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shokeen123
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You have been gone
For nearly a decade now
Yet if feels
As if just yesterday
You were here
Sharing your love
Tending chores
Invincible, indispensable,
A permanent fixture
On the landscape
As life sailed by
Today
You are a fond memory
Held tightly in our aching hearts
Why have you been taken away?
From us O dearest why?
Why did you have to leave soon?
As I sit in pain
Mixed with anticipation
Thinking about you
How nice it would be
To see your face
Just one more time
If only I could turn the clock
Rewrite the past
I would trade places
Add a happier ending
The essence of you
Is all I needed
To pull me through
The endless maze
I wouldn’t feel so bad
If I were there
To keep you company
A you find your way
Around that new place
But you wouldn’t have wished that
I know if you had your way
Things would have been picture perfect
But that was not to be
So much has happened
Since you have been gone
Yet so much didn’t happen
It just froze in time
Time never stops
There have been
Lots of happy days
Lots of new memories
And so many new faces
A renewed sense of hope
A new kind of endurance
Has somehow ended the misty haze
Wishing is all I have left to hold onto
As I pick up the pieces of life
I take comfort in the fact
that you’re somewhere in the heavens
looking down on all of us
Last night
The stars in the northern skies
seemed so much brighter
There was a halo around the moon
An enchanting moment
So quite and serene
As the cool breeze
caressed my brow
I heard a silent sigh
A footstep and a tear
Perhaps, just perhaps
you were somwwhere around…
I have faith that one day
we’ll meet each other again
somewhere far, close to eternity
Until that day, I’ll be thinking of you
and remembering the times we had
please wait for me
until I make my way there...
For my beloved sister "Bala" who left us on February 11, 1995
PS: The book "Bala Child of India" now out of print was written on my sister in 1968, when she was barely 6. She died of cancer at age 40.
For nearly a decade now
Yet if feels
As if just yesterday
You were here
Sharing your love
Tending chores
Invincible, indispensable,
A permanent fixture
On the landscape
As life sailed by
Today
You are a fond memory
Held tightly in our aching hearts
Why have you been taken away?
From us O dearest why?
Why did you have to leave soon?
As I sit in pain
Mixed with anticipation
Thinking about you
How nice it would be
To see your face
Just one more time
If only I could turn the clock
Rewrite the past
I would trade places
Add a happier ending
The essence of you
Is all I needed
To pull me through
The endless maze
I wouldn’t feel so bad
If I were there
To keep you company
A you find your way
Around that new place
But you wouldn’t have wished that
I know if you had your way
Things would have been picture perfect
But that was not to be
So much has happened
Since you have been gone
Yet so much didn’t happen
It just froze in time
Time never stops
There have been
Lots of happy days
Lots of new memories
And so many new faces
A renewed sense of hope
A new kind of endurance
Has somehow ended the misty haze
Wishing is all I have left to hold onto
As I pick up the pieces of life
I take comfort in the fact
that you’re somewhere in the heavens
looking down on all of us
Last night
The stars in the northern skies
seemed so much brighter
There was a halo around the moon
An enchanting moment
So quite and serene
As the cool breeze
caressed my brow
I heard a silent sigh
A footstep and a tear
Perhaps, just perhaps
you were somwwhere around…
I have faith that one day
we’ll meet each other again
somewhere far, close to eternity
Until that day, I’ll be thinking of you
and remembering the times we had
please wait for me
until I make my way there...
For my beloved sister "Bala" who left us on February 11, 1995
PS: The book "Bala Child of India" now out of print was written on my sister in 1968, when she was barely 6. She died of cancer at age 40.