FLORES ROSA

dreamstime.com

Flores rosa ni bonito
lamlam yan agaga';
hånao yan este na kattå-ko
guato gi todo i guinaiya-ko.

Pretty rose flower

shiny and red;

go with this my letter

there to all my love.

Gupu duro fan
yan i gråsia siha.
Chule' i minagof-ho
yan i fottunå-ho.

Fly intensely please

with all graces.

Take my happiness

and my fortune.

Written by Frank Lizama, 1975
DOE Chamorro Studies

The writer sends his loved one his happiness and good fortune through a rose which he sends enclosed in the letter.