THE CRAZY FEELING CALLED LOVE

Its amazing this feeling of craving and yearning, the wait, the restlessness, the tossing in the bed. That is the crazy feeling called love. It can make you, it can break you, but what is it exactly?
Lyrics and epics have been written about this emotion and expression by hordes of poets and authors and yet it still remains as something so magnificent a feeling and indescribable so very accurately.

For some love is a feeling that makes the heart rate rise, for others it is a hormone that makes our race survive. For me it is a feeling most sublime and ethereal, a feeling so divine when it touches you it lights up your life. A lovely trick designed by nature to give vent to superfluous words and emotions within you.

But what would you call this experience of falling in love again in the latter half of your life, when you have reached a stage which tells you ALL IS OVER. The butterflies in the stomach when someone looks into your eyes and tells you that they love you. Imagine what magic this could create and what feelings it could evoke. Having fallen in love very young and having experienced it in the teens, that was a different level and world altogether - more of an infatuation, a crush, attraction call it what you may. But now......... it is a sense of maturity, a bonding you know that will not wear out.

In reality, love has just moved on to a new phase, and one wherein you feel at times you have no right to assert on the person you love, cant give in completely and yet feel so close at heart, intermingled into one soul. This is not a temporary madness and we need this madness to keep our spirits and heart young. To feel emotional like you once were, to live the staid part of your life interestingly.

Part of the problem is that these emotions are as complex as a computer manual, very difficult to judge it as right and wrong. But is there anything so good that can substitute for a touch of a hand in hand, caress of the face of the other, tenderness of his presence, her smile? Are these not steps to the discovery of the other as a person in their totality... in a bonding called LOVE, so ENIGMATIC and yet so MAGICAL?

THE LOVE WE SHARE

It is just once in a life time
That you find someone who
Touches not only your heart but also your soul
It is not always that you discover someone
Who can stand beside you in thick and thin
It is not always that you find a soul
Who loves you for who you are
And this is the reason I will be grateful
To know you are in love with me
For love is the only reason that binds both of us
And it is heavenly to love someone so passionate like you
The fact that we are two people
Having one soul in two bodies sharing the same emotions
What more could I WANT?

TALES THE FLOWERS TELL

Oh Almighty! Another new day that you have bestowed
And here I am in front of you with hands held out in prayer
My offering today is just a prayer sans the flowers
Which otherwise adorn your idol daily
Pardon me for this, but let me narrate what caused this.
I went out to the garden to get some flowers
My offering which I make to you without fail every day
But what moved my heart will surely melt yours too,
The jasmine creeper in all its bloom cried out to me thus
“O ye, stop there! We are just a few hours old and yet to taste
The love of our mother completely, Don’t you dare separate us from her!”
And I stopped and moved ahead to the fragrant rose which spake thus:
“You of the benevolent human race, who is known for achievements rare
Born in the land of the Buddha.
Where has all that natural sympathy and humanity vanished?
That you are out here today to mercilessly uproot us and see us wilt.”
Having no heart or the courage to proceed further
I retraced my steps to your abode
With the most humble offer – MY PRAYER knowing well this is ALL THAT I CAN OFFER AND STILL NOT HARM THIS BEAUTIFUL CREATION OF YOURS.