She smiled to him,
He held her hand,
The day was ending,
Watching it end,
They lay in the sand.
Their eyes played hide and seek,
The moment being immortalized,
In their hearts and minds.

She looks at them,
They smile back,
She protects their world,
She lives to protect them.
Her children, her life,
She a mother, a wife,
While the cookies she made,
Hide and seek the children played,
Her perfect world,
Their childhood never pass.

Let’s play hide and seek tonight,
For the night is young and the stars are bright,
The world holds the outer pains,
But let them seek,
For together from the world we hide.

It was cold city night,
The hours with sounds dying,
It seemed life had escaped,
To the other side of the world,
I rocked for hours with my child in my hands,
I dreamt about her life to come,
Like I often did,
A little eased at the fever subsided.
As I slipped into the clutches of sweet slumber,
My head slumped down,
In what seemed like a blink of an eye,
My head swung up to search the sky,
Where the gold of the sun
Seemed to chase away the night,
But there was something not right,
The morning seemed to bring a sense of change,
Not of the good kind.
As I felt my child, burning up like the coming sun,
I hurried my way to the physician,
Like a saint he answered to my prayer,
Asked me to wait behind while he tried to cure my life,
I never realized until he gave me the handkerchief,
That with my baby I’d been crying,
Her cries echoing foul against my ears,
I’m hurting as much on my helplessness
To take care of my child,
Who is part of my flesh,
Part of my being on the verge of...
Part of my being that I brought to life.
I began to sing to my baby a lullaby,
“Don’t cry my child, I’m here right by you,
For you I sing this lullaby, so you may fall asleep.
In the moonshine, your face glows,
You look like the princess
A queen you’ll grow up into,
Leave me someday for your king,
But till then be with me always,
Even when you learn to walk,
My child, so I can fulfill your wishes,
So you’ll remember me always,
So I can protect you till your king comes,
So I can teach you to walk and run.
Don’t cry, you make me cry too,
Sleep now my child, tomorrow
We’ll begin anew, for you’re alright,
This discomfort will pass… Oh look!
It’s already morn, the sun shines bright!
I see you’d fallen asleep,
While I kept dreaming on,
Open your eyes my child,
A new day has come.
As I finish, I realize that you stopped crying,
But to my plea, you never opened your eyes.

I’m trying hard to hear what you say,
But I’m busy being afraid that in every glance you make,
My racing heart be betrayed to you,
To you I’m hanging on,
I’m hanging on to your every word,
Cuz for you I’m falling,
I’m falling for you and getting crushed,
Where this will go in time, I don’t know,
I don’t know, in time if you’ll know, where I want us to go,
I don’t know if you’ll be mine,
Or I’ll let you forget there is a me you know

Sometimes, I hear
What occurs is for the best,
Then, could someone
Tell me how,
That when I fall in love
I fall and hit the ground?
Could someone tell me why,
The one I love,
I can never call mine?
Why every time I reach out,
I get burnt?
What is there for me,
But the scars?
Why do I see her through the glass,
Unable to reach out,
To the other side,
First distance wore me out,
Then time separated,
Last she told me not to love her,
Could I ever explain,
Once written
The words wouldn’t erase,
As my love always slipping away,
I see in despair
And wonder in pain,
How is it for the good,
When every time I fall in love,
I fall and hit the ground?

I wake in every day light,
In the after memory of us last moonshine,
Falling asleep slowly in each other’s words,
You weren’t familiar with what I felt,
Smiling to the thread of memory,
As you wake up to my chattering you smile back,
And I wonder if I could just tell you how much I love you now,
There seemed no words to be said,
The glimmer in your eyes,
Told me all that I needed to make me feel the lightness,
Of the safety of having you,
Like it made everything all right

Reflection of a million stars,
From shards of glass from a broken window,
Where the children lost their ball at play.

Such is the fate that defines,
I have all I need, not what I want,
I will still laugh it off,
Tell myself I’m not the only one lonely,
It happens to everyone sometime,
Then I feel to me it happens every other time,
Unable to hate everything despite being in silent misery,
I’m afraid I will get used to it,
Where the world doesn’t stop without you,
But it’s not the same as with you,
In glints of light I imagine your eyes sparkle,
But then everything I call beautiful,
Reminds me of you.