love

On my path of rediscovering,

Learning again after unlearning,

I realised that everything condenses 

To the very form 'love'.

The agony and ecstasy sprouts

From the same!

Every delight and dismay

Roots from the same - 'love'!

I went again and opened that book-

Where wisdom was scattered,

I was unlearning that too…

I started writing down,

Remembering my mother

Telling me being a kid;

When you write you understand better…

I wrote: 'Love is patient and kind…'

My eyes were getting wet,

As I ended: 'Love never ends.'

I could feel a stream 

Flowing down my cheeks.

I stuck it at my kitchen cupboard-

That I see it more,

Assimilate and try to imbibe in…

The love that is divine doesn't hurt,

Doesn't make us heavy-

But light, as light as a feather,

That we fly in the fragrant breeze,

Savouring the beauty around.

It rang- 'love others as you love yourself'

I had forgotten to love me.

How can you love someone

Until you love yourself?

Everything is to be interpreted

With compassion-

Lest every word goes in vain.