- published: 18 Jun 2016
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The Debut is an independent feature-length film directed and co-written by first-time Filipino American filmmaker Gene Cajayon. It is the first Filipino American film to be released theatrically nationwide, although regionally and every few months starting in March 2001 in the San Francisco Bay area ending in November 2002 in New York City. It is also one of the first feature films to take place within the Filipino American community, one of the largest Asian ethnic minorities in America.
Staring bearing
The load of past days
Waiting trailing
Much too many ways
Hiding providing
The next you had to brave
Fading and hating
The robe the past you gave
Come leave the sea
Of burden you trail
Come leave the sea
And raise from the vale
Come leave the sea
And stand upright
To see your sea
From a distant sight
Despising arising
The fate would like to turn
Blessing confessing
The safe you prefer
Wounded and bounded
There's still the hope to flee
The craving for changing
Is yielded by apathy
Every trial
Remain a scar
Of hate and sorrow
On your memories
Like million nails stung
The past in your vein
And then you start