The night was usual but she wanted to open her heart to someone. They were talking about the real things in an unreal world – having discussions about infinity and beyond, of cyclic phenomenon. She asked him for something and there it began - the the story so powerful, a story beyond words. He said, “I don’t know about such things, my lady” and then he dragged her down to a place she could never leave. It was his heart where he kept her, where she felt safe. The seconds slipped into minutes, minutes into hours – the time for them had stopped. They were two hypocrites sharing continuous hypocrisy. Their convoluted ideas and thoughts made their lives daedalian but nonetheless, more beautiful than ever. She said, "I wish I were with you". He said, "I wish you were with me". He became her art, she became his poetry. They were ideas that blossomed into pristine. Yes, it was pristine what they had. They didn’t know what it was, but only knew, it was. They drove each other crazy, literal crazy. Both felt a reaction with their hormones. He was chemistry she was biology and that night biochemistry was born!
I am in no state to write fancy words. The first truth is that I do not have the vocabulary to sew words into some captivating, mind-charming strings. It's been 7 days since I returned back home under these dire circumstances. The situation still does not seem to improve even a bit. Days have become so contrasting, varying and fluctuating, that too on the stress scale. Happiness and smiles come rarely (fortunately they come), and last only momentarily. Maybe they come during some comedy scene in a movie or during a one-liner joke in a stand-up comedy, but not necessarily every time. Each passing day makes it more difficult to laugh, to stay positive. The early part of the week, we all were still trying to push ourselves hard to stay positive, even when papa stopped going to his office. I could never have imagined him not going to his business for these many days. Even when we had to go for vacations, be it for a day or two, it used to be so difficult for him to take an off. Now, ...
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