Light of Life
Despite that my world had turned blight,
I kept envisioning that I had wings in flight
Up higher and higher I climbed like a bird
To rid of the life of no shortage of fight.
How should one know what was to offer in an unpredictable life?
She came like a tidal wave but not dangerously rife.
Was that some one in a fairy tale I had dreamed all along?
Or was it the high time that I changed my life?
Never had I questioned my fate until I saw her this day,
The outlandish encounter drove the dried hope aside.
Helplessly was I trying to suppress that insatiable urge for her
‘Cause metamorphosis of me went from Dr. Jackal to Mr. Hyde
Nothing could fathom the depth of the emotions,
Thoroughly was I enthralled at the first sight.
Then quickly into a bottomless hole of emptiness I was
Certain that my chance was slight…
Somehow there was that recurrent urge of fantasy
Driven by that pair of saddened eyes
O, God! Thinking of all this I shouldn’t be
For it would lead me to an unthinkable demise…
Was it for the beauty that diverted the aged for a greener patch?
Or was it for the wrinkled that’d been nagging and ranting day and night?
Neither of all these were the answers
It must be her, some one with favorable zodiac sight…
There was something in her beyond word of description,
Instantaneously it forged my eyes open wide,
All effort was made to digress the longing for her presence
Oh, her excusable absence for a brief moment prolonged the eternal night.
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It’s rumored that an uncommitted hubby of hers had abandoned her.
How could this happen to someone so vulnerable and so easily beguiled?
I could have impressed her to places where I intended
Had I known she’d been somewhere in the world far and wild.
Wanting to see her was tremendous
That the most high sounding words could hardly depict this cavort fire
My heart could barely escape that twinge of emotion
If I missed a day through that glass window I would admire
She would always wave her little figures to acknowledge her presence
However it meant I really wouldn’t mind
I stole every single moment to use that passage to covet her
Ignoring everything that happened on all the other sides
Timid as I was when one day I ventured to invite her out
With an expectation of a negative or at least a delayed reply
But to my surprise she nodded to come along
Driving could be an option but we walked to a restaurant nearby….
In no time at this distant eatery we arrived
Still figuring out if I could reach out for her hand
How I wished I could walk an extra mile
But now the only thing to do for me was to open the door wide
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Her two-year existence at this locale seemed so fast going
It just went like a fraction of a second in time
I could’ve ventured to request another invitation before her departure,
Faking the importance of the matter that was even grime
But as timidly as I was to let the chance slip away from me
The farewell dinner was materialized
No time for a present to her to keep
Her and I just went to the party with the outfit customized
The food was out of this world, everyone would say,
But I was eating with an absent mind
The feast on the table, the grandeur dress on her
Only the latter, in the depth of my heart, would forever reside
Soon this would be all over like all the parties
It was over, ‘cause her departure note to me would write:
“Everything in this world is like a drama,
Don’t get yourself into the entanglement that would hurt you and I.”
Afraid of the note being discovered by the nosy party,
Glove compartment was not the place to hide.
Tearing it to pieces and dumping it in the trash was where it went,
Hardly any trace could anybody find.
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(2012)
#Love