"A dash is a mark of separation stronger than a comma, less formal than a colon, and more relaxed than parentheses."- William Strunk Jr. and E.B. White, The Elements of Style."
As a writer, I've always been fond of using dashes in my works. I put them in almost everything- in poems, stories, songs, and in any other random writing just like this one. In my opinion, a dash is more than just a punctuation mark that completes my sentences.
Most of the time, it can tell a story way deeper and stronger than words can do.
Depending on how one sees it, a dash can mean a long pause figuratively forced to be an unprecedented farewell, an example of a love painful enough to be considered real but too far-fetched to be chased after, a supposed cliché, a heart-changing decision, or a consequence one could never have foreseen- just like a prelude to something beautifully tragic.
In some instances, it can mean an inevitable drifting apart, an unspoken apology, an unheard I love you- or a scar of what could've been but was never chosen.
It could also mean silence-something you never deserved to get but is all that he or she left you.
But for me, a dash symbolizes you.
A love that left in mid-sentence.
A pause stronger than a comma, but never quite sure enough to be a period.
You are the oxymoron and irony of my every work- a fleeting remnant of an ending left unfinished.
A story I adored but won't continue.
You are my tacenda, darling- my beautiful goodbye.
- Aries.
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Wrong Person, Write Love.
PuisiA compilation of 100 Haiku poems and 50 proses written for the wrong person.
