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On the Nature of Love

The night is black and the forest has no end; a million people thread it in a million ways.

We have trysts to keep in the darkness, but where or with whom -- of that we are unaware.

But we have this faith -- that a lifetime's bliss will appear any minute, with a smile upon its lips.

Scents, touches, sounds, snatches of songs brush us, pass us, give us delightful shocks.

Then per adventure there's a flash of lightning: whomever I see that instant I fall in love with.

I call that person and cry: 'This life is blest!

For your sake such miles have I traversed!'

All those others who came close and moved off in the darkness -- I don't know if they exist or not.

~ Rabrindranath Tagore ~
From Chaitali (1896)

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