Sitting on my knees in the middle of the foot-path... and it's raining, raining heavily -- pittr pattr... I look up. My tears lost in the drops of rain... my cries lost in the sounds of the downfall.... People are passing by, some laughing, some in their own world, some trying to help.... But I drive them away..something about me does. All-alone, I sit there for hours. He comes out of nowhere, " are you crazy?" and covers me with his half wet coat and takes me under the shed.. " what has happened to you? you know that I love you right? don't cry, please don't. I am here for you, always. I promise." I look at him, he kisses away the tear trickling down my cheek...He loves me a lot...knows me the most. Why then does it feel so uncertain to tell him that I love him? Its' a face, a face that keeps coming in front of my eyes...it doesn't let me sleep. Wherever I go, it comes with me... when I am having fun, watching a movie, when I score bad or miss home, when I am eating or drinking water, when I am studying or wasting time on the net. It doesn't leave me alone. It wants me to want it..so badly I've never wanted anything in life. There's a thunder, and then, I see him, on his knees, a ring in his hand, " will you marry me? " I look all around and there are people staring at us, waiting for my reply so they get a chance to celebrate...and again, its the face, approaching from somewhere at the back of the crowd...it reaches me, looks me in the eye and then smiles and gives a slight nod - asking me to say 'yes' ... It takes my left hand forward - for him to put the ring in the finger connecting to my heart. I am confused, why is it doing this? The face looks at me, smiles and closes it's eyes and vanishes into the thin air... A roar of celebration is all I could see and hear after that.
Now when I am alone, that face doesn't even visit me. It has left me...pining for it's company.
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