Invitation to a forest mural

  Invitation to a forest mural

"Come into the forest of murmuring trees primeval,

cradle of creatures big and small."

Dr Abe V Rotor

Wall mural by the author and his children - Marlo, Anna and Leo Carlo. 

St Paul University QC 2002

Come into the forest and leave all your things behind 

       and discover a world once your own, 

ancestral home of your forebears through evolution

       where the first seed of mankind was sown.

Come into the forest of murmuring trees primeval, 

       cradle of  creatures big and small,

where in diversity, sages say, there's harmony,

       home to the transients and tenants all. 

Come to the forest that was, and had been, Milton's best,

       Rousseau's scenery and Tarzan's lair.

Where the famed Paradise was lost and never regained,

       so with the gods and the deities fair.  

Come to a make-believe forest, masterpiece of man,

        whose art combines the truth with the tale,  

a wall transformed into landscape in a city jungle, 

        the thin red line we cross should we all fail. ~