LOVE IS NOT LOVE

LOVE IS NOT LOVE

Love is not love that ever tends ignobly to blackmail

Love is not love that is bent on, on pity’s food, to dwell!

Love is not love that is inclined to emotionally exploit to swell

Love is not love that is too greedy and voracious as a whale!

Love is not love that conspires not to ever sweat or perspire

Love is not love that knows only to swindle easily and aspire

Love is not love that pretends, to fresh and salubrious air, respire

Love is not love that’s for its mean treachery does untimely expire!

Love is not love that does always abominably stink and stench

Love is not love that is born only to pinch, torment and wrench

Love is not love that oozes tear waves to fill so profound a trench

Love is not love that fails to, a celestial ecstacy thirst, quench.

Love is not love that is merely a perennially dry, merciless river

Love is not love that is ever a mean grabber, never a noble giver.

* tends – to have an intension

* ignobly – dishonourably

* blackmail – here, to exploit emotionally for a personal gain

* bent on – inclined

* swell – here, prosper

* voracious – hungry

* conspires – plans in an immoral way

* perspire – do hard honest work/ to sweat

* swindle – cheat

* aspire - desire

* salubrious – healthy

* treachery - betrayal

* untimely expire – to end before time

* abominably – badly/hatefully

* stink  - smell badly

*stench -  give disgusting odor/smell

* torment – pain/torture

* wrench – blow

* celestial ecstacy thirst – requirement of heavenly joy

* quench – satisfy

* merciless – cruel

* mean grabber, never a noble giver – one who is always desirous of taking away something illegally, but is never interested in giving anything to anyone

©Shankar D Mishra 14.06.2017

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