LOVE ACTUALLY

Love. Of making life… nurturing life… uniting…shouldering, even remembering long after it has gone- love, an emotional hopscotch drawn all over the canvas of our being. The Trojan horse in human existence, the Achilles heel of steadfast survival… the matrix behind equations of human bondage- love fuels us, keeps us alive!
Measured wrongly in the pans of give and take, abused repeatedly in selfish interests, misunderstood alas! In the clots of pain, moments of despair, love is the mistress of everyone’s heart. Sometimes we seal it with the tests of time- measure it like five year plans, tie it with threads of social bonds, rituals and inheritance. A macro-level idea forced on the ‘little hearts’, love becomes a sugar coated bitter pill- saccharine!!
It becomes a right! It becomes a demand- it degenerates into evaluations. Love rocks hard the cradle of human existence, only the intensity varies with the tides of time.
Again it is not in the scriptures nor in the sciences and literatures to be understood objectively- it is only in the abstract smells and tastes of human heart that love germinates.
Not statistically bound, not measurable, not even visible to the x-rays of civilization (!!)- this darn thing is the salt of life without which all the dishes seem bland.
If oxygen fuels the biological, physical attributes of survival, love is its universal catalyst. Building blocks of life cemented together in love- even the seeds of destruction are watered by the loves astray…
What is it… what it is that can launch a thousand ships? What is it that breathes life into the white marbles on a full moon night… what is it that defines the threads of human relations and beautifies the prowess of humankind in the facets of life? What is this love actually?
Well… love is a book of synonyms & antonyms. Alphabetically, it generates all the feels and passions but in time the screen behind the mirror tests our grammar of life :))
It generates happiness! Utmost joy… in the togetherness, the trust, the shares of little nothings of life. The suns bright in the space shared, where the rose’s red enchants the soul! Dreams bubble in the frizz of childish banter, naughty whispers and solemn promises… till death do us apart?!
Love gives us a reason, makes us look out to the unexplored, to walk that extra mile… to make someone feel special- and to feel that tinge of selfish owning, the right!
But with seasons in the sun… the winters follow autumn; the rains lash on after the warm summers bid adieu. In the twilight of love, we walk away… walk away from the castles of time, the sketches of much debated dreams… the desires of awaited futures- together.
The lashes of rain hitting the metals of construction in the rhythmic fervor… the rumbles afar like fury unleashed from the dregs of the heart… and the tears washed away in the incessant rain- seeps back into Mother Nature.
The panel of juries holding court inside the chambers of the heart battle out the Q’s &A’s and we win every time- alas! To win was never the objective! To evaluate was never the motive, to analyze-no! But love’s like that… the sinusoids sometime have phase shifts which blow the fuse of life. Huh, aint possible to get an electrician for that :))
Love’s lost… the papers of obscure tales (fairy-tales!), those letters… words remain… voice rings in the hollow of the cranium and darkness envelops the logics of existence. The pain tears into the muscles of strength and craves for the familiars.
People do move on… they discover stories of love in times another, the suns await them in distant hemispheres but love? Never dies… trickling through the arteries and veins of life it gives us strength, makes us weak, portrays the joys and sorrows together in one reel cause life is all about those ‘opposites’ written in the language of love! Deep within we know… love actually… is the greatest magic of life!
To those who have felt it… the moments remain beautiful, for even if the letters have been smudged in the tears of pain, sense of loss- love still is the favorite ring-tone in the ‘cellular’ combinations of our life!!
Like a candle in the wind… it flutters, scared, vulnerable, shivering… but aint gonna blow out- how can it, when, love is in the air… huh!