The Untouched Book

There she lies on the bookshelf, untouched.

A shade of a book that not everyone would like to read.

She's a smart book.

She knows that many people judge a book by its cover.

And she uses this and chooses to cover herself in a way, a cover that only her genre of person could decode.

Her pages at the beginning, are always boring, but not without a reason, for she wants only the patient and inquisitive reader to read on.

She tears her pages to make them appear fragile so that only the most caring and careful reader will be able to hold onto this precious object in their arms.

She knows the deepest lines in her book, and yet she chooses to give you the hardest hits at the start. She wants to see if you can bear it all, till the end of the story.

She might sometimes look dangerous and like a bad reading choice, but that's because she wants to know if you trust her enough to reveal her true pages.

She might seem like an uncompleted novel to most eyes, for they don't understand her, and she knows that only an avid reader would be able to solve the mystery she is.

After all this,

Dear Reader, If you still choose to read her, she will then take you on an adventure to a new world, a world that you could only dream of.

She will make you feel things you have never felt before.

She will make you cry out of happiness and laugh out of sadness.

Until then, she is "a treasure" yet to be discovered, still lying on the bookshelf, a beautiful story unread, waiting for a lucky reader to just walk by.

- Shruthi Rajaram

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