I stood frozen in time
Helpless. Pushed as the shore.
The sea, didn't belong to me,
Yet, I dared to touch its foam
The shells lying around lured me
I knew I was cursed.
Yet, I felt the sea through my skin
There came this moment,
I surrendered to the sea
I fell for it.
I knew it came with a price,
Little did I know the sea would suffer
Little did I want to see it in pain
For, a shore can be near the sea
But it's destiny is to love it from afar.
The moon jeered at me
Yet, the benign sun took care with its warmth.
While the sea could shed its tears in pain
The shore knew it had nothing to grieve
The sea never could be his
The sea would remain its muse
The only thing that the shore hoped was:
For the sea to wash its pain in its shore.
"Read between the lines", I heard our professor say. We were in midst of a Victorian text. I looked at her point blank. She had spoken about something which I had no clue about. "Ma'am, would you please elaborate? ", I tried framing this sentence in my mind but my introverted self overpowered my inquisitive soul like everytime. I hopelessly waited for an explanation. Ma'am started explaining about how beyond the surface meaning of any written text, there lay a wide plethora of meaning which wasn't explicitly stated. She talked about finding a void between the written words and our imagination, that void which shapes our interpretation. That explanation opened doors to my perception of reading a text. It wasn't that I had never considered about the possibilities of meanings that lay coated in words until then, but, what perhaps I lacked was to look for that void where I questioned the layers of meaning, where I put myself in those layers of wo...
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