Tuesday, September 27, 2005
The weather put on one of its grandest shows on the day of my friend,arwah Shalehin's funeral service.Though i wasnt there to witness the funeral,i personally can envision everything.A radiant sun shone down on them as they entered the family's home,and a gentle breeze swirled the women's skirts.It was as if Mother nature herself insisted that Shalehin leave us in a proper style.The sorrow still remained partly mine,i reminisced in a moving eulogy.
I created a poem,something which took me weeks to deliver it into sheer perfection.
The Forever Friend
On my own, but mostly the savannah,
Where the tumbleweeds fade away and die,
Before the glassy sun burns a summer of crystals,
The glistering waters of the high seasOf which was so far a place as of where vultures roam.
I looked around but you weren't anywhere...
You used to say that you would never die,
But I took the wrong meaning into my heart.
Now the sea is wild with despair,
Deep blue like a prairie of flowers blue,
Where all children of God rest in eternal peace.
I saw you at the end,You and I, brother and sister of nature,Brother and sister of heaven and earth,
Your usually calm and heavenly eyes full of tears,Bitterly falling one after one into a river,
Then the river of life turned red in blood.
My eyes watched in horror.
Slowly and deadly your heart became poisoned,You disappeared without saying good-bye,
Not a word came out of your mouth.
You became like desolation in its grave.
When once the skies were a realm of stars.And the sun shone brightly in summer skies,
You were there to share the calmness;
But now I stand here in midst of the tall grass.
And only the savannah remains
Up to this moment,his name still engraves in my mind with inscription.
We love and miss him,and we know it;this suffices for reason's share.
Love,ayu.
marfi @ 4:56 AM