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blazeofglory
12-04-2007, 08:09 PM
Pangs of pains, envies and rivalries sweeping us

Is this love?

Of course love weakens us

Into a state of void and barrenness

For there are likelihoods of breaking
Every time fear envelops us

And the foundation we stamp on can crumble anytime

Do not pretend to idealize it,

For ideal love is in books

All we run after are obsessions and infatuations

As weak as morning dews

For we are after something, indeed after acts of the flesh

We can not transcend limits,

The sensualities of the other hook us to it

And when they slacken

The river of love dries up

We feign innocence, and purity

The sanctimony of it is at stake
Average it out, most failed,

Save a few sanctifying it

When either of the sexes is coerced to surrender

The way Sati in India is persuaded to be burned.

Marriages fail in the west and succeed in the East

The whys are least asked,

For it is tabooed to divorce and

Once you do you will be tagged a social outcaste

Another reason is of an economic one.

They make more and more pretexts of surrender

But deep-down there is a sea of hatred and contempt

For in movies you see idealized love affairs

In realities you come across thousands of cases

Wherein brides were burned alive.

The concept of a joint family structure in the east is a compulsion

Not out of love and infinite compassion

So is what we call love is, but inside full of repulsion

Though sweet and soft, contained only by revulsion

I have seen cases of affairs wherein they are deeply immersed

But as long as the physiques of the either one is sound

When the pillar of love, that is the body, is dilapidated

Every thing ends up in ruins.

I indeed deconstruct the idea of love
Idealized by Plato and by other fools
By mythologies and the rest

Average it out majorities turn sour
Though promising starting with become in a while very dour

It is all sheer impulses, all physical needs
Love is nothing that strong, only fools' creeds

The wise outlive it but the imprudent worship love
It is a sheer hysteria that will ultimately crush

dibyendra
12-05-2007, 09:41 PM
Really a good philosophical poem Blaze ! Your philosophy on love is quite deep this time. I liked the way you have shown ideal love is hard to attain in the current era and also compared marriage with the west and the east. Example of Sati perfectly fits on your poem.

I loved these lines especially :



Do not pretend to idealize it,
For ideal love is in books
All we run after are obsessions and infatuations
As weak as morning dews




We can not transcend limits,
The sensualities of the other hook us to it
And when they slacken
The river of love dries up


Following lines made me want to ponder after reading your poem :


I indeed deconstruct the idea of love
Idealized by Plato and by other fools
By mythologies and the rest

It is all sheer impulses, all physical needs
Love is nothing that strong, only fools' creeds

The wise outlive it but the imprudent worship love
It is a sheer hysteria that will ultimately crush


Keep up your good work Blaze !

Love,
Dibyendra

mazHur
12-05-2007, 10:02 PM
the pillar of love,

this metaphor wonderfully describes love's one organelle, what would you call the other?

True, love without sex is a hoax. For all practical reasons, love between man and his woman with sex is ideal. The whole world would go haywire if all started platonic or plutonic love,,,,that would be nonsense.

Congrats on so boldly discussing the ''social' value of love, sex, customs and marriages