[: |] "to be.. therefore i am"

How does it feel?

..to be attacked inside your own house? to be insulted by your own name? by your own reflection? to be shamed in front of your own face? to be humiliated? and to be dishonored? How does it feel?

..to be wounded by your own proud blade? To be torn apart by the very person that put you together? To be assailed, harmed, tackled, beaten, spat on and left to rot.. right under your own roof? To be beleaguered? Really, how does it feel?

...to be a tutubi na walang tinatagong bato sa ilalim ng lupang tinuka ng manok sa taas ng bundok..

He was assaulted under his own turf. Whatever that feels like.. whatever that magnitude of pain one would feel under that circumstance..

He knew.