The Rainbow in My Heart - an ode to unrequited love

The other day I was talking to a close friend of mine about broken relationships and broken hearts. I heard some very romantically heart-wrenching real life incidents during that conversation. Things about people moving on and never looking back at the devastation they caused. Stories of people living in the present clinging on to the memories of their past. Of people who are never able to move on. Of people who move on in the blink of an eyelid. Of relations that were meant to materialize and didn't -causing immense suffering to all involved. Of relations that weren't meant to materialize and did - again causing immense suffering to all involved.

I am not unromantic myself. I feel too deeply. I care too much. Though I reasoned out with my friend using cold logic and said that I do not advocate people wasting their entire lives for the sake of unrequited love...in my heart I can understand how it feels to be discarded, rejected and left behind...to be made a partner for some vividly colored warm days and then, to be left alone forever...to face the cold, grey days of loneliness. 

I haven't tasted it yet,but I know its bitter. I haven't touched such loneliness, yet I know it is cold. I haven't seen such devastation with my own eyes, but I know it's shade is a morbid, dirty grey.

Here's a poem. Dedicated to all those who have loved from the depth of their beings, from their core, from the deepest reaches of their heart...to those who know that irrespective of whether lovers meet or not...life and time aren't powerful enough to wipe all the remembrances away. Once touched by the rainbow hues of romantic love, a part of your soul will forever be vividly colored...no matter how grey the cold days of loneliness. A part of your being, somewhere deep inside, will be a tiny rainbow, as long as you live.

(pssst....this is the first non rhyming poem I have composed. I didn't have much regard for non rhyming poems till late. But I am opening up now!)

The Rainbow in My Heart

I

I still remember

Those days of old

When you and I

Walked hand in hand

Along sea shores

Collecting shells

Milky white and Chocolate brown

And oyster shells

No pearls inside

All cream and beige

And then we found 

One rainbow hued

Those days of old

When you and I

Walked hand in hand

Through green fields

Collecting flowers

Red and white

Purple, blue

Yellow and pink

With pollen dust

and fragrant dew

And then we found

One rainbow hued

When the days were young

And so were we

And hand in hand

We walked along

Through winding lanes

Treading gently

On fallen leaves

"rustle" "rustle"

Yellow, Orange

Autumnal shades

And then we found 

One rainbow hued

Borne along

In the cool breeze

Of virgin nights

You and I

Walked along

Hand in hand

Counting stars,

Little lamps

On ink blue sky

And those that fell

On Earth's breast

And then we found

One rainbow hued

On lazy, cozy winter noons

Wrapped in fluffy

Cashmere wool

You and I 

Walked along

Hand in hand

Watching birds

And counting them

Robins and sparrows

Parrots and koels

Flamingos too

And then we found 

One rainbow hued

On evenings drenched 

In the silver light

Of a full moon bright

You and I 

Walked along

Hand in hand

Picking pebbles

On railway tracks

Black ,white, grey

Shiny, round

And cool and smooth

And then we found

One rainbow hued

I can still feel

The first rainfall

That drenched us both

You and me

Our hands entwined

Loving the sight

Of raindrops weaving

Myriad patterns

On spider webs

Countless drops

Diamond flecks

And then we found 

One rainbow hued

In the warm circle

Of your arms

I first felt

Whatever it feels

When heart and mind

Lose partnership

When across distances

Meet two pairs 

Of restless eyes

That moment divine

Coloured my life

With vivid tints

All rainbow hued

II

Nothing lasts

Forever, I know

The brightest rainbows

Fade with time

And leave behind

Moments covered

With layers of dust 

The dust of time

Can't wipe this dust

It gets in the eyes

And tears fall

Salty droplets

Just a few

And amongst them one

Is rainbow hued

The shells collected

From the sands of time

The flowers - Red, White

Yellow, Blue

Fallen leaves and broken stars

And birds that have now flown away

The pebbles remain 

With me, still

But the raindrops 

On the spider's web?

I cannot find!

My arms outstretched

And your's withdrawn

I am a stranger now

To those restless eyes

But I am coloured

From head to toe

Violet, Indigo

Blue and Green

Yellow, Orange

And passionate Red

All rainbow colours

I stole from you

Oh! Owner of

My heart and soul

Just tell me once

You need not speak

A nod will do

Is a part of you

Still rainbow hued?

- Pallavi, 24th June 2012, Pune

Do you have such a personal rainbow somewhere in your heart too? Do you know someone who has?

No matter what the nature of your love story is, I hope you rate forgiveness and kindness towards the object of your affection, the highest on the list of virtues. Love that doesn't mold us into superior, better, more forgiving, kinder persons; cannot be love in its truest form. 

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