You Never Fly By Twice
You fade into the mind
Not from it
The cold, heartless world
Shivered at the warmth of your breath
You sang to deaf hearts
Hoping they would dance for you
A nightingale singing to the gales of winter
A dandelion against the wind
A comet
You never fly by twice at daybreak
Tomorrow would bring you back
I wish upon you but we both know
To the River Styx, we never cross twice
A wild rose by a frozen river
A goddess of spring and dawn who —
Walked this Earth with grace
You rained life into dry souls
You burned wisdom into the minds
You burned
Evanescent you will never truly be
The living may forget you
But never will your fingerprints leave my soul
The thumb of time may erase a letter
From your name today
Another, it may erase tomorrow
With these hands, I will rewrite your name
When death asks for my name
Yours and mine, intertwined will remain
Her name was Nesrine [Wild Rose]…She was my best friend, my guardian angel, and my fairy godmother. She had more life and more wamrth in her than a summer day. She laughed, she cried, she suffered, she passed. She left this world last year but her memory will live with me until the last day.
