ADIEU

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Image credit: [pixabay](https://www.pixabay.com) *I once had an enchanting goddess* *Who painted my sores with honey* *Her name like the gush of many waters* ----------------------------------------------- *My lover Ajuwaa* *When the sun rises at dawn* *I will remember your smile* ----------------------------------------------- *Come, come my friend* *Let me tell you a story* *Of how mother-earth turned a gift I treasured into dust* ----------------------------------------------- *How I now wander aimlessly in my dreams* *How I now let my tears flow freely down my cheeks so they create a dent in her memory* *Come my friend!* ----------------------------------------------- *Evil roamed the night* *The wind was merciless* *The udara tree had fallen* *So did your eyes—Till eternity* ----------------------------------------------- *You departed without warning* *Without a second thought* *And I wonder if you did not think of me* *Death's but a cruel tyrant* ----------------------------------------------- *Ajuwaa !* *This betrayal is a kind beyond pardon* *You promised we would always be together* *I took your word* *And registered it in the journal of my heart* ----------------------------------------------- *Oh lords of the grave!* *Tell Ajuwaa I'd be waiting* *Tell her I never stopped writing her name in the sands* *Tell her that like broken figurine* *I have been shattered to fine matter* ----------------------------------------------- *They come in different colours, sizes and shape* *But it's you my love i'd be waiting on* *Till we meet to part no more*