"UBUNTU" - I am because we are...

this African word sums it up all...

Only if I had the fairy dust
Your world would change for a brief period
I'd have worked hard to get
the town & people out of your head...
as time flies by
I just feel like
Living a novel out
as it passes by...
stupid arguments & those long talks
A very good laughter over those silly jokes..
like kids we'd share
our every single dream
to make the most of this life
as if life is hanging on a light beam..
but then,as time hums
the requiem of this dream,
the careful me denies almost everything
The sharper I grow,the harder I rebel
& here dawns the big question
Am I a prey to some silly emotion?
This friendship set on fire,works as you please
the shards spark high but soothes me with a cool breeze!
inimically provoking to paint a smile
all over me
when you are rambling the mundane bonhomie

nevertheless I still imagine
we float & dance till the thought sinks in
I try to talk myself out of this love
but see...It's just not happening
so I lull myself to think of you
just for once, in a day...the way you do
but it never stops in my case
it seems I have to sing our song for you,
in the thick of this pace
Ah! then I can smell your genuine smile
breezing in my mind as though
it will dig out & spread all over 
nothing but all the buried love
& the next moment comes to make me realize
you don't care to remember our vow & verse
so how long my dear should I recite?
I decide to walk away 
from this pain & pilf....
as this loneliness in love is more home to me
than this love itself..........

Author's Note

Dear all (who've already read this),I don't know how only half of this poem got uploaded initially...I'm uploading the complete stuff..hope you all love it.

Reviews

[Onku Ghosh]

A briliant write describing the highs and lows of a relationship.......you have poured out your emotions here.You have managed to hold the readers interest right from the first to the last line, without once faltering. The title is also very apt and sweet sounding.Great !!!!

[Shweta Singh]

:-D thank you so much Onku di for such a fine review!I'm glad you read it...

[Onku Ghosh]

my pleasure!!

[tuvi]

wow..... this one is really amazing ....
highs and low highs and low ...not missing a sec to breathe kept me steady with the pulsating write up ...
Must admit you are an amazing writer and very profound with your content ....
I'm glad I read this ...I loved the intensity that you projected its hit right at vex :D

Bravo!!

Tuvi

[Shweta Singh]

Thanks Tuvi for enjoying it as much as a roller-coaster ride...your compliments have made my day :-)

[tuvi]

ur most welcome shweta ji :P

[Friday]

Very strong language and with a lot of pace (you don't give much space for resting :)). Maybe that's India, I don't know. Beautiful write!

[Shweta Singh]

Thanks Fred for devoting your precious time to read this one...yeah it runs as fast as an adrenaline rush..that's what love is supposed to do I guess..& I loved your generalization that India doesn't give much space for resting..I literally laughed after reading so coz I know why you've written so ;)

[Samuel Jack]

Very enjoyable read but I did find myself wanting for a bit of space in the text, it was like a rush of the emotions you get with love, but halfway through the poem I was exhausted. That might just be what I'm used to, the language was beautifully put together though. Keep up the good work!

[Shweta Singh]

thank you so much dear, for this great review...I'll try to write yet another piece where you not only experience the emotional rush but also charmed by it to the end,without the realization of exhaustion ;) that day I'll feel my poetry truly reached out... keep guiding me so honestly & suggesting this ways... :)

[Allen Smuckler]

Boy oh Boy....what a clever write....with such emotion and depth...
So many great lines feeding into the next...to really appreciate the images...and imagine the voice
a poem full of life and expectation...
two lovers experiencing the ups and downs of their romance never knowing for sure if it's real or meant to be...do we ever know?
Your title says it all...I am me...because of us
an honest reflection of who we are...
terrific
allen

[Shweta Singh]

you know how much it means to me when YOU write such words of encouragement...you read the soul of the poem!THANK YOU!!! :)

[Ronald J Chapman]

Very nice. You are a much better writer than me.

[Shweta Singh]

Thank for appreciating it Ronald!

[MOON]

Beautiful poignant poem so much in each reading. Ubuntu a great title.

[Shweta Singh]

Thank you Moon!your heart is beautiful to taste the nectar of common words & expressions..

[Sami Khalil]

"nevertheless I still imagine
we float & dance till the thought sinks in
I try to talk myself out of this love
but see...It's just not happening
so I lull myself to think of you
just for once, "
Wow. That is called good poetry....Thank you for sharing...:)

[Shweta Singh]

It is my pleasure Sami to share this literary plethora with wonderful & sensitive people like you...Thanks.

[Sami Khalil]

You are welcome...:).......