My Love and Time

If there is a big ledger of time,

my love for her would be recorded there.

I will stand among a few,

who loved truly without expectation.

I loved her for her love,

just because she didn't return mine.

I cannot change myself by unloving her,

my love remains fresh even today.

I will not call it a 'relationship'

ecause labels often blind the heart

and give a false sense of security.

Sometimes, out of loneliness people enter romance,

and slowly love starts to die.

There is no limit to my love,

it does not change its shape for another.

it does not need her presence to survive,

it also lives strongly in her absence.

I loved her and I trusted her freedom,

so, I will continue to do the same.

I can stay alone and still love her,

like an island surrounded by an ocean of her thoughts.

I am not dependent on her form,

or on being together with her.

But I remain connected to her soul,

as long as my love is allowed to exist.

By

Sanji-Paul Arvind

**Do not judge my life based on my poems; My Poems and my life are 2 different things.