I Ask... Poem by Angelina Pandian

I ask you for a hug
You folded me in your arms
My heart which was crying
Became quite like a child
Safe in its mother’s arms
The turmoil which you asked
How it was? Was gone!
When you took me in your arms
It was a quelling of the storm!
Why don’t you go, when
Some one calls? You ask.
‘I ask for simple things in life
Hold my hand, take me out
A hug, a peck on my forehead
Would do, these are what I long for
Not just some physical release
The mind should first be free
Comfortable in good company
All else is loss in life I hold
I ask for happiness and now
When I am alive, I want to live,
At least for sometime’, I reply.