To be the exception and not the rule!

I know how the world works

the metaphors are imaginative

and a rule is the pattern the universe follows

But really!

I want to be the exception

they bewilderingly talk about

in the movies, in the romance novels

where a man who never believed in love

falls heavily for a girl

over a smile he never cared about.

where He—whose faith is a limited edition

Bows before god

praying to have her as his forever.

where a love so magical

encounters with me on an ordinary path.

where the most casual lie

ends up being the destined truth.

You know!

I really want to be the exception

and not the standard they follow

The exception—

like fire and water co-existing

and no one has to quit.

a stone like heart collides

with a glass like one

doesn't break

but stays unshaken.

I want to be the exception,

the ordinary being the magical

the second ruling the first

the poet being written as a poem The exception!
•~Purnima