Note: This is a lesson that we learned from the recent <br />Metro Manila & Central Luzon flood, Sep.26,2009 <br />The theme is inspired from the Book of Psalms <br /> <br />Earth, thou hast been our dwelling place <br />For all these years and generations to come <br />Thou art belongs to the universe, not ours <br />To own, to abuse thy wealth within thee <br />Before us, the sea, heavens, mountains, <br />And everything within, without <br />Thou art already Earth <br />Thou turnest man to destroy thee <br />And never give complaint <br />In the morning, care thee for us <br />They are like grass which groweth up <br />In the morning to come, <br />Thy servants flourisheth and groweth more <br />And in the evening without thy knoweth <br />Thy servants cut thee down and withereth <br />By thine anger, are we consumed <br />By thy wrath, are we troubled <br />Thou hast set our iniquities before thee <br />Threescore years and ten, <br />Fourscore years, thy servants carriest <br />To offend thy goodness, labour and sorrow <br />We knoweth the power of thy anger <br />That soon thy servants’ death is nigh <br />We will be cut off, we fly away forever <br />Oh Earth, give us thy wisdom <br />To teach us to number our days of fear <br />To teach us to repent and satisfy us <br />Early with thy mercy <br />That we may rejoice and be glad all our days <br />Oh Earth our only dwelling place <br />Forgive us, have mercy on us all! .<br /><br />Noel Horlanda<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/thou-hast-been-our-dwelling-place/
