Taking a break from my political rumblings I charter to a new facet….something that I haven’t been thinking of lately (HA)..blame it to my love of literature or to the bollywood songs that I hear…..that pulled me back in here somewhere

So here I was listening to some romantic music which led to a train of thoughts... as how they write and make such beautiful music which bemoan of passions, oaths of sticking together through thick and thin sustaining the flame of love which will certainly never extinguish. The music that makes your heart beat in quest for such an elusive spark that sets your body into ecstasy as you find your each cell responding to the words while the music stirs your soul washing you in its waves. When you are in throes of love the music becomes your benchmark for the desires rippling in your heart and each word is so subjectively delightful when you wear those rose-tinted glasses. You see world as black and white and not grey or the world seems so green that you can almost inhale intoxicating fragrances of blossoms everywhere...when you feel the world is your oyster and you can set everything right in it as you have the power of love as if your love bequeaths you the magic wand.. when your steps have that spring and there is a song forever in your heart and sunshine in your soul.. when you see angels in each other's visage, when you pine for each other's murmers and you linger on to each word, when each moment is like an eternity yet fleeting by, when you lose sense of space and time, when tears flood your eyes and the next moment a smile shines in them. Moonstruck are you?? Love and faith can move mountains, no terrain is untrekkable, no mountains unsurmountable, when you feel no problem is bigger than its solutions as you look into each other's eyes and you need no words to be said as you develop some sixth sense and when you feel so sure that your love is stronger, deeper and more perfect than anyone else's and that it will survive the tests of time and its tidings and continue to burn with same passionate yet sangfroid fervour and be its own replenishing source.

....and then music dies.. the song fades leaving a silence broken only by the humdrum of the process of living.. reality sinks in as love has been consummated and tasted. Monotony sets in and life becomes issues about survival, earning livelihood and worrying over matters basic.. the fetters are gone to winds and you look askance at the messages embedded still deep in each other's eyes but you prefer to look beyond each other than meet the gaze so as to stiffle the romance lest it be re-kindled, when the voice that you once ached to hear becomes rhubarb lost in the cacophony of mirthless life being led listlessly, when life sucks the music out of you and you allow yourself to flow with the turbulent current.. when you try to revoke past memories only to find them snipping at your heart taut and taunting and the demons whirl around dancing the anthem of yet another promised love meeting a wrenching end.

Sometimes I feel love is good as long as you don’t get it... the end is written the moment it gets fulfilled. Maybe if Romeo & Juliet, Sohni-Mahiwal had not died but lived happily into matrimony would they have created such a saga and inspired such folklore? Maybe they would have found themselves misfits and incompatible with each other... but it was good because it was brief and a rebellion against social censure... because it was the sweetest taboo... why are no love stories woven around married couples?? As they say marriages are made in heaven so is it on earth that we make a hell of them?? The traits that we liked and revered in our beloved during days of romance become the very bane of wedlock. That's requiem for yet another love song to be buried deep into the womb of earth. Maybe love personifies itself like the ‘All the World is A Stage’ from Shakespeare’s ‘As you Like it’ and the end my friends is something I am not acquainted with….Maybe it isn’t the requiem as I see it … Maybe age will let me see some more light….

These thoughts just started... leading don’t know where but that doesnt mean I believe in unrequited love. For me it is very essential that we get the object of our desires. Its entirely another matter whether we make hell or heaven of it but love should be gratified otherwise the separated souls find no peace.. No happiness gives them solace as they continue shedding bitter tears over graves of what could have been but is not.

So while I ponder on thoughts unanswered ….Should we fall in love?...How do we know we are in love for life or is it just a fleeting glimpse of that fantasy that we always dreamed? That I guess will be an answer we all want to know maybe I will find a crystal ball to peek in my future……