Just Love

The mist was settling on the lake as the sun was slowly dimming into the West, still above the temple's beak setting. The winds hushed through the well set rocks, those steep stepping ones that wound end in the still waters of the lake. In quick long leaps, she stepped down as he trailed behind, enjoying the cool warmth of the lake.

She sat down ten steps high from where waters washed the rock, knees straight, her elbows set over them themselves supporting her chin as she but her nails in a panic. He came and sat in front, his back to the lake, one leg folded onto the other stroking his old shoe's leather staring at her. The camera was unveiled and the position set in his firm palm.

She was ready to rehearse her character in the play. The first time she was set, blew out a deep breath and started. His intense gaze firmly set on her every move. She soon realized with a helpless smile and said, "Take 2." he quickly replied, "it's a play honey, and like life is a play, never will you get a take 2." she remembered it but somehow, the takes went on. Every time she tried to think of him, think of them, they had to replay. 

Take 13 it was. She missed it again. She had to say, "Stop looking at me, I feel tensed. It's embarrassing." The next, he was conscious on the camera screen and the play moved a little further. Every time she set her professional look breathing a huge puff, the stillness of the heart got disturbed as pleasure struck it. He watched calmly noticing her every little moment, being pixelated and displayed. 

The silence would have made it so pleasant that every loaf's rustle could have been recorded. Take after take, her voice was getting feeble, her act more clear, and his love deeper. "The end", she suddenly declared as he realized that it was more than two hours they started. He hadn't followed since pretty long. All he was after was her movement, every fine smile and heartily giggle.

She snatched the camera and went through each of the shoot setting up her material to practise that night. He turned to the hazy lake and sat with his knees hugged staring into the emptiness, his heart enjoying what was witnessed.

She zipped the camera and walked to his side, his long frame letting her touch his hair. "I'm perfect", she spoke confidence echoing. He looked up at her without any movement. She looked back too. His gaze wasn't intense anymore, she felt a pull of the aura. "What’s it my love?” she asked in a caring tone. 

He replied, "I was thinking that there is nothing special about you but yourself. A plain little child girl who reacts out to everything she meets. There is a beautiful girl one guy would like to check out, and a cute sweetheart inside he would like to check in and live forever. Just sitting there looking at you in the sunset for all evening wouldn't be enough, Such is my love for you And that is why I love you, how much ever you irritate me, how much ever you get naughty, that aura lives forever. It’s not about being fair, talking nicely and being romantic all the time. It's about making someone able to feel that even a moment of plainness should repeat forever. And that's what you make me feel, along with all others my butterscotch. You always ask me why I love you, don't you? This is why I love you, Because of the charm around you, Because of the never ending joyous world that you unknowingly create around yourselves. I love you. “She was smiling back.

Books

Heaped together are words in books, meaningful books,
wrapped in covers that marry my looks, my mind hooks.

Exquisite words that convey every feeling, my strains healing,
some teach love some dealing, else potato peeling.

Details too high for any expressive art, too secluded to bart`,
bulls eye is such a writer's dart, right into my heart.

Out of the dreams fantasy, a loners ecstasy,
love drama and philosophy, making my cheeks puffy.

A life inked onto the finest bark, the light of the dark,
some to forever imprint the mark, naked stark.

Lessons to be learnt in the deep, memories to keep,
they are medicines to reduce sleep, to let you weep.

Books are the treasure I found, as life's rewound,
to them am I spellbound, spellbound!!

Children

Fair as from the froth of the milk, soft as bred in the cocoons of silk,
eyes shining like the  moonless night's stars,  hands swaying to heal the gloomy scars,
a giggle too treacherous to be a treason, a smile to smile back for no reason,
the children are no doubt angels and gods, set out to be the joy's Lords.

Inquisitive are their thinking minds, to find out that which no one minds,
too smart are the words they shoot, too witty as our hearts they loot,
the nature blooms in joy as they come, the moon blushes the breezes hum,
every being knows the life in the lads, their smiles erase memory of all bads.

