Wishes
written by: Bilquis Fatima
Entice me with bouquets of roses.
Walk me through luxuriant trails
Serenade me under the silver sky
Dine me in a flower strewn bower
Sitting on a rock by a jocund stream
Immerse my feet and rock the water.
Tickling the flowers let me cross the garden
Inhaling the intoxicating fragrance abound
Sweat out with me in a haystack or soak in the rain
In a musical euphony let passions spill.
Let me drink from the arch of your palm
Water from a brook crystalline,
Light me a bonfire under the starry sky.
While my favourite tune takes me to euphoric high.
Let colourful candles illuminate the balcony
For ephemeral sights to create lasting memoirs.
Prior to the candles on my grave are lit.
O Life, with pleasure my soul invigorate.
Before the end impinges all vivacity.
And the gray clouds shroud the sun
Muffling its golden rays without a sound.
Before the delicate chord breaks
And a deep slumber overtakes.
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