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To the One and Only

by P.R. Viswanathan

When you are truly and deeply in love with someone, and have lived together for years, a sublime unity is what you experience. P.R. Viswanathan captures that experience through his verse.

Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day,
As good old Shakespeare did famously say?
Or to a rose or a star or the sun and moon
As besotted lovers of all ages croon.

There was a time when these similes appealed;
Before ardour of unseeing youth gently cooled.
These words but bespeak one outside of me
While the years have welded us into a unity.

No difference is so big to make us distraught.
So often you voice my innermost thought
Each seems, so much of the other, a part
And is in sublime communion, heart with heart

When you are part of me – in everything
In the air I breathe, the water I drink
My catalyst in creation; my writing
What need of words, what use for words?

If this is a marriage made in high heaven,
It is best left to God to name His creation.

P.R.Viswanathan is a born and bred Mumbaikar, a career banker and now a consultant in microfinance. After retiring and setting up as a consultant working from home, he has indulged his passion – writing. The subjects that interest him are parochial politics, microfinance, terrorism and deficit financing and above all India.
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