by Marietta Lea B. Rosana

In this infinite sea
of longing
God dwells 
where silence speaks
of tenderness,
where seeking
 is the answer.

In the deep stillness
of moments
we can hear the canticle 
of the wind,
the butterflies’ hymn
for flowers,
the timeless epiphany 
of God’s love.

In the sweetness
of remembering
echoes the eternal refrain 
how He loves us,
His grace flowing
like streams
poured through the years
into our lives.

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Marietta Lea B. Rosana, who hails from Tabaco City, is an educator, a retired judge and a lawyer engaged in the practice of law since 1987. She gives legal counseling to poor litigants and teaches law in college after her retirement from the judiciary. Her poetry attempts to harmonize spirituality and law. Her poems were published in the Catholic Poetry Room, Agape Review, Academy of the Heart and Mind, and The Philippine Journal of Education. One of her poems appeared in the Philippines Graphic Weekly Magazine and another poem in the defunct Manila Daily Bulletin, a national newspaper. It is her belief that poetry is the soul of a nation which can strengthen one’s faith.