Sleeping half time to prepare for tomorrow, they even dream not of sorrow,
the other half building a bliss, playing in a world they would soon miss.
They imitate us in every step of life, how we eat to we respect a wife,
children are born to show the proud science, there's much more than nerves and bloodlines.

Puppies and kittens toads and cubs, those in nests and those beneath shrubs,
all are alive to show us why, there is a life that beats the eye. 

Saint

Round about a grave six foot long, a congregation gathered as the sun glided into the mountains. The pleasure nature bore seemed monotonous and the gathering murmured. Alone he stood a little far away, looking deep into the flame and bouncing pebbles on the river. He was missing something, a clear emptiness he felt. It was his father.

He looked back and thought of his father's last wish, that he be burnt and his ashes buried. Yes, his father believed in religion, not one but many. Today he was learning what he meant. He was always teaching to bring the right out of everything. "Be generous like Jesus, cunning like Krishna, let your ordeal be Islamic strict and your idol be virtuous as Rama. " the thoughts stretched and he continued to end the funeral. The gravestone read "a man of numerous beliefs, today his soul relieves, gallant was his logical god, to him magic was a fraud. He rests in peace as the world runs crushed."

The voices dispersed into the dark trees, the coal flamed red and the stars lit the day bright. The crescent moon beamed smiling lighting up the lands. A single oil lamp flickered half way over the hill in the home of the dead. The man let a silent tear that wet the pebble that washed away in the waters.

A man died that day. As Gita would put it, a soul left the body. But none but time knew the ideal is to survive. A few days later came a religion, 'humanism'.

A black day

Pre script: black day is a day, which would repeat every 6 months, the third Mondays of September and March, when the panels all over the world would be launched high above the clouds. The panels, solar indeed, would shadow out the entire earth from dawn to dusk as they charge themselves to run the earth for the next session.

It was the black day. Ismav woke up early as the alarm struck 4 in the afternoon. The day was still pitch black. The weather was cold, perhaps around 330 Kelvin he guessed trying to feel it, for the record shall be nowhere. He was old now, forty years of age weighed onto the sensor initiated crèches. He walked through the corridors and into the balcony, not a pinch of light anywhere to be seen. The metal rumbled along the carbide floor, for the sensors were hibernating, thanks to the black day. He saw into the sky, that emptiness, clouded as it was, by the cluster of solar panels, as it seemed for nothing could be seen.

Black day became a convention every six months, that day when you could do nothing but sleep or cook on fire. His family went out into the local barren garden to cook the human meat, made out of the yeast from belly button. Ismav counted in spending over wax lights and coffee. He burned the wax in its pot, poured coffee from the retention flask, brewed a day ago, and finally sat at his chair. He was waiting for the one news, pondering over how he cast the vote by the new system, the pain his finger suffered as the acid drilled his nail, feeling it over with his other fingers.

The result was finally declared from the citadel in the old mike that hung since a thousand years, over the Nu Red Fort in the city of Nu Dale. "Over a century, we have witnessed the corruption of I Am Admi party, and today, as our new leader Veeraj Gandhi said, 'The nation, in the black hour, when the entire world stales in the dark, our nation rises to freedom and peace.' Indeen National Congers thrones back" a fanatic declared.

Ismav's heart stuttered breathless as he coughed the coriander smoke in astonishment. The country now showed that they believe in Congers over I Am Admi party. Once in history, when the Indeen national Congers were corrupt to the neck and I Am Admi, formerly AAP, rose to power with the slogan "India against corruption." In an open-eyed daydream, he glimpsed over how it fell, how the hierarchy corrupted its roots, and how it split, the righteous members branching out and merging back and how the 'solar space scam' ruined it. He munched the cane slices dipped in coffee with his crumbling teeth and returned back to the bed. He packed himself back in a blanket, clasped his hands onto his chest and wore off his eye cottons. That night he slept tumbling over the foam.

A scotch older than him trickled along his eyes as his corpse was carried away, placed in a bacterial cup to the far off cemetery, when the procession of the Congers' passed by. It had to look like the tear, for fate had destined so. The flesh was eaten up by the yeast-feed and the bones were charred into obese sugar. All left was a soul free, dwelling by the red cloud, to rise above the world of plastered smiles and clustered panels.