A broken icon found refuge in a garden
One sunset a broken bust glows alive
Under the
trees in my garden;
Smashed on the chin and across the face,
This figure is sadly spoken.
If heroes were immortals by their deeds,
Mount Olympus won’t
be forgotten;
Legends live in the hands of the artist,
Even those who’ve
sought in vain.
Concrete bust probably that of General Emilio Aguinaldo, president of the First Republic of the Philippines, who fought the Americans after nearly four centuries of Spanish colonization of the islands, but lost. The country became Commonwealth of the Philippines for 50 years under the US. The bust was discovered and acquired by the author in a lumberyard in San Vicente, Ilocos Sur in 2018. The sculptor remains unknown to this day.
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