Brook

Brook

Dr Abe V Rotor

Central Plains, Nueva Ecija.  Photo by the author 

on a helicopter, circa 1976

The brook of my childhood

meandered in dreams,

where lazy hours flowed

through the valley;

when in youth I drifted

on her shoulders

to where the world opens;

when with age I found her

dying as she filled the ocean. ~

- AV Rotor, Light in the Woods 1995, Megabooks