You coud cut the distance then
Between us, and now you come when
I have left the living years of times ago,
Together we had shared no tomorrow,
Only too many todays,
Oh, and our ****** father and his ways!
So much lost in the rain,
We now shake over in  pain!
A world of give, and no receive!
In silence we look, in sacrifise conceive--
Loved faces are gone,
Here come new ones,  with our ways
         done!

                                               by
                                  Hakim H. Kassim
                            (d. September 13, 2016).