When it comes to Love!

 

One way is to be in so much of love

That you surrender

To every thrashing of the wave

Every caress and kiss.

Every frustrated release.

Every rebuke, each deed. 

Another is of self love.

To stand strong against 

Anything wrong.

To give as much respect to even self

As you expect

From the rest of the world.

To heal and care for self first.

And then extend it to any other.

But who is other

When it comes to Love!

Don't we give a piece extra

To the one we love?

And isn't love the major binding force,

The core raw material

The cosmic cure?

But equally important 

Is Respect!

Respect of the 'sense of self'

By self and beloved!

Yet, who needs that?

Ego? Self? Life itself?

And one can't ever be sure -

If the intimacy of an entire ocean

Be reciprocated the same way

By an earthy shore!

One may be overly giving,

One can be simply absorbing!

One can be in need to be held!

One can be rightly strong to keep the beloved intact! 

Different ways of expressions - 

May or may not receive 

The same reciprocation!

Then what's the right way?

To surrender or the high way?

What's the right way?

To accept or bring a change?

And is there really any right way?

For that's the nature of waves.

To keep coming to the shore,

Yet running away!

And that's the nature of the shore 

To keep waiting - 

For every embrace!

To keep thirsting for more! 

And there is no way for both 

To but be together - as a whole!

Expanding and contracting.

Dancing in a duet -

Now fighting, now kissing!

~ Surbhi Rohera