Where heart melts into words.: A GRACIOUS MISTAKE

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"I have known music to be her timeless reverberation in a forlorn corner of my soul; just when life was closing down upon me with its pangs of haunting silence."

"Hope is the point the 'world within' comes to an equilibrium with the 'world around'."

"The cold that my body feels can be comforted by pullovers of our choices. It is the winter that comes back each year, inevitably; is how we are connected on the face of time. A sweet suffering of forever..."

"My poverty, I know, was glamorous because trading you, my love, for a better life is outright heinous."

"Love was the day when she drank and I felt quenched."

"Life, ever since, had been one gripping tale. Your happening gave it a genre."

"Want is the soul's desire. Need, the mind's crave. Love, thus, I believe, is a bit of both."

"Art is how you lie to the world without ever feeling sinned."

"Sorrow is true and beyond the powers of healing, when you can taste the oceans on your lips."

I thought SHE was the blob of SILVER PAINT that I had MISTAKENLY dropped from the brush of my emotions onto the canvas of my life, to spoil a beautiful painting. I regarded her as a mistake because even after my loving her to the core, she didn't acknowledge my love. She went her way, leaving me broken.

But today when a visitor picked up that painting and commented, I realized how precious my mistake was.

The visitor said, "The moon is amazing and its sheen, serene as ever. You paint amazing moonlit nights" He said so, overlooking the beautifully drawn village and the wavy reflection of the moon on the pond.

I smiled as he took away the painting, leaving me with a wad of notes.

~Even an unrequited love, beyond the realms of your realization, is a blissful act in itself in itself.

-Sobhan Pramanik-