There will be a girl…
By: Bhim Pandya (September 28, 2021)
From the mountain
On its slope
The streams of renew
Trickle down
Caught in the eyes
And drop into the ocean
Wading and splashing
And floating in bliss
Holding her hand
Baby steps
Toddling against the wave
Like one goes through life
A moment in infinity
Finite but as vast as the universe
There will be a girl
I will love as much or more than you
I will tell her I love her
Just the way I tell you
She will have your charm
Your beauty
Heck she will look like you
Us
There will be monsoons
And we will get drenched
Earth will be cooled
The smell of moss
Engulfing the air
A flower will bloom
She will be our daughter
A splash of happiness
In our arms first time
Little, tiny, a moment infinite
Then Streams of joy overflowing the eyes
Will Trickle down
We will watch her crawl
Walk, run
We will always be there for her
Our love personified
Smelling like jasmine and lavenders
And look like orchids
This poem is not a product of some inspiraton or a muse. I normally do not write much about love between two people in context to relationships but this poem just swam to me in my dream on a boat with a number plate with a single number 'five' in roman numerals with its main mast made out of a paint brush. I suddenly woke up and wrote it. Odd how writers get ideas eh?
Love is a word and the feelings of love are inanimate residing on the mental plane. Perhaps, the feelings associated with love are the unmanifest drivers of connection. In a relationship, love takes place between two mutually exclusive entities who come together through attraction and a sincere desire to upkeep the relationship through actions and expression of affection, compromise, understanding and feeling a sense of safety with one another.
This notion of love is complex and it is beyond the four words that come together to spell it. However, language is a necessity which brings us together, and we say this in many ways "I love you", "heart emojis", 416 (whoops that's an area code LOL, I meant 143) because after all communication is a key ingredient to any relationship.
Having said that, love is still between two mutually exclusive human entities. Now taking this conversation to the cosmic plane; as understood by various philosophical/ religious doctrines love is between two spirits especially when we think about how and why two people suddenly meet and fall in love. In fact one can say that the universe plays its dice and places the entities on same board when the time is right.
Let us come back to the wordly or worldly plane, and return to the unmanifest nature of love. I say that the notion of love is vast and unfathomable and there is only so much individuals can do to show it and express it. This poem tries to also convey that the unmanifest nature of love becomes personified when people have children (having children either through adoption or the organic process). At this point the two people in love are given greater purpose and opportunity to continue expressing their love by showering their offspring with that love/nurture etc. Furthermore this grants individuals in love to express this love for the world, because they will pass on their love to the offspring they have through values, ethics and goodwill.