DESIRES

Lament (Vilaap)   Neither letting my heart laugh, nor letting it cry An insidious arrow, which is neither killing nor living There is no cure For this wound But Who keeps the scabs No one but I will As it speaks of you through the veins, through the blood Doesn’t matter as it flows inside or outside of my body   You took away me from me, my breath, my heart, my everything but you can’t take my ache of heart Who still yearns for you Like an owner with no entity, no permission You had the original There is no copy.   Keep me your solace Keep me your protector Keep me your clown Keep me your closet But keep me near you Now it is the flower which is growing, cheeky, orphan, landless Who wants a shelter with you Who wants to reside with you Neither letting my heart laugh, nor letting it cry An insidious arrow, which is neither killing nor living There is no cure For this wound

                                                           DESIRE Have you ever had the experience of recognizing you were having a detrimental effect on someone you love ? What a humbling admission to make . To know that despite to desires to always elevate those around us , we might actually be doing the opposite . What do we do then? What does choosing love look like ? There is no right answer because love is not empirical . It is relative to the giver , receiver and observer . What you think is a loving decision may not be how someone else would choose love , and so trying to make choices based off  of someone else's definition will always leave you fearful of screwing it up and when you get it "right" you'll more often than not breath of sigh of relief instead of an exclamation of celebration . So choose love fo...