The One I Lost
To The One I Lost Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Anoucheka Gangabissoon
Placed 3rd
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Like a nymph from Arden,
She entered my life’s garden.
Like lightning to me, she came;
For me, she was an ideal dame.
As feminine as a jasmine flower,
She found in me a protective bower.
I traced sweet nectar in her talk,
And a dancing swan in her walk.
Her floating hair for me was a cascade,
Placing my face in it, like a child I played.
Listening to the sounds her anklets made,
In rapturous mood, my head I swayed.
Arm in arm, in all kinds of weather,
Like love birds, we moved together.
People’s evil eye badly cast on us;
Like wild fire, it led to a deadly fuss.
Against us, our own damn cultures,
Played in disguise the roles of vultures.
They rested not until we parted,
And to heaven our souls departed.
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