Lovers Quarrel Poem by Arti Chopra

years of togetherness,
unflinching support,
happy in your happiness,
tears in your sorrow,
is this your love,
so careless in your speech, the
enormity of your words,
the lack of sensivity,
overtaken by a senselss rage,
your words have the power,
to maim and destroy,
the calm and tolerance
I have built up over the years,
till the wounds have healed
yet one more time
I pray for strength,
i pray for your forgivenss by HIm,
I pray for a miracle,
yet I realise it s I who has to change,
for you areuncaring unfeeling
you spoke and forgot,
but the blade of your toungue,
pierced the core of my heart,
and left me shattered,

ihave to make mey own karma,
I must travel my own path,

perhaps you have been sent here to teach me patience,

for each one of us is here to learn something
my heartbeats slow down,
my pain eases
I brace myself and get ready to act as if all was well,

i continue to learn my lesson and learn it well