Innocent Love

Amid the mighty Arabian she was born and bred A girl as delicate as the sweet smelling rose For food she took the camel’s milk and choicest white bread And a beauty mark she had at the base of her nose A soft veil of satin covered her head And amongst all the knights that at her command rose She choose a mysterious stranger in her desert town Long of limbs and tanned chocolate brown Her love she conveyed with kohl black eyes Her deep flowing desire by the tinniest of touch so warm She did not pay heed to any well meaning advice For in her life was raging a new storm Their hearts were joined with divinely ties It had no human body or a concrete form She had never touched or kissed those lips Nor felt his heart with those soft white fingertips With him she left the desert on the night of no moon True in her faith, love soaring ever so high His merest touch and warm breath made her swoon When he placed her amid his powerful thigh And on they rode over every treacherous dune When tired on the beautiful oasis sand did lie A love that began through the language of the eyes Became the legend for which many a lover dies By- Tahera Mannan