Underneath the Red Sky

It was a lonely evening by the side of a shore, I was trying to breath life into the melancholy, hoping and clinching the light creeping in form the tiniest of corners... It was me, trying to live again, but failing to find a reason, when I was standing alone at the same place where we first kissed... The kiss which felt still lingering on my lips with every breeze that touched, while I was straying along the same place I come to over and over again, to make me want to be the person before.. And there I was, standing on the shore caught in a conflict of you and me...

Deep into the reflection it was some voice that was constantly calling out interrupting me saying "Madamji, aage mat jao samundar gehera h aur lehere tez..!!"
It was when it got louder I stopped, and lost in you I never realised I walked way past from the shore, the way I walked away from being me and colored anew with your love... I stood still with knee deep water, feeling the sand taken away from beneath, every time the wave receded into the sea taking a part of me inch by inch moving me deeper...and I saw you in me triumphing, was when i prepared to give in..!!

All ready to sink into your flooding reminiscence, all ready to believe there's nothing left to look ahead for, with you not by my side, was when the water started shining making the sea beyond look, a bed of gold laid by setting sun. My gaze stuck at the horizon, I could see nothing, but the sea hugging the red sky refraining to let go. I tried to seek what lies beyond hoping that there must be an end where they would cease to be one since somewhere deep down I knew they should.. Gazing into the setting sun, changing colors around every time coming closer to the sea, as you changed my world with every step you took towards me. All my efforts were washed off and my quest came to a stand still when you echoed in the midst of all the clamour. You are like Air you called me, free, fragile and effortlessly to be loved, yet strong enough to wave a tranquil sea. It made a silent tear roll down my cheek awakening me from the thoughts making me aware that there's no end to our oneness as for the sea under the red sky, no end where we would be in silo to the world... My love for you is way beyond being together and moving on...way beyond what's right and wrong..way beyond what the humans want...you taught me to love, how can it be unlearned..?? How can I return to be the same person I used to be when you pulled me close and loved me till my cheeks hurt with joy... You turned toppled my world and painted it fresh how can it fade away with a wave to wash.??

You made me feel loved, made me feel alive, made me love and made me be wise...you were a part and always will be of my life.. I pulled myself together with all of you treasured in me...there, strength I named you and walked back to life... At the shore the waves erased the footsteps left behind...they were fading but you won't... The last wish you said is 'Me to love someone with every piece of my heart the way we did when we first kissed', is a promise I keep now that you are gone..

Like the blues of the heavens and the earth are apart still one so we will be knit together still distant till the horizon cease to shun ..!! Maybe a lifetime after we would be together, a time We would be complete underneath the red sky..!!

By,

Sushmita.. :)