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THOUGHTS
OF THE POET
Both
of us know
What
you are doing…
This formed a crucial part of the first
stanza. Having a crush on someone mostly
involves being physically attracted to them. Your mind gets detracted to the
way they look, the different features of their face when they laugh, smile, and
(at least, initially) their tensed look hovering over your priorities and not
allowing you to concentrate as long as you have not found out the reason of
their tension. Their slightest torment becomes a major earthquake for your
state of equilibrium. Noticing all this just from a corner of an eye is
something we ace pretty soon.
On the other hand, the crush also notices. It
is baseless to expect them not to know what
you are doing. That’s how the basic discovery begins.
The further stanzas, very conspicuously,
state the various stages of crush and then multiple stages of physical and
mental attraction leading to falling in love. It has been observed in most of
the cases that if a male falls in love first, he tries all the tricks and all
the possible “settings” (as the youth call) to make the other person feel the
same way for him. When he receives a hint or a nod from the other side he
proposes and the relationships begin. The whole process is a lot more complicated
for mere words to decipher. However, the process becomes a lot more complicated
if it is the girl who falls in love first. The girl falling in love involves a
battle with the self, which is far more complicated than it is for a boy (or so
is the popular word). Post that comes stages where the girl avoids and deletes
her desires. But the emotions come back nagging each time and her actions show
it. However, a girl rarely proposes. As sexist as this remark might sound, it
is a well known fact. Quite often this is because girls are, usually, far more
shy than boys.
Then there come a category of boys who, in
high school, are the dartboard of humiliations, and with age become the soft
bed to curl on. The girls who could kill to get a boyfriend on a football team
when they were fifteen, often grow up to fall for boys who are more
straightforward in life, who don’t try
to look cool. The trouble, however, with the straightforward career oriented
guys is that they are
straightforward.
Like the last line depicts, however, the
submissive-to-work boys also have a heart. It’s key just needs to be found. (Hey! Did I just give a hint on a future
poem?)
INSPIRATION
Well, I won’t divulge much personal details
here for the fact that I don’t want people to focus on the poem as a pin on my
emotional map but as something they could point on their own emotional map. It
so happens, and was brought to my attention by a classmate of mine, that there
are two separate instances in my life when this has happened to me. Once when I
was in my senior secondary class and another, last year, when I was preparing
for university entrance exams.
I was inspired to write this piece by the
latter. But I see so much parallelism in both the situations when the girl
tried to drop hints about her love for me
that I just feel that this is far more universal topic than I initially gave it
credit for. I wrote the poem early in March 2015. There is no denying, this
poem has gone out more internationally than I thought it would. My last poem TO
DRAUPADI, being a more Indian poem than any I have ever written got most of the
views and acclaims from my Indian friends. When I look into the stats of that
poem, I find that the demography is mostly Indian and partially American. But
this poem has been viewed in India, US, UK, New Zealand, Bulgaria, Kenya, Saudi
Arabia, Singapore, UAE and a lot more countries surely indicating the
popularity of this topic. One of my friends, who was rarely impressed by any of
my previous works was actually so enticed that he couldn’t stop himself from
praising the work. I’m glad it happened and I promise to keep working to your
taste more.
EARLIER VERSION
AND EDITING.
Well this poem has gone on for far more
scrutiny than any of my past poems. It is a lyrical piece, a genre usually
considered to be the toughest to write, and there are very many rules that you
need to keep in mind while writing a Lyric.
Following are a few examples.
1.
You
try your best to sit close to me
Talk
to me find what I share with you
↓
You drop hints about your love for me.
Come close, egg me into proposing you
2.
‘Cause
I don’t, just don’t love you
↓
‘Cause it’s clear
that I don’t love you.
3.
I
might try to test your love for me
↓
I might try to test the water
Thank you so much for being a part of my
journey to the completion of my first internationally viewed poem published on
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