Love… a feeling so strange,
Often is vehemently sworn.
It is one that cannot be trained;
It exists in all but inborn.
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It’s though not the same for all;
It’s stranger for some still.
A dream they can just recall;
A desire they can barely fulfil.
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But why are they so different?
Isn’t their ‘love’ alike?
Compelled to be indifferent,
Why do they attract dislike?
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What wrong had he done,
That society had him sacked?
He had just loved someone,
And he had loved him back.
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Though always surrounded,
He found himself alone.
A suffocation unfounded,
Made them all seem unknown.
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The revelation turned away friends
With whom he used to always roam.
He couldn’t have told his parents;
Fearing losing his family and home.
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Trying his best to ignore,
The random giggles of bystanders;
Trust… he had no more;
Startled at the slightest murmurs.
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Worse than bullies they were,
Whom he could easily recognise.
In the shadows, they created the stir.
In the light, they held a ‘guise.
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But then came the usual twilight,
And the moments they shared alone;
Somewhat seeming infinite,
In the silence, when the stars shone.
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Inhibitions became evanescent,
Fear turned its page;
They were amidst no judgement,
Love overshadowed the stage.
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Ignoring all feelings of sorrow,
Bearing with all his pain;
Believing that each tomorrow,
Will bring all those moments again.
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He just kept dragging through,
Living a day in a go;
Never did he have a clue,
That one day he wouldn’t show.
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He sat there with an incessant hope,
As the Moon crossed the sky;
His worn-out will soon couldn’t cope,
Though, he still did not cry.
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The shadows, now more prominent,
As he walked down the endless path;
The end was always imminent,
They stood against the ‘societal’ wrath.
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That feeling of eternal bliss,
That he had never felt before;
That laughter, that smile, that kiss,
He wished he had some more.
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He kept thinking all night,
How different it could’ve been;
What if they didn’t have to fight,
Or worry about being seen?
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Fearlessly introducing each other,
As they listened to them talk endlessly;
Of how they met and got together,
As they welcomed them both openly.
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It was though just a fantasy,
It was all that he could see;
More real than his reality,
Like the stars submerged in the sea.
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He gazed at them in silence,
Even though they weren’t so bright;
The Sea was devoid of tyrants,
The Shadows couldn’t touch their light.
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He leapt to reach out for it,
Doing something he thought he’d never;
Going where he felt he could fit,
To be one with the light forever.
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The dark heavenly skies,
Made the leap seem worthwhile;
As it all engulfed his eyes,
He could only see that smile.
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The thought succumbing his head,
Was that it all ended too soon;
‘Just a Little More’, his heart said,
As he looked at the fading Moon.
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When will the world change,
And not have lovers be torn?
Love… A feeling so strange,
Only the Shadows do truly adorn.
Rishabh Dubey 'Kridious' 