Wipe My Tears

Silent tears
flowing down my cheeks,
represent the thoughts
fogging my mind all these weeks.

Wipe my tears
before they get soaked in my heart,
for once they reach there
they would then become inseparable part.
Tears and pain
would be all that life would then be about,
because the soaked tears
would be difficult to throw out.

I lay on bed, crying night after night
waiting for things to be right,
but life simply does not want me to smile
and causes me pain all the while.

You had done it earlier,
you can do it now,
come to my rescue
and make me smile somehow.
I don't know whom to trust
IF not you,
I could think of no one but you.

Wipe my tears
and give me a reason to smile,
hold my hand
and sit besides me for a while.      


Arti D. Honrao
[Dedicated to my friend Anita]