Where Love Could Reside Poem by Purnima Manhas

Where Love Could Reside

When you cuddled me around
And I squeezed into your space
Making it one large space
Where love could reside

When you looked at me
With love
In my worst fits of anger
When the sense of ‘we’
Deluded by me
And when only “I” deemed prevail
Your gentle eyes, as they caressed mine
Putting out the fire in a single contact
Made way for space
Where love could reside

When I had to forget
All your kind
When nothing but my ignorance stayed
I forgot that little common room
Where every single problem, we solved
And every dream we discovered
When I forgot that I belonged to You
And you derive your breaths from mine
When I was all set
To destroy our life
Then your little, tiny heart
As you laid over my chest
Till our beats drummed a single sound
And made a space where love could reside
Forever now.