Although we were studying in different high schools around the capital.
More often, we use to bump into each other in the same bus on our way to the college.
(actually not bump by accident because I made sure she arrived before I board my favorite morning commute)
Truth of the matter, she was the only one I waited for, in that cramped up, noisy station. And for that reason, I didn’t even care if the college’s most feared ‘The Mountain’ alike, so-called Disciplinary Incharge (DI) play Game-of-Thrones on me for my poor arrival record.
Poor him, how would he know?
It’s silly but I still remember those treasured memories like if it happened just yesterday.
Days, she looked all plain, simple of all her loud friends. Different. Gracefully shy. Polite. Didn’t talk much. Moreover, I liked how she never saw me.
Sure, she was very, very beautiful.
Sure she was, way-out-of-my-league, if you know what I mean.
But, anyway I had fallen in love with her from the distance.
Credits to her, I never missed any of my morning lectures.
Credits to her, I never realized how quickly my high-school year was nearing to the brink of an end.
Only, in that moment, I knew in my head that if I didn’t get my shit together and try to somehow say, how I genuinely feel about her, to THE real HER, surely I was going to regret it easily for the lifetime.
Amid hours and days of failed mirror auditions, finally on August the 16th, I did open my heart.
Today, it has been 12 years and 192 days since we got married.
You left early. You told me to wait for you until you return with food.
But today, the weather was too perfect to miss my flight practice ma’ma.
I didn’t look anywhere. I couldn’t wait.
My heart was full and singing. So, I jumped from our small, humble home right away.
Fear didn’t really move me, I was flying like the feeling of you.
The wind was all mine. The view from the top never this beautiful.
I was just enjoying my first independence off of the ground ma’ma, and that without you beside me.
But I could also hear my wings make loud whistles of true freedom, the freedom of me.
But they shot me with the painful bullet ma’ma.
The sound of it passed through my stomach and I fell with an unbearable agony — fell with the dread of death, fell with the thought of you. Please! forgive me ma’ma.
I have been judged a ton times that is why I won’t.
I have had my fair share of failures in the past that is why I know what it takes.
I have had my heart crushed, squeezed like rubber, thrown away like useless paper, that is why I know how to show you care.
I have given all I am to people who’d take me for granted, to those selfish ones, know-it-all ones, that’s why they already know silence is my answer.
I have faced death time and time over, that’s why I respect life.
I have watched broken families up close. That’s why my family will always come first.
I have had broken relationships myself. That’s why I don’t hesitate to bend down on my knees and truly apologize for being anarse…
Sure, I have seen so many selfish, self-centered, self-obsessed, heartless, mean and shitty people without a brain, that’s why I practice awareness.
Lastly, I know I am not perfect.
I know I do not know everything.
But, here are few things I learned from my father — You always stay humble. You don’t hurt people, never. You don’t play with anyone’s feelings, it’s a sin. You don’t say words that’d make anyone feel small, that’s ignorance. You work hard!
You light a candle of love, hope, happiness, willpower, and dream.
You only celebrate goodness! No matter what.
❤️❤️
p.s. – I almost, almost, almost lost all of the musicpervs contents.
Shocked. Sobbing out-of-breath. I couldn’t help but drink my own tears as I held her run-down, muddied broken, muted cold, 20 years young body with these hands. I remember trying my best to keep her away from the blood-stained hospital floor on that crowded evening, with hopes of a miracle, hoping that she’d still somehow wake up.
I reckon a screaming silent cry for help breaking through her beautifully folded eyes.
The eyes once alive, happy and smiling. Eyes, for as much as I remember, once full of hope, dreams, unbound love, true respect, and kindness, and empathy; now closed, dry — now teary with earth and dirt
— now shut forever.
Just like me, scared she — she must have wished her house, its walls are strong enough.
Just like me, afraid she, she must have prayed that all of it ended soon and her family is safe to see another day.
Like me, hopeful she, she must have begged for a second chance, for the first time.
Luck or misfortune, only I made it through, she didn’t.
How can I ever forget as I bid her my last good-bye off in ashes out of her own skin, and bones, and all the dreams she must have had — on that scary, weary long night.
Things haven’t been the same for me from that moment onwards. And I am certain it never will be.
But, of all, she taught me three important lessons.
How fragile life is? How beautiful love is ? And what’s the real lost?
The mob in the crematory burnt many stories that day. Many many wonderful stories.