Last Poem of Rizal (Mi Ultimo Adios)
Rizal expresses his final words before he leaves his countrymen. The poem tells us to always look back and learn from our past and to always seek for the truth in which the world see through us Filipinos. We should always be grateful no matter what and never regret the things we have done for the sake of our nation if it's for the common good. Farewell, my adored Land, region of the sun caressed, Pearl of the Orient Sea, our Eden lost, With gladness I give you my Life, sad and repressed; And were it more brilliant, more fresh and at its best, I would still give it to you for your welfare at most. On the fields of battle, in the fury of fight, Others give you their lives without pain or hesitancy, The place does not matter: cypress laurel, lily white, Scaffold, open field, conflict or martyrdom's site, It is the same if asked by home and Country. I die as I see tints on the sky b'gin to show And at last announce the day, after a gloomy night; If you need a hue to dye your
