A Reply ...

I read this poem on someone's blog: "an ODE to LOVE. . . from FRIENDSHIP" and after a long time (around 6 months!!!! my longest gap ever) wrote a poem in reply to this. I haven't taken permission from the author but since I am giving him all due credits and also the link to his blog, I am hoping he will not mind.

If you really want to enjoy the poem below, I suggest you go and read the above first.

Here is the reply:

In reply  to an Ode to Love

To Friendship,

You waited and waited all these days,
In my heart to find your place,
Hoping one day, to fall into me ?
I was walking beside, you did not see.

You looked for falling stars at night.
Did you not see the stars that shined?
You say I belong to a chosen few
But then, did I not belong to you?

They warned you about the way I strike
You say you did not put up a fight
Did your belief in me not stagger-
That instance they painted me with dagger?

You believed them with so much ease
As they told you, what they pleased
And you realised I was not your friend
Tell me, who brought this friendship's end?

The life's mysteries that you talk about
Are what we both together bring out
It was never about you or me
It was 'us', you fail to see.

Don't you see there is a river betwixt
It is in there that life exists
We are but the banks of that river
We stay apart and yet move together

If you are not there, I cannot be
So are you, incomplete without me.
And yet we are not the one and the same
We are different shades with different name.
If I were to mingle into you or you to me,
Who will hold the stream that we carry?
How will the river reach its sea?
If you were to converge and merge with me?

Yes, we are each a different strand
I hope some day you will understand
In spite of being so much similar
Why is it that we are so far.
Who will hold those who get lost from me
If you are not there to take care and see?
Who will heal those who had to drift
Because they could not bear my gift

No, we are not one, we can never be
But still we are bound till eternity.

From Love

17th Sept 2009


PS: I had removed all my poems from my blog and had stopped posting them too but since this poem is a result of my visit to fellow blogger's space, this poem belongs to the blogworld :)

PPS: I don't know the blogger who wrote the other poem. So my poem is impersonal, unbiased and written only as a reply to that poem.