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Libretto: A Poem by Pradnya Surve

I am reading a libretto
Incessantly for years
Oblivious to what lay ahead
Irrevocable mortification and rapacious trepidation
No options given, impelled upon me
Time was timeless
Emancipation nowhere in sight
I read on incessantly
Every line and word
Until I absorbed it all
I dragged on to faint sounds
Judged, impeded, no chance to ameliorate
A libretto depicted before me
Thousand unanswered questions
How much of a concoction
How much of reality