Compilation of Poetry Tales Life is short. Art long. Opportunity is fleeting. Experience treacherous. Judgement difficult. - Hippocrates Broken Branch’ a poem by J Ahmed Broken Branch, The loss of chance, Unspoken words, They linger, Evoking thoughts, Those tides that caught, My friend, And sent them under. The wind had changed, My face was stuck, The day I heard the news, My friend, Who was my friend for years, Was now from earth removed. I shed a tear, Lamented long, And thought of the affects, The butterfly, The six degrees, The hours I did reflect. Eventually, I realised, Out of more than just respect, I owed it to my friend now gone, To fight and not regret. Never to forget – Always in loving memory, Of all the broken branches, And all the fallen trees... ‘J’.Ahmed. Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason." — Novalis Love is the expression of the one who loves, not of the one who is loved. Those who think they can love only the people they prefer do not love at all. Love discovers truths about individuals that others cannot see” ― Soren Kierkegaard Letters of kisses, I can’t forget, secret wishes are unfilled, is what I forget, Kindred souls yearning for another to fill the void, and critical attitudes can only destroy, Buoyant and sublime devotions increase our joy, Sometimes the best seduction is transient or too intense, Like ascending beyond the banalities of the earth and to the clouds can be immense, A feeling is almost inexplicable to describe, isolated, as you stood by me in the lab and on the sides. My greatest wish was to walk with you through the aisle. Imperfect and disenchanted world can pull us away and after our expiration on earth can possibly in union of two souls can peacefully and matrimonial drift away. – Jeff Damulira