by Ullas Marar
[box]A man is smitten by the charm that the beautiful sea exudes so much so that he proclaims that he wants to come back. But then, priorities change and the sea is left waiting. Ullas Marar pens a poem that captures the nature of this relationship and the despair of the sea.[/box]You think it’s just you and her
And you lean over and stroke her hair
You’re smiling and you don’t even know it
Her sleep-kissed eyes stay fixated on you
Too lazy to move away, content
With the nothingness in the air.
You think it’s just you and her
But what do you know?
The sea, she’s holding you in her arms
She is hanging on to your every word
She’s nibbling your ears
Seducing you with a gentle dance.
And then you whisper, almost inaudibly
“We should do this more often.”
And the waves rise and fall again
Happy to have a bit of your attention.
As you leave, you spread out your arms and say,
“I’m so coming back here.”
Except, you’re not.
The next morning, you pack up and leave
For your first love, the city.
The sea, she doesn’t know
She shows up looking her best –
Fanning the breeze, teasing with her dance
And she looks to the shore
But you’ve gone chasing the city lights.
She’ll soon know that you’re just another man
Trading half-meant promises for pleasures
She’ll wonder forever if it was something she did
And she’ll withdraw into a low tide of yet another heartbreak.
Ullas Marar is a marketing communications specialist by profession. In other words, yet another corporate sellout. While that helps pay the bills, writing in the dead of the night helps him stay sane. He writes fiction, non-fiction and poetry. As a writer, he’s like a kid in a candy shop. Everything around him is a potential story. The only challenge is to build the discipline needed to bring those stories to life and he continues to work on getting better at it.
Ullas attended the Bangalore Writers Workshop, an interactive method of bringing a group of writers together and allowing them to study the craft of writing while receiving constructive feedback on their own work. More details are available at http://bangalorewriters.com/
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