I CANNOT LOVE NOW YOU LIKE I ONCE DID

Don't ask me to love you, like I loved you once,

Don't ask me beloved, not like before.

Heartbreaks can be healed,

But not again; and again.

You played with my feelings,

Time and time again.

I was the fool, you knew it too well:

I was charmingly entrapped, again and again.

You were by my side in the face of storms,

But when we saw the rainbow you ran away,

While I came for you, time and time again.

Things would have been different,

If I had been an angel,

But I told you I wasn’t one,

Time and time again.

There are other griefs in life than the aches of love,

And other pursuits than just the bliss of love.

Author's Notes/Comments: 

This poem was inspired by a famous ghazal written by Pakistan's Faiz Ahmed Faiz. Included in it are my own thoughts as well.

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