It wasn’t love what we had shared
that moonlit night watching the waves
when I found you in my arms
Absorbing, the moonlit sea
The blue moon stood watching
Shimmering blue water, like little pears afar
Waves crashing, eerily calming
Twinkling stars, and the two of us
The vast sky did note above
the two strangers who once knew each other
finding comfort in familiarity
but too tired with the familiar
Slowly each relationship had faded away
and people had become unfamiliar to us,
slowly, we had become unfamiliar to ourselves
realizing, relationships were what made us “us”
Moonlight shining on your face that night
I swear I don’t know a prettier sight
Desires grew I admit I curbed
‘coz what we had shared, it wasn’t love
Love seeks an aim to grow old together
love desires to wake up to a face everyday
to find the comfort of sleep, in arms
to share life, across time’s expanse
But love does not last as long as life
Inevitably and surely, love disappears
But life created together does not
yet you’re to share the journey, on and on
Love seeks to create legacies
those that are nourished with care and joy
Yet love doesn’t help in going through life
love brings together, and then bids goodbye
Life demands more than what love offers
Respect and calm and fighting with honor
It asks for unending everyday resolve
to see a face, and fall for it every time
For it takes courage to love someone as they are
to make room for someone else in your shell
to make home for someone else’s demons
in your own mind’s hell
And life does not demand love
It just seeks a long warm hug
That speaks everything the soul craves to hear
It says, “I understand. You’re not alone anymore”
That moonlit night watching the waves
when I found you in my arms
It wasn’t love what we had shared
but why does it have to be any less?
Vishal Gupta
4 Jul 2017
