As long as we keep each other alive <br />In place in space in furrows in soul, <br />No wind or shock wears us from other; <br />As long as we lend concern and tend, <br />We feed each other with devout love. <br /> <br />No time can rob, nor distance steal <br />The bond of love built of devotion, <br />No ego bubbles, or doubts build up <br />In the ocean of love ingesting two, <br />That nourishes both in give and take. <br /> <br />Is love a cage, or freedom of self? <br />Yielding to other is essence of love; <br />Who knows the truth better than you? <br />Flying in free sky as a bird does, <br />You yielded to me in blood and spirit. <br /> <br />Love is binding soul to a chosen soul, <br />Love is purging liberty on own freewill, <br />Love is yielding self to the other’s will, <br />Love is finding self in the other’s need – <br />What devotedly you followed in loving me. <br /> <br />Ages now we met, and dissolved in love, <br />Nations perished, cultures rose since then, <br />But the well of love you draw for me from, <br />And drench me in is inexhaustible ever, <br />And in gratitude, I worship you from soul. <br /> <br />Selflessness is spark that lights your soul, <br />That brings love dimensions unfathomed; <br />The glow you bear does catch me within, <br />And expand horizons my vision can catch, <br />And I transcend myself by the devout love.<br /><br />Praveen Kumar in Celestial Glow<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/devout-love/
