--- title: Reason to live life date: 2008-08-01T03:35:35Z modified: 2008-08-01T03:35:35Z permalink: "https://www.poetryoflife.com/reason-to-live-life/" type: post status: publish excerpt: "" wpid: 299 categories: - Love Poems featured_image: "https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/reasonto-live.jpg" author: Praveen Kumar timestamp: 2008-08-01T03:35:35Z tags: - Love Poems --- ![Reason to Live](http://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/reasonto-live.jpg) pacing up and down over and over again counting down the minutes until your arrival looking at the phone for the hundredth time my hands automatically dial your number disconnecting the line right away unable to bear the [silence](https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/post/breaking-the-silence.md) i switch the phone off to stop me from calling you barely a [minute](https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/post/5-minutes.md) had passed what if you had called? what if you had messaged? the phone is switched back on! with the [time slowly ticking](https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/post/as-time-ticks-away.md) by i think about lifting you from the office chair and like a superman flying you to this place right away patience, i tell myself with my patience is at its breaking point i catch a glimpse of your wavy black hair sending my heart on a wild spin what am i supposed to do when you say those [words](https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/post/words-to-live-by.md)? how do i react? how do you expect me to react? standing here watching you [come closer](https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/post/come-closer.md), one look into your eyes i find the reason to live life again! ——————————————- image courtesy: 123 greetings