Where Do They Go? (poem)

Where do all the unexpressed love go?⠀

Do they take rebirth in the same souls ⠀

that carried them decades ago?⠀

Does the sky absorb them and display them to the world as constellations?⠀

Do they fall at the feet of the circumstances that made them ‘unexpressed’ and beg to ⠀

give them a second chance?⠀

Does the wind carry them along with the fragrance of the dried flowers ⠀

and deliver them at a garden ⠀

created for such love?⠀

Do they mix in the ocean and come out

as tidal waves when the full moon shines?⠀

Do they reside inside secret poems, ⠀

forever encompassed in a maze⠀

of unheard words?⠀

Do they walk on the path that the saints have walked on and seek salvation ⠀

from the universe?⠀

Do they take refuge in all the ⠀

ambiguous playlists that people create ⠀

for hiding their feelings?⠀

If someone could tell me ⠀

where all the unexpressed love go, ⠀

I wouldn’t suffer long in containing it ⠀

within myself.⠀

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~Kavya Janani. U⠀