Happy Transience of Childhood

    Happy Transience of Childhood

San Vicente, Ilocos Sur (Heritage Zone of the North - RA 11645)

Dr Abe V Rotor

Part of a mural painting (15.5 ft x 5 ft) by A V Rotor.

 The mural graces the stair case of Municipal Hall.

This is a beautiful world to the young, 

Faces grow on clouds and kites fly high, 

In kaleidoscope against the setting sun. 

The trees sing and nests sweetly cry. 

If for all the fish and the Siberian breeze, 

The fields are still, save a songbird, 

The clock comes to a stop in hammock’s ease - 

But a chime yonder is urging to be heard. 

Not enough is summer, transient is the game; 

It starts with glee and ends with a sigh, 

And childhood ends. But never is the aim 

Of the sky to make the little ones cry. 

Freud and Thoreau – these great minds saw 

What makes a man, the child of years ago, 

Sitting by the pond or climbing on a bough, 

His kite rising to heaven’s glow. 

Painting presented to Mayor Jose Tabanda III by Dr. Abercio V. Rotor, as a remembrance of happy childhood, the impressions of which are indelible even to those who are far away from their beloved hometown. May 23, 2005 Living with Nature, AVRotor ~