Poems from the heart series #3

The Winter of My Disaffection

In the winter of my growing disaffection
You came, as if by divine intervention
Unobtrusively turning winter into spring
Gloom and darkness into hopeful beginning.

Savour the splendour and hues of the new season
Warm love pervades my entire environ
Your sweet smiles are always warmly overflowing
Filling my senses; enthralled is my thinking.

The rage within my desire
Arouses not my anger
Sweetness lingers and stays instead
Grief-stricken memories fade.

Summertime will surely arrive
Sure as the rhythms of life
Autumn shall remain pulsating
Winter’s no longer brooding.


This poem was written on 23/11/2003 in dedication to Mrs.Aw Tee Wan, with deep affection (this is a revised version of the original. Work was done to strengthen the metre). Mrs.Aw, you raised me up to more than I could ever be! Thank you.