Prayer

You are all that is lovely and light,

Aziza whom I adore,

And, waking, after the night,

I am weary with dreams of you.

Every nerve in my heart is tense and sore

As I rise to another morning apart from you.

I dream of your luminous eyes,

Aziza whom I adore!

Of the ruffled silk of your hair,

I dream, and the dreams are lies.

But I love them, knowing no more

Will ever be mine of you

Aziza, my life’s despair.

I would burn for a thousand days,

Aziza whom I adore,

Be tortured, slain, in unheard of ways

If you pitied the pain I bore.

You pity! Your bright eyes, fastened on other things,

Are keener to sting my soul, than scorpion stings!

You are all that is lovely to me,

All that is light,

One white rose in a Desert of weariness.

I only live in the night,

The night, with its fair false dreams of you,

You and your loveliness.

Give me your love for a day,

A night, an hour:

If the wages of sin are Death

I am willing to pay.

What is my life but a breath

Of passion burning away?

Away for an unplucked flower.

O Aziza whom I adore,

Aziza my one delight,

Only one night, I will die before day,

And trouble your life no more.

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Poems in English 

• Without You by Miraj Patel by Poetry In English
• Wild Soul by Michael Yuan by Poetry In English
• Why Me? by Michael Yuan by Poetry In English
• Why Do All Good Things Come To An End? by Michael Yuan by Poetry In English
• Urban Caterpillar by Minal Sarosh by Poetry In English
• Umbrella by Mike Yuan by Poetry In English
• To A Sad Daughter by Michael Ondaatje by Michael Ondaatje
• There Can Never Be Another You by Miraj Patel by Poetry In English
• Their Reposessions by Michael P Amram by Poetry In English
• The Wild Goose’s Will by Mike Yuan by Poetry In English
• The Tree and the Marble by Mike Yuan by Poetry In English
• The Time Around Scars by Michael Ondaatje by Michael Ondaatje
• The Only One I Can’t Live Without, Its You by Miraj Patel by Poetry In English
• The Only One I Can’t Live Without, Its You by Miraj Patel by Poetry In English
• The Natural History of Elephants by Milton Acorn by Poetry In English
• The lords above by Michael Nikoletseas by Poetry In English
• The Lonely Climber: A Seed Poem by Mike Yuan by Poetry In English
• The King by Michael Yuan by Poetry In English
• The Island by Milton Acorn by Poetry In English
• The Fraser River by Mike Yuan by Poetry In English

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