A Painful Dream

-         Foez M Rahim

Last night! I saw you in my dream

You were so bright and beautiful

Together we were in a garden

And your breath was making the air cool.

We were in another world

Far from this earth bad peoples

Where there was only love allover

And birds and animals living in couples.

We were as free as butterflies

And we were having pleasures without any sound

But suddenly a devil came in our way

With great power and shaking the ground.

It was trying to take you away from me

But you didn’t disagree, I don’t know why?

I have been left there alone with my broken heart

                 -   And the wind shared my cry.

                    30^th October 1998