Love is What Not
- a Poem
- by Debanjana Majumdar
Love is what not, except for
what it takes not – fight life,
bring light to your tainted more
nights, with Hippogriff’s blessings and time.
Do not ask me for freedom
for I might forget to grant
your needs and invade your kingdom.
Forget not! Take what you want
without taking away my power to
love. Women lose in this game –
Men and condescension take upper view
and female love becomes a compulsion.
Let us love without any claim –
Striking off freedom will lead to convulsion.
Debanjana Majumdar
from Durgapur, in West Bengal, India, a small city girl with big dreams, is a music lover and Victorian-era dreamer, who loves to write poems about love, pain and loneliness. With a master's in English, she is currently working as an editor with Sportskeeda, aspiring to publish a poetry collection someday.
