Saturday, May 2, 2009

Just a piece of crap

This is something I wrote long back. Got it today while looking for something else...

Darkness was slowly gnawning at the evening twilight. Birds seemed to have decided to go home long before the nightfall today. An eerie silence filled the place. ''Again it's me and my lonliness,'' she thought.

Standing in the large balcony overlooking the lush green, freshly mowed lawn, she sipped her rather sweet coffee slowly. It was so long back that she had had a good conversation with anyone. It was so long since she went for a music concert. It was so long ago that she lived...

She realised the danger laid in that direction and steered her thoughts away from it and started pacing across the length of the balcony, emptying her mind of all thoughts. She heard a sudden shout from below and upon looking found her maid chasing a stray dog that was trying to soil the garden.

She was amused at them for a while and thought absentmindedly, ''what's the woman's name agian?'' It occured as a simple thought but a full 5 minutes later, she was racking her brains to remember.

She went furious, she could not remember the woman's name! damn! She spoke to the maid everyday, called her by name just an hour back and now she could not remember! She felt helpless after a while and to her horror felt the tears trickle down her face. Her silent tears became soft sobs and before long she was crying hysterically.

Tears unwept for so long, that permanent lump in the throat melting and flowing though the eyes, wetting her cheeks, flowing still down and down and down...

1 comment:

Deepa Bhasthi said...

Nice, but I wonder why I get the feeling that there is more to it than just "crap".