Sonnet

Let me take your hand and walk

beside you, following with closed eyes

it matters not if  light shines or in dark

With you I am in my paradise.

Whisper; let me hear your voice -

sweetest song I have learnt and known

Fills my heart with joy, in trance

I follow the melody, in search of you alone.

Let me see your face close to mine

All your emotions to decipher and read

Lost in thoughts, I stay lost in time,

Your eyes are the paradise I need.

Time’s winged chariot is racing they say

So let me live it with you till the end of my day.

A dream that remains unfulfilled shatters into countless pieces my heart,

Futilely I bend to gather the million shards, blowing away, apart.

I chase to catch the countless pieces before they are forever lost in sand,

But what I hold so tightly slips through the crevices of my ruddy hand.