That Love Is A Deadlock Poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar

‘Love is at the first sight’
Is of William Shakespeare.
‘While the one eludes
Must the other pursue.’
Is of Robert Browning.
I came, I saw, and
I fell in love with you,
And set myself to pursue
While you chose to elude,
With no end in view,
Till you yourself were to allude
That you were neither free.
Still I am crazy in pursuit
As no one can substitute you.

Love is blind
That strikes not virgins alone;
Love is insane
That strikes not maidens alone.
So is that
Of mine, that stumbled upon you
With no look
On your antecedents, and
No way less
Is it in passion and emotion
Than the one
That hits any virgin. But
It is crippled
In the web, the society has woven.

As passion grows
I cannot but love you.
As emotion thaws
You cannot but give in.
You are elusive,
Weighed with moral glare
While me, assertive,
Charged with carnal dare.

Let your fear wither
And valour gather.
To sever your life-mate,
And to end my stalemate.
Let you unlock your wedlock
To end my deadlock.
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