Senator Grace Poe on Tuesday took a break from politics and was teary-eyed after hearing her father’s rendition of “Kumusta Ka?’ during a guesting at a radio station.
Poe guested and read love poems at the radio show of lawyer Romulo Macalintal’s “The Law of the Heart” over state-run radio DWBR.
“It’s good to take a pause and be dreamy and romantic,” the senator said during her guesting.
The neophyte senator read “Garden in My Heart and Let Me Serve You” by late American poet James Metcalfe. She also read selected lines from the Tagalog poem “Pag-ibig” by the late Jose Corazon de Jesus.
Poe turned romantic when she said that she still keeps her love letters from her husband.
“So meron akong mga pruwebang love letters. Hawak-hawak ko pa hanngang ngayon,” she said.
During the middle of her radio guesting, her father’s rendition of “Kumusta Ka?’ was played.
Poe was seen wiping her eyes after she got teary-eyed while the music was being played.
Her father Fernando Poe Jr. died in December 2004, months after he lost to a controversial presidential election against former President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo.
More than a decade after his death, his daughter Grace is being eyed to run as president in 2016.
The senator, however, has not decided on her political plans come 2016.
Asked whether her decision-making could have been easier if her father was around, the senator said, “Of course it would be easier.”