Poem by: Lourdes Rivera

From fields and meadows out they came

Hopping and skipping pony and braids

Till four years later they took their trail

And each of them sought out for the grail

Nothing heard, no one missed ‘cept for a few

None but a peck or just a curt ‘Hello!’

Most have been away, too many things to do

Or them they felt shy and awkward too.

But too sudden, too long, enough is enough

Says the forlorn mother, “many amiss I have

My brood I nurtured; all of them I love

Isn’t it time they came look back at their home?”

November 7, 2004 thirty-five years exact

Text and email, thanks to them so fast

The long lost ship heard a call at last

Come to PTA, San Fabian. Let us break the fast.

So much missed, so much lost; all joys and tears

The would-have-beens are now but just memoirs

The time is now, anything less or more

We hold on to and keep forever more.

Grail or not,  Mother SAMA calls us all

For is it not the mother who bear all?

ALBERTEENS ’69 Let not the banner fall

With one hand and one voice,

HAPPY HOMECOMING TO ALL!!!