Measured Love
Measured Love
Measured Love
Doled out in doses
The exact prescribed amount
To keep a relationship from dying
It is only enough
To sustain the bare bones
The flesh has long withered
Dried up, an unused abandoned well
Where there was life once
Not even death wants to visit now
All that exists
Is the skeleton,
Protruding bones
Hollow cheeks and eyes that haunt
Still subsisting
On measured love
Starved now
There is not an ounce
Of energy or inclination left
To even beg
For a scrap of affection.
It is raining elsewhere though
It floods and drowns
At all the wrong places
Where it's not even appreciated
Yet the skeleton still stands
Blending in well
With the famine drenched land
Waiting patiently
For its daily dose
Of measured love.
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Why a sad poem?!?!?
ReplyDeleteAm i not allowed to feel sad? :) There is beauty in pain too.
ReplyDeletevery true mam... beauty lies in almost everything.. one just needs to live it.., no?
DeleteYep, there is beauty in pain. But always saw u writing happy posts.. I often end up writing sad poems... By the I just checked out ur website. And u have posted only one entry under "poetry". Where can I read more?
ReplyDeleteYou seem to be the ONLY person who has commented on this poem! And that is a first!! :) Thanks so much for the interest..I can see more than 40 poems..either click on the link at the end of this post or on the right side of the blog, see 'what you will find here' and you will find link to poetry.
ReplyDeletelove is one of the 3 aspects of brahma (existence and light being the other two). as such, it is beyond mind. and hence beyond science. ... (asti bhaati priyam)..
ReplyDeletelove sees unity. mind sees separation. btw, science is yet to explain the exact nature of light. can we observe the sun with anything other than sunlight?
Wonderful poem.. :)
ReplyDeleteThe measured love surely can keep the skeleton but its like worse than hell.. Unbridled love can only bring back life otherwise the skeleton will turn in to a zombie..:)
Sushobhan: So nicely said. i agree so much..It is indeed a fate worse than hell. thanks for appreciating :)
ReplyDeleteInferno: Yes. Very profound words.Thanks for commenting :)
Beautiful, loved the pic you chose to go along with it as well!
ReplyDeletesuper..duper .........good...........beautiful as always
ReplyDeleteBeautiful Poem!!! the last lines really touched my heart...truly depicts a character of iron willed person!!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful Poem ...The last few lines touched my heart...truly depicts the character of an Iron willed person!!
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