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She often reminds me of "Annabel Lee"

And I often look up

At the slowly rising stars

And smoke away a cigar

While flipping through her photographs

In my digital camera...

Love has a control all its own

On all true lovers

And I am not different

She and I are incurable romantics

So we were bound to meet

And interact and fall in love

The heart is a strange organ

Full of deep and often concealed feelings

And my love for my beloved, rare woman

Is also a "many splendourous thing"

Is it a "Roman Holiday"?

Or is it "Laila and Majnu"?*

Or is it going to be

Like it was for Heathcliff

And his undying love for his sweet Cathy?

I cannot get to grapple

With the mysteries that love hides

So skillfully in our hearts

Only to make us long and pine

To be each other's forever

May God's will let it be so...

(Written and posted by Muhammad Naveed Ahmed/Emmenay on February 19, 2011).