Sunday, September 28, 2008

The Distance

I talk to you
I hold you,
Still I wonder
How to make you feel
What I feel about you

I try harder
I fail I just watch you (in despair)
I forget my surroundings & myself
Slowly 'I' vanish I see 'you' all around

Again I try to talk to you
I try to hold you
Again I feel the distance
Again 'I' fail
And I understand

7 comments:

Madhukar Hebbar said...

I didn't understand :-)

VidyaShankar Harapanahalli said...

I don't find fault either ;-)

Madhukar Hebbar said...

forget the fault/correct.

"I didn't understand", what the "Poet Understood".. (Last line)

VidyaShankar Harapanahalli said...

"I" has dual meaning; Myself and ego...

When ego disappears or fails, you are in a better position see, feel and understand the person and relationship... Try again... poems usual don't give up hidden like a young lady... you have to be more persistent...

Madhukar Hebbar said...

still confusions..

you mean, the poet understood "Ego has to go"

Second para
"Slowly 'I' vanish I see 'you' all around"

Poet realises about ego here...

But why does he fail again after realising the ego thing?

Most important thing...

The objective of the poet looks like

"How to make you feel
What I feel about you"

You mean to say.. If my "Ego" dies, The other person can "Feel" like I "Feel".

VidyaShankar Harapanahalli said...

See, Poet feels the distance between himself and the loved one...

It may be emotional or limitation of all communication medium... When he tries harder to overcome distance, he encounter's his ego...

Then without his understanding or unconsciously he reaches a stage of bliss and oneness with this love (second stanza)

Then again he goes to first stage and he fails again... then he understands that ego has to go... thats where he feel he has understood and exclaims 'I understand'

Madhukar Hebbar said...

ok cool...

I guess I can't understand all these things :-) Never been actually.. thanks for detailed explaiantion.

"How to make you feel
What I feel about you"

Probably "How to make you know".. will show the communication failure..

these 2 lines, is not communication failure..