Tunnel Windows to Heaven

In loving memory of the late Rev Msgr Benjamin Advincula. 
Episcopal Vicar for the Clergy, Archdiocese of Capiz, 
and Parish Priest of  Santa Monica
Dr Abe V Rotor

Daybreak, I ask what lies beyond the wall,  and a whisper 
came through, what goes in there. 

And the view  
I see is the same though, 
yet a vine across the window 
is calling, hello! 

Walls, walls, walls, I complain. 
Windows, windows the sun and wind in refrain.

One window is blocked 
with the machine of a clock
that had long stopped.  
Tic-tac-tic-tac-tic-tac 


Here's one bright morning, ah, but another game, 
yet a holy name I hear to learn to say, Amen.  


I see heaven through a keyhole,
and myself whole; 
I wish to reach it, but the key isn't mine
And neither time.

Acknowledgment: Santa Monica church; Rev Msgr Benjamin Advincula
Episcopal Vicar for the Clergy, Archdiocese of Capiz, 

and Parish Priest of  Santa Monica