These Darned Long Distance Relationships

"I inhale the fragrance of lavender

from a candle lit at 559,

I know you'd call at 6,

and I want to feel as if you're here."

 

By itself, love is a beating heart. Never ceases, never stops. It's just we, who fill it with our own insecurities, our fragility, our loneliness.

 

We doubt ourselves hence we doubt the other, and view love as a paradigm of insecurity when all it is a temple which awaits return.

 

They say love requires oxygen, reaffirmation, rejuvenation. When the truth is that all it requires is faith. In the ebb and flow of our moods and the seasons, we mistake the passing feeling as a change of heart, and we take decisions of incompatibility and parting with such vigour, that heartbreak then  truly ensues. And where a simple conversation and a recall of old pledges is called for, it's tragedy which befalls.

 

So many lives are left to waste because they hear and believe the songs of a passing troubadour.

 

If you liked this poem, consider listening to these other poems which talk of difficult love -

• I Love You
• Love (After the Stories Are Told)
• On Breaking Up (Without Breaking)

Find other magical things, like a lovely free chapbook of poems, and other resources here.

 

Uncut Poetry has started a new Podcast called Red River Sessions (on Spotify, iTunes, Pocket Casts, etc), where we will talk to published poets, about their poetry, their craft and what haunts them. It is brought to you by Red River, which is the premier independent publisher of poetry books, and Uncut Poetry. 

 

I am Sunil Bhandari.

 

I am a poet based out of India. My book of poetry 'Of Love and Other Abandonments' was an Amazon bestseller. My second book is 'Of Journeys & Other Ways to Get Lost'. Both are available on Amazon.

Follow me on Instagram at @sunilgivesup.

Get in touch with me on uncutpoetrynow@gmail.com

 

The details of the music used in this episode are as follows -

Farm [full version] by Alexander Nakarada
Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/8206-farm-full-version
License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license