In the second innings of life,
Putting your heart out again
Can be such a task.
Tempers rule the game,
The ego says, ‘he or she didn’t ask?’
Uncertainity and anxiety never leave our side.
It is so difficult to trust and confide.
What if he is a conniving guy?
Would he break my heart and fly?
What if it is not me he desires?
What if he is a consumate liar?
Doubts and thoughts that buzz around.
The man too is scared of puting every thing at stake.
For he is not sure if he can handle yet another heartbreak.
Brittle hearts rattle, love is caged in doubts and worries,
Which is compunded if someone is ardent and in a hurry.
For if a small seed sprouts in the heart’s garden of ice and snow,
Weed or not, how would one know?
We want love but we deny ourselves coz of the fear.
No one is able to thaw the ice, no one ventures near.
Alone in the gilded cage we watch stories of love from afar.
And we keep wishing on a star,
But when the wish is answered someday
and some one comes into our life,
We doubt and drive the person away.
May be someday we will get someone who will push their way firmly into our hearts
And will not take no for an answer.
And a true love story will start.
-Shailaza Singh
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