you ask me how much I love you,

Ah, lovely inquisitive lips

You would want to fathom the ocean
And scale the infinite blue above us.
Shall I count the sands on the seashore,
Or pick the numberless stars of heaven
Like some sweet woodland blossoms?
Ask then the bold eagle of the air
If you could soar the ends of the distance ,
Or the worm of the ground if it could crawl
Down to the very core of the earth.
And you ask me how much I love you
Ah, lovely inquisitive lips,
You would want to fathom the ocean
And scale the infinite blue above us.
Read !read the answer in my eyes
And in the quiverless muteness of my lips...
For there are things that are voiceless
And would be told only in silence!

Dr. Benito reyes wrote this poem because he discovered a

law that is: The minimum happiness Law, which state that :
No man is capable of happiness who is incapable of loving
one other person than himself.

Biography of Dr. Benito Reyes

He is a Filipino professor who became the 1st president of

the Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila(PLM)
.He served the the university from 1967-1972 prior to his
appointment as university president.He was a professor at
the FEU where he taught for 21 years. It was also at the FEU
where he earned his master in arts Degree in Philosophy. Dr.
Reyes had the privilege to taught of teaching at the Boston
Uniersity in 1951 1952 as a Fullbright-Smith-Mundt
professor .And in the State University of NewYork in 1965 as
a Fulbright-Hays proffsor of philosophy

After his stint as the university president of PLM, he move

to US and resided in California, .It was in Ojai Califrnia
where he founded the World University, with Dr. Dominga L.
Reyes as a co-founder.

Benito reyes has written : The practice of conscious Dying;

Carlas Sobre Meditacion; Moments wihout Self; The
Process of Moral Choice (Ethics 101 SEr.) ; Dialouges with
God
rote