My Rubicon

From Aryez

My Rubicon: A Poem by Aryeztur Mejorkhor

To hope without any hope,

To give without expecting anything in return...

All that is in sight is the beauty at the end,

Nothing less, nothing more (but there is nothing more anyhow).

That is what it means to journey to the Rubicon

That is what it is to care, to have a passion.

To cross it is to say:

"The Die is Cast."

It is to say:

"Once I cross I cannot turn back."

To cross it is to hold her hand.

To cross it is to tell her:

"I love you. You mean more than the world to me."

To tell her:

"I did all this for you. If there was an abyss, I made it a mountain. If there was a mountain, I made it a abyss." That is how to love.

Once I cross over, I can never return.

If I never cross, I may wait forever.

If I cross, I may fail. I may die. My heart may break.

But I may win the greatest thing on the Earth, you.

~Akhilesh Pillalamarri