Love Poem: If I Were Your Love
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Written by: Subimal Sinha-Roy

If I Were Your Love


Inspired by Bob Dylan song : Make You Feel My Love


The sparkling dawn lights bright 
My heart’s horizon of longing in glow 
Spreads the sunburst colors of delight 
On my love’s sparkling meadow. 

In my mind’s valley of yearning  
I’ve traced a trail to reach you
The fervent clouds of my craving 
Melt in the sea of emotion I swim in blue.

I live now only to seek you
I’m sunk in the depth of loneliness
You’ll take me to the blooming valley of hue
My longing will turn to flower of finesse.

In the scorched life of deprivation
I’m desiccated like the desert lake 
Give me the soothing rains of elation 
Make me an adored oasis not fake.

When the opaque nights of despair fall 
The storm shatters your somber skies
When the stars disappear in raging squall 
You’ll see the rays of hope in my eyes.

I’ll kindle for you a candle of divine glow
Like the full moon in your sky it’ll shine   
You’ll rise from the desolate debris flow  
In the dark night I’ll be your light benign.

Your essence is my second shadow
Fused with the motif of my feeling 
How many candles I’ve lighted there aglow
You’d know if I were your love waiting.