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Friday, August 10, 2012

Her!


Her.

The word will lose meaning soon, I shall repeat it often. Her.

Her.

You know her. That one. Yeah.

Yeah, you remember that time you met her. What was that first conversation you had with her? God it was awkward! But it would turn into something so awesome so soon. You never knew!
Did you tell her? You were lucky if you did.
Or well, some of us were. The rest of us, we never told her.

Now, so many years later, we're so many years older.
Do you remember her?
Of course you do. You remember her, some days, or if you're one of the unlucky ones, you think of her everyday, that one bird you lost.
You smile when I call her that one 'bird'.

What have you become?
Are you the same man who fell in love with her? It's been so long. Do you even remember her?
Of course you do. You remember her, some days.

You have that song, you do!

Her.

And you listen to this song and you think about her.
Do you remember that time you met her? What was that first conversation you had with her?

What was the last conversation you had with her?
You remember that last conversation better than you remember the first one, don't you?

Do you remember she hurt you?
Now you do. Remember...

It's been years. It's fading, your memory of her. You don't remember her face. Like the rain, it falls and it washes away every day at a time.

Sometimes, as you plug in your earphones as you go to work/class in the morning, you think of her. As you're crossing the street, you think of her, crossing the street in the opposite direction, and you lock eyes, and you realise she misses you as much as you miss her.
But...
She's not really there, is she?

Yeah, but you don't remember her.

Plug in your earphones.
You know her. That one? Yeah...

Yeah, you remember the time you met her...







10 comments:

  1. Him.
    I repeat it everyday to forget it and then lie to myself about it. It works.
    Am so happy,time has passed, years may be. But the rain returns and so do many things.
    An awkward feeling of the first time and that beautiful feeling that am not sure of yet.
    May be,it was actually love.
    How does it matter? We have grown old.
    But I still don't get why love never placed it's next card of our little game.
    Yeah, I remember the time we met...
    I know him. That one? Yeah...
    You.

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  2. Oh... ^
    kinda hard to ignore the fact that im highly HIGHLY intrigued about your identity, which in all probability was your intention in the first place.

    so...send me an email about it and elaborate.

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  3. OOh..no..i didnt mean to create a mystery after my identity. I would have revealed it in the first place had i wanted to do so. :). Just wanted to give a "him" side of the post, and i know this may sound the dumbest explanation ever, because i guess i ended it with a 'You'.Am sorry, it isn't for you. Actually i really don't know you, except that you are a good writer and a man with a poet's heart(and i wonder why that is not enough about you) and please do work hard before publishing any of your works, coz i really think that its almost a very bad thing to waste a reader's time with some vague shit.Anyways, all the best wishes for some good work on paper, hope to see your name on some big banner sometime. And if ever we meet, will tell you who i am(shouldn't be a surprise). Oh God! this anonymous thing is amazing! cheers! :). And if this bothers you in any way, am totally sorry for it.

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  4. ^ well...
    my ego is strangely being fed and cut into pieces at the same time...
    hahaha
    hmmm...strange feeling, don't know whether i like it.

    anyway, thank you for reading!
    ...
    ...
    damn...

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    1. If suddenly
      you forget me
      do not look for me,
      for I shall already have forgotten you.

      If you think it long and mad,
      the wind of banners
      that passes through my life,
      and you decide
      to leave me at the shore
      of the heart where I have roots,
      remember
      that on that day,
      at that hour,
      I shall lift my arms
      and my roots will set off
      to seek another land.
      - Neruda

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    2. my heart...
      i-i-it's b-broken...

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  5. “Metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor. Which is to say, love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory.”
    ― Milan Kundera

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  6. never did i begin love with metaphor...

    the woman that did begin love with borrowed poetry, failed to interest an honest man...

    never did love need metaphor to begin...

    metaphor was needed when love ended and hearts wanted to be still...
    and when passion failed and faith wanted not to die

    -angad

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