In the name of love

Still you are inching towards me

Inspite of your self-denial, he smiled

He was right

I neither had the insight

Nor the foresight

To analyze

Why at this phase 

He entered my life

When I was done with love

Initially, I dismissed him

Assuming him another of those traveler's

Checking out for any fissure

But there he was

Eloquently persuasive

And growing in me

Over few months

He weighed on my mind

Sleep became fragmented

Thoughts cluttered

Lost I was

After years

Not again, I defended

It will ache

He will eventually drift

And I, will be devastated

Not another blow

I had enough

To last a lifetime

But there he was

Had already opened a window

And here I am

Standing by the door

Deliberating

While he played the melody

Of love.

©LR