The
Legend of the Corn
What
strange red and golden seeds closely lined up in several rows, she wondered,
and wept as she remembered her lover who died on this very spot, his blood
watering the soil from which sprouted that unusual plant with the red seeds.
And
what of the golden ones? She painfully remembers a young and handsome dying
man, delirious in death, frantically repeating he wrapped into a dried banana
leaf the golden necklaces, beads, bracelets, rings and earrings he stole from
various graves.
She
helped him escape from the guards. They were going to start a new life
together. They were going to...
"If
only that old woman hadn't seen him! If only our Chief had not sentenced him to
die!" she wailed while clutching the tear-sodden ears of red and golden
corn, as she rhythmically rocked back and forth behind her dead lover's silent
hut, in the slowly yellowing dawn of Panay island.
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