Whenever I
Remember and try
To reason why
You bade me bye!
Before I
Could say hi!
A part of me die.

Now I
Know why
You did fly
Away from my
eye
leaving my love to die,
eyes to cry
heart to sigh.
I know why
You told me a lie.

By Dorji Penjore, 1996.

Taken from Ninety-nine Tsangmo and Other College Poems (upcoming).

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