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Breathing Underwater

An evocative love poem by Sushmita.

It was forbidden,
To fall in love,
With you.
I belonged,
To another.
But that,
Sunday afternoon,
When,
The sun was mild,
The sheer curtains,
Blew easy,
In the breeze,
And the usually reserved you,
Spoke,
Baring your soul,
Sitting,
Adjacent to me,
I fell,
For you,
Irreparably.
That's when,
I learnt,
To breathe,
Underwater,
And live.

Picture design Anumita Roy, Different Truths

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Sushmita Gupta
She writes, paints, listens to music in various languages and genres. She parties and participates in quiz. She teaches children between ages 6 and 12, creating her unique curriculum. She enjoys teaching 100 children. She helps create happy self-image for them through art, poetry, experiments, and lots of video driven general knowledge and power point presentations.

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