A Million Reasons
Nothing is more difficult than this feeling,
This feeling of helpless,
This feeling of vulnerability,
This feeling of inexplicable emotions,
And yet, we start wars to hold on to the feeling,
We burn ships if anything threatens the feeling,
We are ready to risk our lives for the feeling,
At the end of the day
This feeling of love drives us
to change, to create, to build, to live
and it also drives us
to be greedy, to destroy, to kill.
A million reasons, a single emotion.
Love for another human being,
Love for the country,
Love for a craft,
Love for the material things,
Love for power,
A million reasons.
No science behind this,
So when you ask me, “why?”
Answers are hard to come by,
My thoughts churning,
You’d never fully grasp,
The extent of my feelings,
How they whirl,
Oh how they stretch,
And spiral from with then darkest pits
of my being,
Of how they bloom and explode,
Petals of love raining all over my self,
Yet, I can only reach out one at a time,
Smile and know that each petal
had been woven out love.
So spare me this task,
for I have a million reasons of loving you,
Each one as important as the air
that I breathe.
CKF, 2022 March 11
Free verse