Requiem to the Coral Reef Murals

Requiem to the Coral Reef Murals
Dr Abe V Rotor 

Mural painting and Poem by Dr Abe V Rotor

Far from Renoir's art, the colors of Rembrandt;

neither realism nor expressionism, though nil;

my brush just went rolling, rolling, and singing,

Neptune's tune, going with imagery and will.  

Far from the deep, and far from the ocean cove,
neither in a submarine nor with a diving gear,
the scene is as vivid as it had never been seen;
it's the inner mind, even with fading senses bear. 

There's time a thing, anything is viewed with awe,
and when it is no longer, when faded and worn;
in time in another view, this to be no longer true,
knowest a masterpiece however it was sworn. 

Through ages, neither continuous nor continuum,
that art and man, and man and art, not the same;
like the lost era that built the glorious renaissance,
the ancient, the ethnic, the unknown remain.~

Behold the hand that makes, and Lo! the hand
that ruins, or beauty sliding away from it,
the mural peeling off and the wall crumbling -
so with art, its heart, its message, its spirit. ~

Details of mural are fast deteriorating with time under the elements.  
St. Paul University Quezon City.