From Adam With Love

I walk with you my father

Among sweet young couples

Lingering in your warm shadows

Sheltering me like the blue umbrella

Like dust I dwell on your trail

Kissing your sacred feet

Battled you for thirty years

Scoping any weakness

Misjudging your veiled teachings

Forgive my childish disrespects

Now finally I bear fruit

You weathered me into full bloom

The mirror even tells the truth

Loudly of a slow and final death

Falling hair, skin, and bones

Pour you into me

There's no need to run

Nor to seek answers far away

I'm coming to a full stop now

To untie my burdens and undo

To re-examine our histories

To render new perspectives

I mature when I see you

Live forever in my heart

Fazeel Azeez Chauhan

11-1-98