Love Understands and Therefore Waits

This is one of my first poems.

The poem itself is very ordinary.
What makes it special is the fact that it was written in a different era: an era that was, only 15 years ago, but it was so different.
For, it was an era of a different love, an era of waiting for one’s beloved for a life time, ‘for ever’ was a norm among those in love. To remain loyal to one person all life and the idea of ‘eternal love’ were things that defined how people loved.
Living today, at a time when it is the norm to ‘move on’ in life, relationships lasting only 2 years, 1 year, 6 months, even six weeks, and then people moving on within a week of break up;
a time when people in love sometimes get over each other, after which it is considered practical and pragmatic to ‘move on’, a time when waiting forever seems like foolish romanticizing, and then there are one night stands and wham-bam-thank-you-mam affairs which were unheard of and unthinkable in that era, only 15 years ago, when this poem was written.
I was sixteen, and insanely in love with a classmate; both of us were too egoistic to even talk or look at each other except when stealing glances; but I had had the luxury of one hand shake, that had lasted a few seconds longer than handshakes normally do: one day the classes ended, I moved to a new city, but believing that I would wait for him all my life… and I relived that handshake everyday for I don’t remember how many years…

You may disappear into nothing
And vanish into void
Someday and at some point
Beyond the limit of my vision
The very fact that you existed
May become an illusion

But your memories will linger
In my mind always
My hopeful eyes will
Behold your pictures always
Your deep voice will resound
In my ears always

It’s my little heart unbroken
Full of dreams and fascinations
Its only feelings unspoken
Supporting this nameless relation
But the fragrance of it
Pervades beyond the horizon
The intensity of it I am sure
Will surpass your imagination

I feel as though I have
Known you for years and years
I nurture and nourish my desires
With pains and tears

I shall still wait for you
Years after you’re gone
For the sun descends everyday
With a promise to return the next dawn