If not now,
Then when,
Will I write about you:
My sweet, sweet rose?

By tomorrow,
Your well-crafted scene
Of colourful joy,
Will have disappeared

My pen,
Ah! my pen provides me
No power to value you,
When you are gone.

If not now,
Then when,
Will I write about you:
My sweet, sweet rose?

10th December 2012

Geeta Chhabra