Upon the Absent Beloved

I bless the hour, though it wounded me,
when first my eyes were taught to look and grieve,
and every joy I thought my heart could weave
was turned to golden thread of misery.

For Beauty came, and with her majesty
made captive all I had believed was free;
yet in that chain my soul learned how to see
the heaven hidden in captivity.

O gentle light, too distant to be mine,
you burn within me like a sacred flame;
I flee from you, yet follow all the same.

Thus love makes bitter water into wine:
I die of longing, yet I live by this—
the wound itself has taught my heart its bliss.

Author’s Note: My attempts at a poem in the style of Petrarch

Few More Sayings

“She was wearing the rose in her hair, and I was brushing off the snow from my jacket.”

“Sometimes freedom throws itself around your arms as unrequited love.”

“In friendship there is a giving without any expectation and a receiving without any obligation.”

“It is so sad that till now I have recognized instantly every friend I have met no matter how long it was since we last met.”

“One kind of bad karma, there are many kinds mind you, is when people start laughing more at you than at your jokes.”

“Gandhi is supposed to have said, ‘My life is my message.’ I, not being so profound, can only say, ‘My life is my joke’.”

“Ghar waapsi karna chahta hoon. Lekin kitna bi sonchoo ya dhoondoon pata hi nahi lag raa ghar ka pataa.”

“Hell is your underemployed and unmarried friend with access to WhatsApp.”

“Do not ruin the present by trying to make the future brighter. Light the candle now, and read in its soft glow, now, this moment, do not postpone.”

“Women contain men — wo(men) — confine them, restrict them, enclose them, imprison them, not in the tight embrace of their arms but merely parenthetically.”

“No one here on earth can understand God because we can never love one another with a love that passeth understanding.”

“When I cannot understand even her, how can I hope to understand God.”

“Those who read history carefully, will find it difficult to believe in the existence of God.”

“Jesus might as well have said love thy wife as thyself, for the wifey is one’s most immediate and present neighbour, much to the consternation of some husbands.”

Someone asked me: "What breaks a heart more, being left or being forgotten?" I answered: "Being remembered only when it's convenient!"

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📝 Plot: After the French defeat of 1870, Julia marries the wealthy Alexandre but struggles to love him. Three years later she finally confesses her true feelings, only to find his passion has long since faded. Their relationship unfolds against personal tragedies, social constraints and the quiet ache of unrequited love in a period drama based on Chekhov’s story.

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🎬 Trois années (Three Years) 1990

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