Dawn - Child of Sunrise

 Dawn - Child  of Sunrise

Dr Abe V Rotor 

17th Century Church of San Vicente Ferrer. View from the window

of the author's ancestral house, San Vicente, Ilocos Sur

Dawn is the child of sunrise,

azure, crimson, emerald,

curtain of a new day, 

a call for all to rise.

Through the church's window, 

dawn joins the faithful

in their hymns and prayers,

alongside row by row.

Over the mountain range 

a reclining profile rises,

her gown of darkness fades 

and soon will change.

Like the dawn I'm a child, 

rising up as she rises,

to her ephemeral beauty

devoid of any pride. ~

 Cordillera Mountain and Old Church Profile (Photos by the author.)