I Defer My Love Affair Poem by Akhtar Jawad

I listened to a voice telling me,
"I love you too."
What a surprise!
I never told that I love you.
But I have a brain that thinks and concludes.
This is my world with a hyperbola of time.
Perhaps, millions of years ago,
a four-footed ancestor
had whispered in your love,
"I love you."
Perhaps you responded at once,
But your response was received in my world,
a world that is ruled by the cruel time,
the sweetest response of the words,
"I love you, too.",
arrived here in my world,
a slave of the time,
when lungs of my ancestor stopped breathing,
when his eye lids stopped twinkling,
when his tongue stopped speaking,
when his ears stopped listening,
and,
when his heart stopped beating.
When his rotten flush was decomposed,
and when his bones became a part of the soil.
It was strange and shocking,
I am deferring my love affair with you.
I shall tell you face to face,
whenever we meet,
The sweetest of all the words,
"My unseen Sweetheart, now I see you,
and I swear,
I love you."