{"id":991,"date":"2019-01-28T01:56:50","date_gmt":"2019-01-28T01:56:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/saryuparikh.gujaratisahityasarita.org\/?p=991"},"modified":"2019-01-28T01:56:50","modified_gmt":"2019-01-28T01:56:50","slug":"if-only","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/saryuparikh.gujaratisahityasarita.org\/?p=991","title":{"rendered":"If only&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If only\u2026.<\/p>\n<p>If only you loved me, you would turn around<br \/>\nto hear my roiling, complaining sound.<br \/>\nA glance, a smile, would adorn your face<br \/>\nand words you say would be knitted in love lace.<\/p>\n<p>Here I stand frigid and cold,<br \/>\nI keep my emotions in an egoistic hold.<br \/>\nI didn\u2019t call you back to gather in my arms,<br \/>\nDidn\u2019t say I love you; no clause, no qualms.<\/p>\n<p>I know too well, what you should say,<br \/>\nBut my vision sees only my own narrow way.<br \/>\nMy expectations are high and adoration low,<br \/>\nMy self-absorption just leaves me hollow.<\/p>\n<p>Who knew! The math of love where minus is plus,<br \/>\nYou give, you have more; you keep, you have less!<br \/>\n\u2014\u2014\u2014<br \/>\nSaryu Parikh 1\/24\/2019<br \/>\na poem about, one-sided thinking and self-absorption make us forget the true meaning of love.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">comments:<\/p>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: left\"><em><strong>1. Purushottam Mevada<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong> Saryu ji, Excellent feelings in poem! Regards.<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong>2. Ramesh Patel<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong>Touching expression of deep feelings.<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong>3. Mahendra Thaker<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong> liked every word of it..and in summary: <\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong>&#8221; Who knew! The math of love where minus is plus,<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong>You give, you have more; you keep, you have less! &#8220;<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong>4. Judy Regalia: This is beautiful! So well done. Thank you for sharing.<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong>5. Robin Sharpneck: Very insightful, Saryu.<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong>6. Anand Rao<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong>&#8221;The math of love where minus is plus,&#8221; Excellent formula &#8230;.<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong>7. Prafulla Bhatt. Very nice poem with good reflection. With less expectation and unconditional love, any problems can be solved. Same consciousness pervades in the universe, thinking of others is same as thinking of one self. You have mentioned the truth in a poetic way. Love, Prafulla <\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong>8. Chandrakant Desai: Hi Saryuben, Happy to read your poem on LOVE.Very appropriately you have described the essence of Love in Math of love;where minus is plus.Love is the supreme element of the Universe (Sanders Unchi Premsagai).please keep up good writing.<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong>Thanks &amp;amp; Regards. Sincerely Chandrakant Desai<\/strong><\/em><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If only\u2026. If only you loved me, you would turn around to hear my roiling, complaining sound. A glance, a smile, would adorn your face and words you say would be knitted in love lace. Here I stand frigid and cold, I keep my emotions in an egoistic hold. I didn\u2019t call you back to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-69"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/saryuparikh.gujaratisahityasarita.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/saryuparikh.gujaratisahityasarita.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/saryuparikh.gujaratisahityasarita.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/saryuparikh.gujaratisahityasarita.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/saryuparikh.gujaratisahityasarita.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/saryuparikh.gujaratisahityasarita.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/saryuparikh.gujaratisahityasarita.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/saryuparikh.gujaratisahityasarita.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/saryuparikh.gujaratisahityasarita.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}