If You Are Not In Love Poem by Anil Kumar Panda

If you are not in love
Why do you come out often
And stand at the gate?
You stare at the way I return
Draped full to hide face
Even though sometimes I get late

If you are not in love
As I appear in the bend
Why do you display a smile?
You can’t stand steady
Your body shiver as a leaf
Heart rushes up like a projectile

If you are not in love
What makes you to write
Our names together in red?
And draw faces of us
Looking at each other
Where you look a little shy and glad

The thin letters I can recognise
You do it on wall of the shrine
Why inside a heart sign you write
‘One day you will be mine’

If you are not in love