NEED YOU...

I need you when darkness looms,
Sitting, at night, alone in my room;
When hot tears deceive and burn my eyes
I need you then, to embrace me for a while.
But where are you mom?
When the moon does not peep inside,
Help me mom, I shake in fright.
Is someone here by my side?
Hold my hands and hug me tight?
To say: “Don’t worry child... I love you.”
How do I share my thoughts with you?
How do I say I love someone?
Where were you mom?
Where were you?
I need you mom.
My thirst is not satisfied,
Somebody help, I’m lost.
Try to understand my heart,
You are still here, we can never part.
In those dreadful nights, hug me tight,
Lull me to sleep with songs of paradise
In which I am the little queen
With dreams in my eyes,
Still waiting for my king...

Stuti Gupta
Class XI
St Joseph’s Convent High School, Patna