What Lovers Do

Published on by Harpreet Chhachhia

You speak a different language.
Your world isn’t anything like mine.
You won’t let your loved ones know me –
And for you, all this works just fine.

You don’t understand my thoughts
And you are new to love’s fights;
You keep silent when you must speak
And you sleep through sleepless nights.

Our decisions made, you forget,
And most promises lie broken, too;
Yet I keep giving love chances
Because that is what lovers do.

My heart has been through hell,
It has been fooled by sharper minds;
Still it harbours love that doesn’t alter
When it alteration finds.

So here it bows again, before a man,
Who has much against his case,
And it stands scared before life,
Because it may again lose the race.

But damn, it hopes beyond hope,
With each rising of the sun,
That it wont be left bereft
By someone called the Kind One.

7 thoughts on “What Lovers Do”

  1. The last line prompted a Google search about the meaning of a name. Then I thought about the meaning of yours. I think it is apt.

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  2. Line by line and word by word, your poetry gradually helps me understand how much sacrifice love involves. It’s scary. You’re extremely brave, Harpreet. I hope I can someday have even a fraction of the determination and commitment that you do.

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  3. That’s a very kind thing to say, Jay. Yes, it’s scary as f … the highs are spectacular though. That being said, the anxiety can be draining and debilitating.

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  4. Thank you 🙂 💕 one of these days, I’ll tell you something about your own name, just in case you didn’t know it already.

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  6. It’s as if Harpreet is giving us a list of things to watch out for, if and when anyone of his readers be in a relationship. Like “a textbook of love”. Though that is not the raison d’être of your poetry Harry, And i am super grateful for that nonetheless 🙂🙂

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  7. Love is sacrifice. And acceptance is never complete. Love is understanding that and dealing with what is left and, in turn, loving that as well.

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