When I had walked by you, <br />I saw you as the pretty buds, <br />I had no time to touch, <br />When I had passed by you, <br />I observed you smile at me, <br />As the beautiful flowers, <br />The perfume from you, <br />Reached my nose, felt great, <br />I had no time to hold you, <br />For a while to appreciate, <br />For what you had gone through, <br />Suddenly I have the revelation, <br />Someone has sent me during dream, <br />I am startled and I do feel weak, <br />Walk to your wonderful garden, <br />I see you gone, empty beds, <br />Empty closets, all are removed, <br />I pick up something from the floor, <br />There is a petal, but wrinkled, <br />Which I had never noticed, <br />Pursuit for the skirts, shirts and wealth, <br />Have ruined the hearts with immense wrath, <br />I take that petal to my house, <br />To frame and keep as the remembrance, <br />Once we were together as the father and the son, <br />Once we were together as the mother and the daughter, <br />Once we were together as the parents and the kids, <br />Once we were together as the wife and the husband, <br />Once we were together and once we were together.<br /><br />veeraiyah subbulakshmi<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/once-we-were-together/
