(for my wife, Huda Hassan Osman)

  As on the wings of time I fly,
And pass over the years with no sigh,
  Winning and losing with no cry,
This prayer I make in all try:

  That I lose not your face night and day,
And find you by my side all the way,
  Then come what come may,
I shall have kept all gloom at bay.

                                           -by
                                  Hakim H. Kassim.
                                  (d. August 5, 2017)