JUST BECAUSE YOU SAY "I LOVE YOU"

Some effortless moments, and some charmingly overdone work of art,

They were all enough to conquer my heart, childish and unthoughtful.

The time I said back, “I love you”,

The smile and the tears that immersed in both of us, reflected anything but happiness, I knew.

But now, as the time has passed, every time you say, “I love you”

I doubt my own will and desire to reply back.

I do not dislike you, but why do I have this obligation to love you back?

The time flies, things change, but I do not want this to be the excuse,

But I wonder, when and how I started to love you?

And I wonder, why and what are the reasons that I stopped now?

Do tell me, am I obligated to love you, just because you love me?

Do not misguide these thoughts and my immutable desire with an affair,

The childish misology that you think I have.

I am just wondering, your love for me,

With these ashes that are burnt, and scars that are sored in my body,

Now, they have started to reflect even in my heart.

So, I ask you again:

“Is it enough for me to have a love for you, just because, you say, almost every day, I love you?”