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Dear darlingest Annelies Marie,

Time. Terrain. Treasure. These are negotiable things. For all of these are created things made for the good of Mankind insomuch as if this good, the sovereign good of our nations, is the cause by which the nobility of those human souls who through the bearing of arms is by their struggle defined, then their victory is thus by way of this peace assured so that all those battles ahead would not seem to be an endless road.

For even if these particular causes, if only through peculiar human frailty, differ, the soul of the noble soldier is constant in its seeking for the peace and therefore, knoweth that the road to every true victory (and the unfolding of all human hope) does in exile time converge (into the reality of the present good) and all our battles shall find their end at the final ascent of our nations at the Last Day.

Life is non-negotiable. Because life while we are yet here in exile time belongs to no man; all of sacred life, most especially the life that breathe within each and every human soul, while we are yet here upon this world and before the Last Day, my love, belong to God and to God alone.

Therefore, in terms of the ICRC hostage crisis and in the context of this probationary reality that all truly human and therefore, truly faithful hearts among all of our honorable religions but most especially the Abrahamic faiths must recognize, unless life and the respect for sacred life, most especially human life, is not made the common ground between any two causes, distinct only by their methods though ultimately not by their hope both similarly seeking to respond to certain human needs, war and the evil ambition of war and not peace shall drive its course unto fruition unto the everlasting regret of all. For war is a friend to no one, not even itself.

This is a policy of state where the paradigm of the peace is concerned.

In its present application; should any cause desire peace with our nation then, the release of the hostages - all hostages, not just the two ICRC workers, within the responsible sphere of our endeavor of Country, our one Republic of the Philippines, as a show of good will to the one Filipino nation and as a token to the responsible Philippine state of the prior willingness to broaden the grounds of our common understanding, under the eternal vigilance of Almighty God, is indeed, requisite to any proper negotiations that would, in time and even with sacrifice now borne together in trust, shall eventually lead to the convergence of our hopes and peace to our generations.

But should any cause desire war against our shared humanity, seek to deceive our responsible state and to profane the sacred life of our nation, then all our nations shall be mutually inclined to conduct the absolute defense and the noble military march to repair the breach to the one peace.

This is part of the Abrahamic charter; that all honorable religion, most especially our Abrahamic faiths, inclines each of us to become truly human in our selves and therefore, truly part of each other's hope as individual human beings and as individual human nations; a keeper and a friend to each other forever.

Because the peace that we profess is a common destiny and a Home for all our nations and not a desolation of the abomination of war.
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So many other things, my love, but for now, we rest. It's another working week ahead - today is Araw nang Kagitingan.

I love you. Oh, I have another poem for us - it's called, "You Stayed", and it's somewhere here, I already wrote the seeds of it some months back. Gotta find it - it's going to be something I shall post for your birthday this June 12, my darlingest dear.

Always to always,

Pusing