My Annabelle Lee (A Rendition of Edgar Allan Poe’s “Annabelle Lee”)

Ahmed Jibal
1 min readApr 6, 2020
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Dear Annabelle Lee-

It has been many years;

Still I think, that our love is the strongest.

Is it the God’s plan that we aren’t together!

I miss your hair, your taste

And the smell you bear-

The warmth in our hugs are still in my mind-

But here I am- without you, missing your everything!

My Annabelle Lee-

It has been many years;

Still I want to love and be loved by you.

The night is young and alone I stand-

Sigh! We are thousands of miles apart.

Again and Again I ask myself-

How can we be together?

A question, I don’t even know how to answer.

Oh! Annabelle Lee-

They say- it’s a match made in Heaven

But why the Angels have conspired against Us!

Shouldn’t we love and be loved by each other?

I ask you Angels-

Why are we still serving in Hell?

So, is it better to serve in Hell-

Rather than to reign in Heaven!

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Ahmed Jibal

Proud Cat-Dad| Ex-EWU| Poet| Passion for Literature| Doing MA at Universität Potsdam| Photography: https://www.flickr.com/photos/ahmedjibalmanar/