An Invitation To Opposition

I want you to refuse me

Defy me

In the most obnoxious ways

I want you to prove me wrong

When I tell you

In the most fashionable stoic manner

Life is a river

And we can’t stay at one place forever

I want you to disagree with me

Vehemently

In most detestable ways

If I try convincing you that

You and I are not meant to be together

And that there is a better future for you

Somewhere

Elsewhere

Away from my arms

I don’t want you to give up on me

I don’t want you to get seduced

Even if I play out magic

Through my words upon you

To persuade you

To convince you

Don’t agree with what I tell you

Sometimes in my obsessive search for the plot

I lose faith in our story

Don’t let me lose that faith

Stories don’t perish ever

Only plots vanish with the passage of time

Time is the worst storyteller

It follows no plot

So don’t believe me

When I tell you

We ought to let go of each other

Because my love

We aren’t murderers

We save lives with the weapons of our tongue

Let’s not turn our weapons upon us

Let’s not die before our story is over

Let’s leave these annoyingly perplexing plots

And meet in the middle of one simple story

Like two strangers who meet each other

At the end of an old staircase

And fall in love with each other forever