Saba Sheikh

Whether above or below
Together we make the rainbow

Through the darkest time
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I am 91/81/71
And having fun
I live on pension
And have no tension
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The journey of life could have been less painful
if....if only

I had not the power to feel
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In my childishness
And in my haste

I tried to catch you
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In spring as we shed our clothes
The humble trees wear robes of green
We thank god that winter has left
How a wonderful weather it is
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I strived all my life for love,
Love that I could never truly prove,
But once out of adolescence,
I cried out, it all began to make sense;
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O Why My love?

Why my love? , o, why my love?
Why do the tears fall down your eye
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O moon, the moon;
Shine your light on the wounded,
and disperse its sorrows
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O forlorn beauty!
Neglected is your pretty face,

You lie upon the ground so cold;
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In the withered lilies of long-forgotten memories,
will you be there,
will you remember;
just me,
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I see the magic of nature,
In the golden of ripe wheat,
In the flowery pasture,
And in the change of autumn tree.
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I dream,
That the clouds shall shower happiness on us,
tired with the years of gloom
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Daisy, ah! daisy,

Sitting all lone beside the lover's window
Your pale gaze does await, whose shadow?
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I WAS FOUR WHEN FATHER HAD DIED IN WAR
MOTHER HAD PLANTED YOU TO REMOVE HIS DEATH'S SCAR
I HAD NOT KNOWN YOUR NAME
BUT YOU BLOSSOMED LIKE A FOUNTAIN
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In which weather to write of you, I ponder,
For any weather can be perfect enough;
If only your love in words could be framed,
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One day this never-ending sky will fall
And it will change into the judgement hall

One day this forever world will forever sleep
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Here I am
Forgotten how it felt to be happy
Locked inside my own chamber
Chamber of despair
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