A Dream

I dreamt about her yesterday,

it was very vague, the setting,

she was clad in her usual floral blouse,

sitting on her usual wooden chair.

I was kneeling before her,

holding her hand, her soft cold hands,

i asked her, "please stay with me",

she replied, only, an undecipherable whisper,

Then i heard weeping from afar,

my cousins' hands, on my shoulders,

gripping me from falling,

from falling of my bed,

I was awake and abruptly, i sat,

staring into the darkness,

Thinking, longing,

for those countless sweet conversations,

and for that one simple last goodbye.

*alfatihah*