Friday is Alumni Homecoming at my alma mater, the University of the Philippines.
This is the first time in several years that I was there but eventhough I was not able to join in all of those other years I’m always there in spirit…because in a lot of ways my heart has never left. Because in so many ways, UP is home. I guess that’s why they call it “Homecoming”.
When I was in high school, the only college I wanted to go to was at UP. The only degree I wanted was from UP . The only place that mattered was the mountain. In a lot of ways that hasn’t changed.
Words to a song that aptly described how it felt to be home once again is this song written by Allan Shamblin, and that Miranda Lambert made it number 1 on the music chart years back . The song is called “The House that Built Me”
I know they say you can’t go home again
I just had to come back one last time
Ma’am I know you don’t know me from Adam
But these handprints on the front steps are mine
Up those stairs in that little back bedroom
Is where I did my homework and I learned to play guitar
I bet you didn’t know under that live oak
My favorite dog is buried in the yard
I thought if I could touch this place or feel it
This brokenness inside me might start healing
Out here it’s like I’m someone else
I thought that maybe I could find myself
If I could just come in I swear I’ll leave
Won’t take nothing but a memory
From the house that built me
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