Follow tomorrow, grasp on the heals of Apollo: ashiqah

There’s so many different words in urdu to describe love but the most intense is ishq. It comes from the name of a vine, Ashiqah. Many poets have used this word to depict the lose of self to an intense love. The vine is known to grow onto trees, it’ll wrap around them and start taking over everything that keeps the tree alive until finally, the tree dies. Poets usually don’t use this in the literal sense, like if you fall in love you’re gonna die. But more like, if you fall in love..if you let the vine come on to you, you’re letting something in that’s going to be with you for the rest of your life, until you die. It’ll live with you, and die with you. Doesn’t that make love sound like a burden? I guess, and I guess the honest truth is love can be something like a burden sometimes. It can take a tole on the best of us but once you’ve fallen into that intense love, ishq, it’s going to be there with you for the rest of your life, because when you’ve made these feelings and felt them so hard for so long, you can’t just let them go, you can only live with them. Just like the vine can only live with the tree.

(Source: prettyapollo)