LOVE LOST-1.

alone you had for me the words to soothe,
you alone could touch my heart in truth--

i remember first you  kissed without a
          sigh,
and that answered for me any possible
          why;

you called-out to my soul for home,
and i then sought myself no longer to
          roam,

and ever since then i find you close and
          dear,
never too far away, you were always
          near:

no more! for you're on my lap no more!
          no more!
so much alone here's sickening and sore!

in the bleak December eve dark with
         wintry  breeze,
in my only thought are but images of you
         grasping, to caress ---

over the fire in my heart,  O! dream that
         never was, as i in my mind fall into
              unquiet pose:

a willing casualty in anticipated dream
         that, with me, has become but a soul
              in stream--

of tears, of pain and love, of you,
stark reality, an ever-flowing end too!
             
                                          ­  -by
                                Hakim H. Kassim.
                                (d. 2021)