Difference Between Love and Like

Difference Between Love and Like

The day was stupendously inky

On the last day of July,

I gingerly stepped in the garden,

And my eyes feasted on the stratus sky;

Soon the squashy clouds,

Poured vitreous globules of mist,

And a wispy drizzle altruistically fell on my eye,

Ask not what an ecstasy I felt!

O how this parched Soul pined for rhapsody!

Then a beam of Light

Coruscated in front of me,

Illuminated by its grace,

My heart glowed like a midday Sun;

I then pirouetted on the damped grass,

As if mists from the river

Eddy around the banks,

Ah! Leaves swirled and kissed the trees,

And clouds frolicked drums in the sky –

Pitter-patter and thunderous beats

Chimed in cadence from the East;

Soon my face was wholly bathed,

Arms wide-opened for a celestial gate;

Together we crooned – heavenly and euphoric,

When suddenly I fathomed something historic;

There was a Rose resting alone –

Full bloom on the dewy grass;

Oh! I had palanquins of moments in words,

Perfumed words for such beauty,

I yearned to pluck it,

Yet something ceased my gentle fingers;

I dwelled too much on “Love” and “Like”

Then Socrates rang in my mind:

When ‘Alexander the Great’ had a doubt,

Socrates enlightened with a humble Heart,

That, “When you like a flower, you pluck it, really,

But when you Love a flower, you water it daily”

My thoughts all became rhetoric for the Rose,

I simply smiled when “Love” I chose.

~ Copyright © Surabhi Kaura 2015

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Surabhi Kaura

Surabhi is a Poetess by heart and an aspiring Author. She is an English teacher by profession. She is a post-grad from University of Toronto. Her love for writing poems has been her strength. She is currently working on publishing her first novel.

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