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LOVE?
What is this feeling welling up inside me?
Blinding me to the world outside
Deafening me to the screams I strain to hear
You tell me it is love, but pray, my dear,
If love for one being is all my heart can hold
Eclipsing the misery of my fellow souls
Obliterating all feeling of responsibility
Making me feel only what my body feels
Selfish motives, aching to touch
Longing to hold just one person in my embrace
Then it isn’t love, it is lust, bodily need
Not a selfless feeling, just one heart’s greed
I’d rather let my soul fly free,
Feel the pain of those around me
God! Help me to be more than a woman in love
A woman of more than just my own destiny!!
Swati Chandran