Poem: What Is Love?
By Dr. Archan Mehta
Love is not
Necessarily romantic love.
Rather, love is an impulse,
Which touches heaven.
Love lives among the
Clouds and hesitates
To walk in public.
Love is like a
Magician demonstrating tricks.
Thus, love suddenly pulls
A rabbit out of a hat.
Love is like a rose
Trapped among feisty thorns.
Love is like a shiny or
Bright diamond in the rough.
Love lives with apprehension
Among human beings in civil society.
Wherever there is war or
Violence or conflict in our world,
Love creates a tender, white rose.
Love reduces dictators, despots,
Violent criminals and terrorists to tears.
Love emerges, slowly, from
The shadows of darkness
To reveal light and love
Replaces ugliness with beauty.
Love soothes the open and sore
And festering wounds of a dying
Soldier on an open battlefield
Without glory. Love is
Sensitive and nurtures babies.
Love flows and transforms
Everything which love touches.
Love is like a naked angel,
Who dances on shards of glass.
Love, of course, gives
Hatred a pass.
Instead, love smiles
Like a new dawn.
Love hates being cooped up
Inside a gloomy room.
Instead, love longs to
Break free and love
Ambles along in
A rustic garden
Covered by thistles and thorns.
Love is creative
And not prescriptive.
Thus, love follows nobody’s
Rules and instead love
Creates its own rules.
Love is not fixed in
Space and time. Instead,
Love is flexible and
Flows like red wine
From a gushing waterfall,
Which embraces the divine.
Love, finally, greets you
With open arms like a
Bartender in a tavern or pub:
Love is where you are
And who you are and,
In the final analysis,
After all, love is love.
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Dr. Archan Mehta has earned a PhD. in Management. Currently, Dr. Mehta is a Freelance Writer and Consultant based in India. Over the years, Dr. Mehta’s creative work has been featured in numerous publications in India, U.K., USA, South Africa and the Middle East. In his free time, Dr. Mehta likes to stroll in the outdoors, party with close friends, listen to music and stay on top of current events. Dr. Mehta is also fond of meditation. Please feel free to reach out to Dr. Mehta at