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"You have woken up late"

It's funny how things change
It's pitiful how I'm stuck in it
All desires seem to fade
All wishes seem to end
Of those days,
On that mountain,
Peaceful and clam
A flower so dear
Gracious as her ascent
With thy scent, so lustrous
Sooting and envious are her petals
Slowly blooming up from her bud.
I was there admiring her
Waiting for its full bloom.
Days passed with eagerness
Months pass and then years
Until the day, I finally assumed
That sweet bud to be in her glory
Waiting for me like I have waited
Spreading its beauty, calling me,
To that mountain, we once met
Alas! How wrong I was!
I couldn't trace her
I couldn't feel her scent
She was far gone to someone else's garden
But a cold tear drop felt and
A soft shaky voice awakens in me:
"You have woken up late"
©Ermina Kam