Hope and prayer - Vaidya Shankar

Whenever I hear the doorbell ring,

My Soul, it begins to joyfully sing,

Hoping it be the man that gave my wedding ring.

But soon disappointed, my hands I do wring.

And when the phone begins to ring,

Wild hope again takes to wing,

Only to know that too was nothing.

In frustration, towards the heavens my arms I fling,

But still resolving- to prayer and hope to cling,

That some day, he will return,-my beloved man whom I wear as a ring.