Till Our Next Meeting

The sound of a plane that's come to landing And in a nearly empty room of arrivals I find myself standing The electronic board lights up and tells me the passengers are disembarking  And I'm reminded of a feeling of longing and wanting To embrace a woman my whole life I've been loving  In mere minutes, that once empty hall is filled with  a hundred eager eyes  And in a myriad of faces, I catch hers And my once empty heart is filled with a hundred fireflies I held her hand, soft as creamy butter, as the perfect mold of dough  And I wondered where did all those 50 something years go And where she managed to draw the strength to combat her sorrow  Being away from her family to fight the war waged for a bright tomorrow   I look at her face, artificially whitened from years of radiation yet filled with a youthful shine  Her worries and doubts she held clandestine Replaced it with courage, so a good education would be mine  A...

When I was a girl I was filled with a mountain of fallacies and superstitions Mommy said she thought kissing a guy would lead to impregnation That her first kiss was at the altar, sealing God’s permission And so I went through teenage years hiding any sign I was a girl Binding my breasts with cloth so my femininity wouldn't unfurl The thought of being in a relationship would make me hurl My grandma said to ward off men I should wear a pearl They said That to men women owed their devotion Keep the house tidy , tend to chores, love without condition If my husband looks away, it's my duty to do whatever means to make him stay They preached my best strategy is to pray, pray and pray And hope he comes home at the end of the day That marriage should be girls primary aspiration And bearing a child was life's greatest fruition And divorce would inevitably lead to society's condemnation  If your child turned out to be gay, that just means he's gone astray...