SHACKLES OF LOVE: award winner

SHACKLES OF LOVE


From my own shackles of love,
I know I can't be free.
If the roots are severed, then,
How can survive the tree?

I have loved with all my heart.
You know that it is true.
Yet having loved you so much,
This very fact I rue.

I can’t get away from you,
For that would be my death.
I’m destined to live with you
Till the very last breath.

Yet I can’t help wishing that
Your love I did not miss.
Is it too much to expect
That you give me a kiss?


• Written in abcb, 7-6-7-6 format
• Awarded Second Prize in the ‘Musical Inspirations Contest –Poetry’ , "Musical Inspirations Contest " , Round Two, Apri-May 2007, organized by Stephanie Grace using the prompt line: “I know I can't be free”.


M C Gupta
22 April 2007