The Reader and The Writer


I read poem after poem
Of many and many poets
Poems of all kinds;
Small but beautiful;
Long and elegant;
Ordinary ones crafted with exquisite words;
Extraordinary ones with words so modest;
Haikus and epics
Originals and translations
Some in mother tongue and some not.

I read poem after poem
And I looked at the world through them.
Poems taught me love and kindness
They taught me lust and desire,
Bitterness, anger and agony,
Remorse and pleasure and pain.
And the greatest of all lessons, I learnt through poems.
I learnt to weigh my worth as a writer.

The writer knows not what the reader finds.
The writer expresses not what the reader is convinced of.
The reader in me grows
While the writer in me watches in silence
Or is it in awe?
I read poem after poem
And as I do, the reader in me rejoices
And as I do, the writer in me slides into obscurity.

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