(aaa) When You'Re Back Poem by Edwin Alba Empestan

My sweet lass with long hair and fair complexion
So sweet once my own but gone into infinite hiding
Three decades and seven years had passed
But not once that she's been out of my mind

Have my own family and things and years come and go
Many seasons have withered and years added to age
But a times your sweet face and long hair streak in my mind
Nothing can erase the fondness of you as my first love

Pretending to be in full contentment of god's given life
Years shredding passed as thread in the spool so be it
But for heaven' sake where have you been gone?
While I was here like a rover and a fool still longing for you

Now comes a falling lucky star of hope of all those years
It comes with a bang and full of surprises Alas! I found
I found you now but still like a dream as we are afar
Thousand of miles we are in a distant longing for one

I ask why again? Are we doom to be this way?
Will we always abject to such a suffering and loneliness
Are we not meant for each other to see and be happy?
Can we fill in the space we had for so long in our life

It is so near and yet so far that we had to suffer for long
We had excitement and for sure it's very strong for love
We want to explode while listening to our own voice
Our voices like music to our ears that has long ceased

A dream...? Maybe not... it's our time I'm sure yes it is
So be it! We will be there come rain or shine to be one
We will be one, and no one and not one to separate us
Come heaven or hell for us long as we know what love is!