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May 2022
Now that they're more threatened by the cries of the youth, they will do everything to dismiss your voices, discredit your efforts, belittle your advocacies.

Do not forget what we've started. Go back to the communities and continue the service as we should. Go back to the streets and keep the fight, if we must.

They will mock everything you do as if it is not for the country. They will laugh at you for being educated, woke, angry, and liberated, as if it is wrong to demand for a future that is ours.

God forbid that unwanted things happen, but do not be afraid to shed. Shed light to those who live in the shadows as the enemy's weapons are ignorance, fear, and dissonance. Shed tears for the injustices, for the abuse, for the abused. Shed blood for our freedom, if we must.

They will doubt you until they make you doubt yourselves. They will tag you red, the history they will try to bend.

But do not be bent.

No matter how many pages they burn, your heart will burn brighter because you are the book being written. You are the history as you uphold history, justice, and freedom.

There is no future if there is no history and there is no future without you. You are the clamors in the streets, you are the bars that will imprison the greedy, you are the stories before the ink writes history.
Tasyong Batsi
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Tasyong Batsi  23/M/Pilipinas
(23/M/Pilipinas)   
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