Fill My Heart With Spring

by Bilquis Fatima

I can hear the birds sing

For sure it is the song of spring.

The winter gray has faded away,

And nature enchants with its colorful display.

Squirrels wake up from wintry slumber

Embarking on their marathon number.

Meandering bees collect drops of nectar  

To nodding blooms softly whisper.

Verily coldness of hearts too melts away

As season of festivities is in full sway

Somewhere a limping heart looks at the sky

Praying to be given another try.

For it too is entitled to colors of spring

When dreams and fantasies take wings  

To walk the valley where elixir flows,

Unmindful of woes and throes.

Verily each life yearns for blissful reasons

So to start afresh, let spring be the season.

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Bilquis Fatima, a lover of the greens, music and speaker for social issues, has allowed her

feelings to be expressed as short writings, speeches and poems. She is a postgraduate in

Chemistry and has keen interest in poetry, writing in English and Urdu, with her debut

book being ‘POETIC AROMA.’ Her works have been published in Indian and International

literary spheres like Sahitya Anand, Destiny Poets U.K, Spillwords, and Writing in a

Woman’s Voice.