"LOVE" DR Jernail S Aanand

 

We love things which look beautiful 

Or things which are useful.

And when things lose beauty 

Or turn useless, 

The love evaporates.

But men and women 

When fall in love,

These benchmarks of 

Beauty and utility

Turn irrelevant.

Love like hope springs eternal 

In human heart 

And stays 

Even when cheeks lose glow 

And winds lose their blow.

Offspring is loved by the living species 

But when parents grow old, 

Or if some accident 

Breaks a child beyond repair, 

How long can love be stretched?

Animals are loved only so long 

As they give milk.

Or they have enough strength 

In their knees to pull the carts, 

Before being sold out to the slaughter house 

Love of this land has its limitations 

Even men and women who love

Sometimes find it a burden 

And rush to the courts. 

Who carries a relation reduced to a carcass?

Earth is a different type of mother 

And God a doting father 

Who call to their embrace 

Voyagers whose boats were broken 

Before they could cry "Eureka".

Dr Jernail S Aanand

India