Love Is Not Love Poem by Dr. Ramesh Chandra Mukhopadhyaya

Love is not love when you fall in love

The love poems that are littered in every literature

Are sheer cries of the egotistic flesh

For the gratification of the self at the cost of the addressee

Hence love poems in the right sense of the term

Are seldom composed by the youth

Love is love only when it seeks the happiness of the addressee

Not to gratify the egotistic senses of the addressor

It is the grandfather who knows true love

With him all the children are dear ones

An agony of love tears his heart

He wants to embrace all of them

He wants to hug every child and every young man and woman

And plunge in an ecstasy

Ecstasy is not ecstasy when it is given a tongue

The world might be a better one

When old age writes poetry

Solidly seated on the throne of its elements