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Monday

In another lifetime

The look in your eyes
tells me all
I know you couldn’t say
I know you wouldn’t say

But I can see the love there
and I can see the pain

Though today
I love you my way,
If only I could live again -

to match your love
to wipe the pain

Only for the look in your eyes.

(c) Alaka Yeravadekar

13 comments:

  1. Alaka --

    nice to see this poem, which I recall enjoying some time ago --

    congrats on the blog-in-prog

    cheers,
    d.i.

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  2. If only we could redo our mistakes. I like all the emotion and longing in this.

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  3. Anonymous10:57 PM

    I know that feeling. You have expressed it succinctly and well.

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  4. Thanks Linda.
    This poem is not really about mistakes. At times we might care for a person yet cannot return the love they hold for us, to the full extent. This poem is written in that context.

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  5. Glad you understand, Viv :)

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  6. We all have our own kind of loving! And it's quite sad when another's need somehow doesn't quite match what we can give! So very beautifully written!

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  7. Gemma, thanks. You've put that so well in prose.

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  8. At least the love is there even if it not quite balanced. Delightful.

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  9. Beautiful poem. There's so much emotion in it! Visiting from Carry on Tuesday :)

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  10. Beautiful poem. There's so much emotion in it!

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  11. very enjoyable piece.

    loved reading it.

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  12. A very sad beauty in this poem. I like it!

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  13. Thank you: Keith, Laura, GT, Morning, Janet!

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