You Asked Me How Much I Love You
- a Poem
- by Gauri Saju
To not fall in love with you,
Would’ve been to stop the gushing river
From taking its natural course.
I’d have drowned myself.
To not let you know that I love you,
Would’ve been to stop the raging fire
From setting alight everything it touched.
I’d have burnt myself.
To tell you that I love you,
Was to let the volcano in me erupt
And watch the molten lava of love
Find its way to you.
Both breathtakingly beautiful
And insatiable at once.
My love for you is unbridled, limitless,
And will remain the most impactful event
My body and mind would ever experience
In this lifetime and the next.
Gauri Saju
from Thiruvananthapuram, in Kerala, India, has been into creative writing since about twenty years now. The doorway to other souls is through words, is what she believes in. She finds solace in writing about the uncertainty of life and the many little things that make it worthwhile.
