I saw you close, features clear, discerned.
You are not anyone, not just another face.
Not something seen in passing, ignored or noticed.
Not just something, like litter, noticed in the storm.
For you cannot be that, not someone in a car passing.
A stranger a flash or glimpse
Like falling or fallen stars or a rainbow ending.
No you are a life, a journey, a beautiful song.
You are a masterpiece, a treasured painting.
A holy artifact, a melody for my day times
An anthem for my nights and a precious lullaby.
So how could you just fade away?
Or be lost in the snow storm?
Or be caught in the desert winds, drifting out into endless dunes.
Reclaimed by the hungry sands
That know well your beauty.
That have seen you wild, Huda.
Oh Princess of Yemeni
Oh Saharan Queen
Songs for Huda 