Oh I wish
Sweetheart
How painful for me
To watch your tear
Saying good-bye to mine
Oh how I wish
To have been your fingernail
Not even death could split us apart
Eternal union
Oh how I wish
To have been an eyelash shielding your eyes
As they close
You’d be the last thing I see
Oh how I wish
To have been a thread in your keffen*
It would’ve been the perfect excuse
To be buried with you
Oh how I wish
To have been a tiny cell in your heart
So I wouldn’t have to live one moment there after
Or face the world alone… without you
Sweetheart
How painful for you
Watching my tear
Saying good-bye to yours
02-11-2006
Keffen: a white piece of fabric that a dead person is shrouded with in the Muslim culture
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