Sons' Query?

As kids you may ask a question
on the lovely place we come from
you may seek for information
of Paradise's Eve and Adam.

"Across the ocean", we tell you
Where quails and mayas are happy;
Where we are free to hope, to dream
of the land of milk and honey.

From San Pedro's Davao city;
the nights and no shadow of male,
she burns midnight candles to stay,
to be a Florence Nightingale.

That's how we came into this world
Across the rough sea of the bold

where he hops from town to city
from course to changing a course
to learn what's in truth and beauty
to know the great Almighty Source.


That's how we came into this place
where not even time can efface.

From tears of the tropical rain
and from Mindanao's fertile soil
where hopes and dreams are not in vain
where our courage to journey boil

towards the two of us
from the wonderful love
that has united us
that in you our hearts throb
what you'll say to us both
you knew more of the world you sought
about the world to you we brought.

And like an earthquake
we shook the earth
that gave you birth
where the tree of life appears
and you sing the poem of love
in the highest branch sans fears
we fly to reach you like a dove.

(Greg In. Trabanca )