During the martial law, he was arrested, tortured and was held in solitary confinement for almost 10 years. Sison founded and became chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Philippines in 1969 and organized its military wing – the New People’s Army. Since them, the NPA has used its communistic ideals against the government. In this poem, Sison compares a guerilla to a poet. That is, a guerilla is no less than a poet, what he does may be as noble, or as grave, as that of a poet.