Re-creating Heaven-on-Earth on a Wall

Trees for Peace

Re-creating Heaven-on-Earth

Dr Abe V Rotor

Author and artist poses with friends before a huge wall mural complex

he painted for St Paul University QC in 2000

Blood stain on my shirt, my friends were concerned;

     “Go to the clinic,” they urged, pleaded;

My wound was healing then, its stitches stretched

     to the limit. “I’ll be OK, “I said.

Frantic, catching up in the final hour it seemed

     to the last breathe - the ultimate test;

What more in life can you do before its flame

      goes out?  I didn’t care at all to rest.

I saw dark clouds like curtain parting into view

     a landscape so beautiful, so pristine;

I wondered where heaven is - isn’t it on earth?

     this scene in my whole life I hadn’t seen.

Only when the inner you sees beyond the wall;

     “What’s essential is invisible to the eye,”

Exupery’ wrote in The Little Prince, the pilot

      lost in the desert and about to die.

Frankl’s Search for Meaning, Handel’s Hallelujah,

     Hugo’s novels, Rizal’s Last Farewell  

Behind their footsteps least trodden I followed,   

     a heaven-on-earth I’m humbled to tell. ~