This Miraculous Green Home

I'm giving a sigh for days gone by
Of those I remember, and those I forgot
On this fleeting stare for a sun well-set
For this smooth dry wall and dusty old floor

And this sweet, sweet palace; this miraculous green home
Is all but a glimpse to the eyes of time
For 'tis a home that I've lived and sighed
A place I long thought would last forever

But soon this too will also move on
Just like the days I've spent in my college
The old sweet school of my faded teens
The much earlier one that cradled my childhood
The house that I've spent before all those times
And a place far beyond, the house of my birth

And fade it would be, to just another memory
To join all my love, in the place called the Past
The place that I know, I could never go to
And I know it this time, that it will be for real...

And as I stand on the eve of my new life
This miraculous green house, the home of my youth
Will only be just a fleeting moment in times long past
This day, this final evening of my life just starting
That signifies the end of my life in the shadows
Of which that keeps on repeating itself of late

Just like the last days of ITM Pahang
The white orange sunset of my lecture hall

The moment so vague of my last of last days
In Sekolah Menengah Dato's Sri Amar Diraja Muar

Of my final of final days even before that
The gloomy half-remembering
In the hall of Sekolah Rendah Kebangsaan Ismail Satu

The days of this house before I went to school
And even further beyond
To the first house of my birth...

But soon these too will become a memory
To join all the memories in the land called the Past
For i'm bound to the present on a one-way train for the future
Cannot escape from it, so there, the end!

Yours Truly,

Saiful Nizam Shukor
KL
2008