wide open sky
daunted by the master sun,
bright yellow;
forgotten are the old rains,
the clouds do no longer cry…
forgotten
Light and Dark
The thoughts of light had come to haunt her once again, when she was safely cocooned in her darkness.
“Why? Why do they come back?” she cried but there was nothing she could do. She had to face them because they were as real to her as her darkness.
She had left any hope for a bright future and was finally accepting her light-less fate. After falling down again and again, she had accepted her defeat against her demons who were now ruling her from within.
“Let me be alone. Let me be.”
The white glimpses of the happiness, the word she had forgotten, wouldn’t stop tormenting her. They were there to kill the very essence of her soul.
“Please go away. Please, I beg you,” she whimpered, suffocating in the brightness of those thoughts.
They were the instruments of her demons only to end whatever was left of her.
.
*Written in response to VisDare Writing Prompt.
Homemaker
He was about to go out when she interrupted, “Best of Luck for the meeting. Come, I will get for you a bowl of curd and sugar for good luck.”
“Don’t you know I don’t like to be called while going out,” he sneered.
“I am just asking you to do so for your own success,” she reasoned.
“Please don’t think about me and do your own work,” he angrily replied, “I haven’t married you so that you could become a hassle for me.”
“I am just trying to keep you happy,” she said in a teary voice.
“If you want to keep me happy, just do what you are asked to do.”
“And don’t cry in front of me.”
“A burden… yes, that is what she is,” he mumbled to himself, leaving for the office, without giving a single glance to his weeping wife.
“Why?”
“Why can’t he love me?”
“Why can’t he just accept me?”
“I was not married off to live a life like this.”
She cried and asked the open air, these questions and then cried even more.
Wiping away her tears after a few minutes, “I must not let these thoughts come to my mind,” she told herself.
“These are demonic thoughts.”
“I must respect my husband. He is everything I have got.”
“I should try harder to please him and continue to do so even if he doesn’t pay any attention towards me.”
“I am a wife and I must fulfill my duty as the homemaker.”
She had all but forgotten the ill-treatment she was subjected to by her own husband and went off to the kitchen to prepare the meal for the day.
that feeling
you know that feeling
when out of nowhere,
a thought comes across your mind
and you want to jot it down,
.
not because it is an important thought
but because something within you is urging you
to bring out the flicker of that light
that passed by the contours of your mind,
.
scribble it on a piece of paper
with a blue ink or black or even red,
keep on writing till the time
you have completely puked it out,
.
then store it inside a table drawer
already flooding with many such others,
place it carefully at the top
to be read some time in the future,
.
when you have almost forgotten about it,
one day you find it lying there lifeless, still
and read it in the light of the day
and simply smile at that cold thing from the past.
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