You Will Never Know

• Arsheen Aslam, Grade 12
• Poetry
• 2013

Befriending dark and lonely nights,
These misleading paths leave me despondent,
The words written by your memories do I hear,
Some parts of me detached away.

Eclipses do not unrovel easily,
The heart is such that,
No matter how hopeless,
It will still disentangle.

The ocean is made from drops,
The veil from threads,
Slowly, slowly… you will adorn your life-
let there be a moment,
Today or tomorrow it will be kind.

You let me know,
When you’re ready to love,
And I will rush to your side,
To sweep you in my arms…

My sleep cries in the corners of my eyelids,
The tears injure my heart,
But I still try very hard, although my heart-
is falling apart…