Lover Adrift Poem by Ibrar Siddiqi

Years ago,
I fell in love.
Fate, gave me that karmic shove.
Put you in my sight
Heavenly delight.
Given into pressure,
all we do is hate and fight.
I want to get away,
for a night and day.
Come back to you, I feel blue.
Our ship,
I don't want it to sink.
To the continent of loneliness
, I'd hate to think,
Travelled all over,
familar like my hand.
Wondered why,
I wanted to be loved so much.

You're off on your own course,
like a sailing ship.
While I, in a lifeboat,
drift where the currents take me.
Me in the distance. you on the stern,
Bare me no love. bare me no concern.
Lover adrift.

I Siddiqi 30/7/2010