Ode to Colonel Fazly Laphir

My dearest darling Fazly,

When I get numb with the
'Missing you' feeling
You roll in as a wave
And get me moving

Sometimes you arrive as the sunrise
Sometimes as the sunset
Clouds, bird or a butterfly
Winds that flow soft

You appear as Venus
The bright evening star
When sleep disappears
You smile as the moon from a far

One day you are there
as a hum of a song
On another
even as the 'blue' train's horn
You are the beautiful flower
That blooms in the terrace
Or the new colour
that appears in my palette

As a mild fragrance
on a frail day
A calm rhythmic prayer
after a hard way
I'm waiting for the day
that you'll come and say,
'I will not leave you.
I've come back to stay'

Your ever loving Ano

Colonel Fazly Laphir, PWV. RWP. RSP. Commanding Officer, 1st Regiment Special Forces, died in action on July 19, 1996 while on a rescue mission in Mullaitivu.