LOVE

                       LOVE

Don’t categorize love as Hindu or Muslim

Don’t set limits to it

Let the banks break free

Let the river flow unaffected, innocently

Let her converge into ocean

Let her flow liberally, freely, independently

Let her express herself

Don’t let love be dominated and confined

Give wings to love

Give love its own sky

Infinite, unlimited

Give love its own ground

Enormous, wide stretching

Impart love its identity

Gracious, still more gracious

You should know

Love is not mating of two entities in bondage

This is not mutual slavery

Love is emancipation, salvation and commitment

This is not an attire of thorns

This is bouquet of flowers

Flowers that are beautiful

Praise beauty of these flowers

Propagate those values

Values are like flowers

Such a love is fragrant

Such a love is an awakening

It is a lamp, light; it is a dawn

Diffuse its light all around

So that every nook and corner

Of this earth glitters

Love is free unison

Like flowers in bloom

Like flowery lips

Like the Moon and stars of full moon- night

Like rivers flowing fast towards ocean.

A poem originally composed by Dr. Dharam Paul Kapoor and translated by myself into English with his consent.

RAJNI CHHABRA