mass and the long march from Baclaran to the Ateneo de Manila on Valentine’s Day, February 14, 1986. We had a Mass at sunset in the field beside the Blue Eagle Gym and ended the Mass with the electrifying experience of hearing Fr. Jose A. Cruz, S.J. read for the first time in public the letter of the CBCP on the elections. Evelio B. Javier was born to Everardo Autajay Javier of Hamtic and ...
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