Silent Sighs, a narrative poem by Asif Sultan Matta
Silent Sighs 06-01-2017 Asif Sultan Matta ‘Big snowy flakes falling from the sky’ In her sleep, she can hear her mother’s cry. A cozy blanket and white snug duvet Swathed over her, allow her not to rise Off her bed, in her own dreams she’s to fly… She is dreaming… Dreaming of snow… She tweaks the quilt down and steals a look To the window and beholds the shower of white bits. Reluctant is she to venture out, But this beguiling view, her appetite shook. Slithering her sight through white flakes, Toiling to see her sister’s cherry face, Among other girls, building an effigy of snow With their tender shivering scarlet hands, As she was astir and drew off window’s drapes. But she preferred to enjoy seeing them playing And coach the small girls in structuring, and rebuke When they fell into the scuffle of snow-pelting She darted her eyes above up sky Looking for the end where snow come from, She ends up feeling soaring up, high Speedy and fluttering her wings ...