It soars high up in the sky,
But not with the flock of same feather...

I watch the horizon ahead
Disappear with the setting sun...

You only see the smile I show
But not the invisible tears that fall...

I share my words with those who speak
I offer silence to those who do not...

Why do I write this verse,
To release my overwhelming, pent up emotions...

My small family was all I knew,
And also, of course, my friends few...

Oh ye emotions that rise in me!
Why do ye come uncalled...

Each one mixed the vibrant colours,
And with different strokes of the brush...

Ten years of marriage, childless they were,
“Not a man”, “impotent”, people said...

They tiptoed into the vacant space,
Took refuge there, scattered all around...

You left before your time
Leaving me in mournful sighs...

Drenched in moonlight under the naked sky,
We sit with smiling lips and love-filled gaze...