WHEN I AM AWAKE

Every odd moments
When I'm awake,
My mind wandering
Meandering and rewinding.
Traversing my chequered past
Beyond the unknown destination
Of tomorrow.

How do I hope for happiness,
When there will be sorrow.
All these can come
And go in a row.

So hard to follow
What more to show.
It's not like a snow which I saw
Even in the darkness
It never fail to glow.

But when there's happiness,
My heart tends to grow.
Just like a prisoner
Who escapes the gallows

~ Rb Salleh