Living Tunnel to a Beautiful World

Living Tunnel to a Beautiful World 

Interior Wall Mural Paintings 

by Dr Abe V Rotor 

Living with Nature Center

San Vicente, Ilocos Sur

In Jules Verne's novel, A Journey to the Center of the Earth, 

      there is a world similar to ours, if you know,

somewhere in between, counterpart of another world in space,

      a Heaven, and a lost Paradise down below.

Remnants of The Lost World of Conan Doyle millions of years ago,

      we love the pre-human world to study;

and ask if the world then was peaceful, and richer in life and variety 

      through scarce fossils that tell the story.   

If the Castaway movie was all about survival, what is then beauty,

      when creation reveals the ultimate beauty in nature,

that Milton* and Keller** saw in their blindness so beautiful a world,

      that those who can see fail to appreciate and nurture?

The Rotor-Valdez clan celebrates life "at the end of the living tunnel." 

What truly makes our world beautiful is the presence of man 

      expressing his humanity almost to divinity;

yet what a paradox that what he builds he destroys, and vice versa -

      if only he holds on to Nature's true beauty. ~

*John Milton was an English poet and intellectual wrote at a time of religious flux and political upheaval. He is best known for his epic poem Paradise Lost. He later wrote its sequel Paradise Regained, when he became blind.

**Helen Keller, deaf and blind since infancy learned her first word water. Keller later described the experience: “I knew then that ‘w-a-t-e-r’ meant the wonderful cool something that was flowing over my hand. That living word awakened my soul, gave it light, hope, joy, set it free