A Year Ends...

Another year draws to an end
And a new one waiting around the corner
To take a stroll down the road of Time
To leave its footsteps in the sands of Time
Footsteps that, like mine, will be erased soon

Another year has gone by,
With me yearning for you, for us,
To get together as we once were,
To walk together as we once did,
Walks that would live forever.

Another year has come along,
And I still walk alone,
To look for you, in every wave that passes,
To see if you have come back,
Searches that always end, in vain.

Years come and go, and nothing changes,
My pen and feet never tire,
They walk on and on, on paper and tar,
To see if the road of Life would bring them rest,
To see...if we would be together again...

A Tree's Wish

I went on a walk along the riverside road,
Dipping my feet in the river every now and then,
As the heat got to my barefoot soles, I stretched
Under one of the last remaining trees on the banks,
The tree was alone, as lonely as I felt at that moment,
So we gave each other company for a while,
He was one of the last few left, a painful witness he had been,

After watching his friends bid adieu, one after the other,
Making way for concrete and glass, neither spoke his tongue,
He had stood there, waiting, for his day to leave his birthplace.
In his desolation, he spoke to me, of his dying wish,
That he wanted, not to be a leg under a rich man’s table,
Or to be burnt at his fireplace, but to be made into a diary
To tell his story to kids who will never see a tree in its greenery.