Prayer of a Student The Sea Why does the sea so

-Trinidad Subido -Natividad Marquez

To learn, dear Lord, about these
peaceful, mother,
em’rald leaves, Why does the sea laugh,
These tender petalled blossoms laved As if it were fast asleep?
in dew mother,
From where they come, and how and why It would give our tired heart
they lived;
As it glints through the beam
Or yet to know why ocean waters lash
Their atomed selves against the
dearest child
granite rocks of the sun?
That senseless lie along the shores; The comfort of the deep.
to know
Why rainbows filing their ribboned
It is thinking of the joys, my
souls athwart
The eastern skies when sunrays flick child
the west;
Why lightning furies rage when storm- That it wishes everyone
wind still
The thunder that echoes through the
Why does the sea sob so,
dark;
To learn about the earth, about the To a Lost One
moon, mother, -Angela Manala-Gloria
The sun and the lesser stars and
other worlds As it breaks on a rocky I shall haunt you O my lost one, as
That span through that cerulescent
firmament; the twilight
shore?
To learn great facts about little Haunts a reed-entangled trail,
things
And then while knowing these, not to It recalls the sorrows of the And your dreams will linger strangely
unlearn-
with the music
Never, O God to unlearn these child-
learned truth
world Of a phantom lover’s tale.
That, Thou art in reality the source,
The Why, the How, the Wherefore of And weeps forevermore
all things.
You shall not forget me, for I am past
forgetting
I shall come to you again
With the starlight and scent of wild
champacas,
And the melody of rain.
You shall not forget me, dust will peer
into your
Window, tragic-eyed and still
And unbidden, startle you into
remembrance
With it hand upon the sill.

Jesy