The One I Lost

To The One I Lost Poetry Contest Sponsored by: Anoucheka Gangabissoon Placed 3rd --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Like a nymph from Arden, She entered my life’s garden. Like lightning to me, she came; For me, she was an ideal dame. As feminine as a jasmine flower, She found in me a protective bower. I traced sweet nectar in her talk, And a dancing swan in her walk. Her floating hair for me was a cascade, Placing my face in it, like a child I played. Listening to the sounds her anklets made, In rapturous mood, my head I swayed. Arm in arm, in all kinds of weather, Like love birds, we moved together. People’s evil eye badly cast on us; Like wild fire, it led to a deadly fuss. Against us, our own damn cultures, Played in disguise the roles of vultures. They rested not until we parted, And to heaven our souls departed.