July 2009


Once upon a time, there was an island where all the feelings lived: Happiness, Sadness,Knowledge, and all of the others including Love. One day it was announced to the feelings that the island would sink, so all repaired their boats and left.

Love wanted to persevere until the last possible moment. When the island was almost sinking, Love decided to ask for help. Richness was passing by Love in a grand boat.Love said, Richness, can you take me with you? Richness answered, No, I can’t. There is a lot of gold and silver in my boat. There is no place here for you.

Love decided to ask Vanity who was also passing by in a beautiful vessel, Vanity, please help me! I can’t help you Love. You are all wet and might damage my boat. Vanity answered.

Sadness was close by so Love asked for help, Sadness, let me go with you.” Oh….Love, I am so sad that I need to be by myself!

Happiness passed by Love too, but he was so happy that she did not even hear whenLove called her!

Suddenly, there was a voice, Come Love, I will take you. It was an elder. Love felt so blessed and overjoyed that he even forgot to ask the elder his name. When they arrived at dry land, the elder went his own way.

Love realizing how much he owed the elder and asked Knowledge, another elder, Who helped me? It was Time, Knowledge answered. Time? asked Love. But why did Timehelp me? Knowledge smiled with deep wisdom and answered, Because, only Time is capable of understanding how great Love is.

I love you more than life itself
But I’m afraid to love.
My heart is like the fragile wings
Of a tiny little dove.

I’m scared to get too close.
I feel that I can’t win.
You’ll love me for a little while
Then you’ll set me free again.

I’ve lived so long on hopes and dreams
I don’t know what to do.
I don’t think I can trust my heart,
For it belongs to you.

I know you’ll only hurt me
Yet, I still keep running back.
Between the paths of our hearts
There’s a worn and beaten track.

You’ve got my heart held on a string.
It’s breaking right in two.
Enough belongs to me -to hurt-
The rest belongs to you.

I know that somewhere in your heart
There is a place for me.
I just don’t know how to find it
And there’s no way to make you see.
I can only hope that someday
You’ll wake up and you’ll find,
That while my heart belongs to yours,
Yours, too, belongs to mine.

Chhaya Shah

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