When In Love Poem by RAJ VIKRAM

When in love don't be led
into inane notions
fed into the mind by
those who mistook
themselves to be in love.

When in love strive not
to blight the iridescence
of the identity to the tame
inelegance of cozy
but withering togetherness.

When in love don't pile up
conjectures that will
pass off as an inviting dawn
in the unknown realms
of a hallucinatory horizon.

When in love don't ever
measure relevance with
yardsticks yoked to the
adulatory sense of the self
which is false to the hilt.

When in love just be in love,
just don't wander into slippery
terrains of gaudy dreams.
In love just be with the self
enhanced enormously by love.