This poem is self translated version of my Hindi language poem titled "किनारों का निश्छल प्रेम " published in anhadkriti (Dec. 2017) Can be read through the link ==>> https://bit.ly/2Ex69ip
Only water streams of the river meets in the Ocean The banks of the river never meets with each other they always stand face to face but do not come near
If one comes near sometimes The other moves far and away To maintain the Distance It's not so, that they do not want to meet
But if they will meet The river will not stay That too will become a pond Its water will also rot Its continuous flow will stop
To maintain the existence Of the free flowing river For welfare of living beings For quenching their thirst Its very very important the banks should never meet
The truth is that they are one even if they are not able to meet What is life? Life is love What is love, it's Sacrifice Without sacrifice, love is lifeless
The banks have completely understood the essence and decided their destiny that they shall never ever meet For the welfare of the world Its essential, important and mandatory
Banks are disciplined By their own self-discipline If the river also follows discipline Inspired by the discipline of banks Its beauty gradually increases Peoples bow and pray to the river With great respect and devotion
But whenever water streams of river Encroaches the boundary of the banks they are criticized and reprimanded As it betrays the love betrays the sacrifice betrays the benevolence of the banks
by completely forgetting and tarnishing the efforts of banks And Take away with them Hundreds of homes And finally earn disrespect
Well, the existence of the edges is also because of the water stream If the edges meet with each other They will lose their own identity
So, this subtle concept needs to be Understood clearly and deeply 'Devotion persists only uptill the desires remain un-fulfilled' If one is able to see the God
and gets his desire fulfilled, then the devotee ceases to be a devotee his devotion disappears immediately and he often gets angry with God
So the Banks of river always pray to god 'Our love should remain forever But like parallel lines We should never meet each other
Because of us the river must exist Water streams must stay forever And remain as a medium for communicating our love towards each other'
Such guileless love of the banks Where else on earth can be seen? God also salutes their true love I wish their love should remain alive
It's not always like - that the shores never meet Yes, two banks of same river Do not meet with each other But a bank of a river Sometimes manages to meet with the bank of another river
Because in such case there is absolutely no fear of the water streams getting stagnant The water stream of two rivers joins with each other and is called 'confluence' Its importance increases Its respect also increases
If one bank of first river meets another bank of second river then the second bank of the first river never minds at all and never ever gets sad Its love remains constant as it was
unconditional and unbiased Moment moment every moment Second second every second Let's bow before such True and unconditional love Hundred and Thousand Times