COME BACK O! LOST CRAFT

COME BACK O! LOST CRAFT

Erle Frayne Argonza y Delago

You will come back, o! lost craft!

You were drowned in the great deluge

Where faith in self lost its scepter

To turbulent waves of underesteem

Faith has lost faith!

You are not lost!

Nothing is

Lost, not a craft that burns

The nights that owls had no monopoly

Over, beat your own despair!

Rise and ride astride the new tidal waves!

Find the whirlpool from the deep recesses!

Twill pull you up

To where bubbles are on sea surfs’ tops

Afloat you shall be

You are your own life saver

You

Are.

[Writ. 14 May ‘99, Cubao, Quezon City, MManila]