“You need to be protected”
“From Who?”
“Yourself!”
“..?”
“There is no one outside that can harm you. You do it
yourself from inside.”
“Why would I harm myself? I am not suicidal!!”
“Worse. You are indifferent to your self. You don’t love
yourself.”
“I do. Everyone does.”
“Everyone, may be. But you don’t”
“So, how would you protect me? By making me love myself?”
“Even better. I would love you so much, for so long, that
you wouldn’t ever have to think of what is missing”
“But, how can you get love back from the one who can’t,
rather don’t love himself?”
“Why do I need the love back?”
“What do you mean?”
“I am not giving love, expecting it to return back to me.”
“I do not understand”
“I know”
“Then tell me...”
“I will love you so much that both of us are full to the
brim, where neither of us feel the need to give back to each other”
“And… How are you planning to do that?”
“I don’t know. Never planned it before. This occurred to me
just a flash moment ago”
“And you want to hang by it for the rest of your life?”
“Yes. And even after that. I believe in haunting.”
“I don’t think I deserve this love of yours.”
“How would that make any difference to me?”
“What do you mean?”
“I mean that your thinking doesn’t alter my feeling”
“What if, one day, you are completely done with loving me?”
“That day, nay, that moment, my existence will be an
illusion. A farce”
“Your life doesn’t exist to fill mine”
“Yes. I know that and I respect my life for that”
“Then, what are you going to do with yours once you have no
more love to give me?”
“I would then take a deep breath and that would create a
gulpful of love”
“And…”
“And I would give that to you. One gulp of love at a time”
“You will be tired”
“No. I will be alive”
“What if, I die before you?”
“Then you will die before me.”
“Yes. Then what shall happen to your love?”
“It keeps on.”
“Onto where?”
“You”
“But I am not there, no more!”
“But, I do.”
“What if, you die before me?”
“You would still be alive with my love”
“You are persistent and stubborn”
“You are lovely and irresistible”
“What if we both die together?”
“Then we shall be in love forever and ever”
“I love you”
“I know. I love you too.”
“I know that.”
“I know that you know.”
