<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=347410" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Do You Know?</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Do you know<br>That I know<br>How it feels…<br>To not know<br>What the heart<br>Yearns for<br>And why so? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And do you know<br>That I do know<br>How you do not know<br>Why I don’t know<br>That this mind<br>In you and me<br>Keeps playing games<br>Trapping us<br>In this endless charade<br>Of not knowing<br>That the heart<br>Knows better…</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But alas! <br>The heart<br>Doesn’t know<br>How to vocalize <br>Those feelings of<br>Deep despair -<br>In longing and longing<br>For eons together<br>Without a care…</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Do you know<br>That I do not know<br>How should I tell you so<br>That it hurts very much<br>Deep down there in<br>My paining heart.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And there is this lump<br>In my throat<br>And those tears<br>I fight back<br>Almost every day<br>Because I know<br>That I shouldn’t<br>Let you know<br>Why is it that<br>I keep crying for you, <br>Forever more…</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Because I know<br>That even if I tell you so<br>You would pretend<br>Not to know -<br>And go on hurting me<br>Just as it has been so<br>For all these decades<br>And years...</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So what is the point<br>Of me ‘knowing’<br>And letting you know? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Let this be a masquerade<br>Where you and me<br>Stay as strangers<br>Knowing<br>Yet ‘not knowing’<br>What is it that<br>Pains me so much.<br>And I know that<br>Far, far away from me, <br>There where you live<br>You too are not happy.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So let’s go on bartering <br>Our happiness -<br>For propriety and posterity sake<br>Lest someone somewhere<br>Tells us one day, <br>Didn’t you know<br>That love should be<br>Shackled in chains<br>Of silent restraint? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Lest people think<br>We had gone crazy<br>So much so…<br>That we kept shrieking out in agony<br>In long poems and lengthy letters<br>And the madness engulfed us<br>Like a blazing inferno -<br>Unfettered by the dilemma<br>Of knowing ‘not to know’<br>How to run away<br>From one’s feelings…<br>And why the need be so?</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Aparna+Chatterjee">Aparna Chatterjee</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=347410" data-title="Do You Know? de Aparna Chatterjee" data-description="Do you know That I know How it feels… To not know What the heart Yearns for And why so? And do you know That I do know How you do not know Why I don’t know That this mind In you and me Keeps playing games Trapping us In this endless charade ..."></div> </div> </div>

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