Adam

By Harmehma Kaur Bagga

I fell irrevocably in love with you the first time I saw  you on Library Road. 

Perhaps you felt it was infatuation, but for me, it was  invariably something more - 

So bitter was the Midlands wind that day that it had  stunned me absolutely cold. 

Then out of the blue, coming towards me, I witnessed this  divine creature that seraphically glowed. 

How all the feelings my poor heart couldn't even  comprehend out of me flowed. 

The second you saw me staring at you that way you should  have unequivocally known 

That from that very moment my heart belonged only to you  and to none else anymore. 

You see, I've loved you for a thousand years and I shall  love you for a thousand more: 

But tell me one thing, dearest, will my poor heart ever  be able to restore 

The assuring warmth it felt in your presence - have I  lost it forever more? 

In your eyes, lies the key to my absolute commiseration;

In your lips, lies the sweet familiarity of alliteration. 

In your smile, lies the reassuring ardour that is oft  missing from high society. 

Tell me, my dear, could I ever earn back your love with  grace and propriety? 

Indeed, I wish you all the best and all things more 

Whilst desperately longing for things to be like how they  were before. 

But tell me one thing, dearest, will my poor heart ever  be able to restore 

The assuring warmth it felt in your presence - have I lost it forever more?

By Harmehma Kaur Bagga