Once I fell in love, deeply, madly, and crazily!
My head told my heart, I had lost my senses!
And, I agreed, for once, with my head!
I thought the other party also had the same feelings!


But, then every time I approached,
I was bounced out of the court, like volleyball!
My head kept on sending alarms,
But my heart would not listen!

May be I was wrong! Perhaps I was a fool
to believe that others also feel as intensely as I do;
For I noticed that I was being ignored and
Avoided, mostly during all this!

Slowly, my heart realized that after all
there was some truth in what my head was saying!
It recognized that it was not a ball,
Rather, a temple of love that needs cherishing!

Perhaps I was wrong! Perhaps it was just my imagination!
For if there was love, we would have come very closer!
Whatever it was, while it may still be crazy,
My heart refuses to be a ball anymore!

©Bharathi Devi