How Are Stories Shaped?

 Words crawl on empty pages 

Taking the shapes of stories. 

Stories we have seen, 

Heard, lived and experienced. 

Stories that were true, 

That we wish were true. 

Stories of what could have been 

And those that are not. 

Stories of what should be. 

Plots melt into subplots. 

Characters now have life. 

A mind of their own. 

And when they speak to you 

Often saying, we would not do this. 

And then the writer submits to the plot. 

As though the strings of fate 

In that parallel world 

Had never been in their hands. 

The characters tell their own tales now.

© Suranya



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