Parting

May 5

Losing someone or something
to find someone or something else,
was never my choice,
but I learned it the hard way,
when I followed you
just to be with you,
when I stopped
just to see you moving ahead
whenever your steps wavered,
when I fell too,
just to keep you from falling...

I wanted to hear something from you
just to tell you something,
I wanted to sleep and wake up too,
just to catch a glimpse of you,
in a dream or face-to-face,
I had love in my heart,
but also wanted to fight for your love,
I wanted to lose just to win you...

But in the tug-of-war
between the unknown and the known,
still I can't understand
whether it was love or something else,
when two different paths
became more vivid,
as I went my way, and you, yours...