Longing

a poem by Deepanjali Sinha

I need you…
Not so much to fill my emptiness
   As to help me know of my fullness,
Not so much to encircle me always
   As to let me be in the heaven of your embrace,
Not so much to hold you in weakness
   As to help me know of my strength,
Not so much to console me whenever I fail
   As to help me feel the need to succeed,
Not so much to flatter me with praise
   As to teach me to take notice of my faults,
Not so much to delve in the mysteries of self
   As to help me exercise the boundless powers of love,
Not so much to push you apart after every quarrel
   As to have the good sense to take the first step back,
I need you like a mountain needs a valley to be complete
The valley makes the mountain not less but more
Please come to me and fulfil my soul
Blessed and blissful then I shall be.