by Marietta Lea B. Rosana

I just sit here before God
with my unnamed longing
veiled in the mantle of his grace
He calls my name

He comes
as quiet ripples to my mind,
summons of the heart
to attune my soul
to the rhythm of his Spirit

Oh, how deep is my desire 
to love him.

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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.