A Lover's Ambition Poem by Tawfeeq Hasan Khan

The day you met me for the first time,
Your footsteps in my ears created chime.
Your thoughts dug in my mind a deep hole,
As you occupied a space in my heart and soul...
When I glanced at you,
You turned your view.
Was it a sign of shame or anguish,
Which I could never ever distinguish.
I will wait for you like a painted still,
As I loved you once and always will...
You never shared your view,
Nor even I shared it to you.
But a flawless love still do shines through our faces
That we love each other from hearts’ core to its surfaces.
We may not see the sun of tomorrow,
Or even today’s dusk who does know?
But my wish for love do will only die
When it will be fulfilled with a sigh...
I will wait for you like a painted still,
As I loved you once and always will...
When I was weak, you have been my power.
When I was sad, you came to me as a flower.
Remember this, neither you are one nor I,
As we are one since we did born till we die...
O God! the pursuer of heavenly pursuit,
Embed her happiness in mine as your tribute.
I will wait for you like a painted still,
As I loved you once and always will...
Don’t ever feel force from above,
Just understand my quest for love.
I not only want to stay with you on earth I cry,
But also to stay together forever even after we die...
I don’t want us for our deeds to muffle
Which I would surely like to shuffle,
And divide them unbiased among us,
So to travel together in hades’ or paradise’s bus.
I will wait for you like a painted still,
As I loved you once and always will...
Whenever my misdeeds made you bitterly weep,
Your tears dropped in my eyes and didn’t let me sleep...
But whenever before, your misdeeds made me bitterly weep,
So as not to awaken you, it were my eyes where those tears I did keep...
As I’ve told that I will wait for you like a painted still,
Just because I have loved you once and always will...