Dewdrops: A poem by Sahjahan Ali Ahmed

Dewdrops drop, drop by drop

From veils of the wintry morning,

And hang on to leaves of grass

As pearls of a queen's earring.

      

At the caress of the soft sweet sun

In delight  like gold, they glitter,

As in night sky around the moon  

Twinkle a million bright star.

      

Morning grows into noon soon.

Drop by drop, drops on the ground

Dewdrops, as beads from a torn

Rosary, never again to be found.

Life's a dewdrop on an arum leaf.

While life vibrates as violin's string

If dropped, like dropped dewdrop,

Vanishes like vapor, never seen.

Roses grow even in the deadly desert,

Drinking dewdrops ere they vanish .

Make life like sparkling dewdrops,

Ere as dropped dewdrop it finishes.