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Secrets of the Heart: Love, Longing and Resistance

Raj Babu’s poem explores the complexities of love, highlighting the unspoken longing and tension between two souls, the bittersweet embrace of love, exclusively for Different Truths.

As if she doesn’t know,
Behaves...
Her ways, a knack
To keep me Away
Though
She embedded,
As the breath of my Life...
 

She struggles to
Shut the doors
Of her mind
Pushing thoughts
Of mine
Biting her lips...
 
She knows, deep down,
In her being
How inseparable
We have become,
Yet she resists
What futility...
 
I am at the threshold of
Our meeting point,
I sit and wait,
For that dawn...
Hoping
For Sunrise...

Picture design by Anumita Roy

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Raj Babu Gandham
Raj Babu Gandham has been writing poetry since childhood. He writes in English, Telugu and Hindi. Published in 28 Anthologies, he won an award in “Rabindranath Tagore International Poetry Competition (May 2018) and was conferred Kavya Ratna award by Literati Cosmos Society (June 2018). He participated in several national and international Poetry Meets. His works are based on self-inquiry and the quest of human being to know, the very purpose of our existence.

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