Before I go-
Let me introduce-This is a silent chap!
It took me hours to understand, once written...
And kindly say me how long it took yours...
Let me go away quietly...
Chapter-9:
May you live, O Moon! Do not set that till I see him who has departed without quitting my soul!
-Thiruvalluvar.
Ayesha felt better when she saw her friend was all right and was going to discharge in two days time.
Even a ray of smile came to her lips, when she started for the office from the hospital.
The note book was adorned with...
What, Poems?'
They said they were written by Sakshi neatly, from the signature under each one.
After the first few lines, he came to know that, not only the wordings but also the words were written artfully!
After reading some of them, he wondered that what he was doing was correct, -but he could not stop the urge to read more - for they resembled a diary!
She was going to open her heart to her dear Dhi today.
She was going to tell her Dhi her feelings towards Arjun in person and show her the poems she had written,
Written, when everything except the pillow went away from her...
Drizzled after gathering a rain in the eyes...
Whimpered, as inviting the moon through the window and drew a mustache and ears...
Poured, after melting the frozen moments meticulously leaving nothing as turning towards her...
Seen, after etching the flaming curt look...
They were chosen out of a hundred like them...
At times, while she could not show her heart herself, they were the ones waiting to explain him themselves, for her sake, if gotten in hands...
Chottu started reading...
Stars that twinkle!
While returning
The kiss bag
That you've given
It's overturned
On the street
Oh! Everything is upside down
In love!...
-saKshiA.
They say...
Uniting two hearts is love
But my single heart's cracked into two
Once you came...
One heart does crack you up
And the other is cracking up doing so...
-saKshiA.
Not a poem
Write a letter
In my name
At least...
Not about done
Write about forgotten
In my thought
At least...
-saKthiA.
By moving...
You've moved the wind jubilantly
And blew the shooting buds of water lily
Which prayed with pent lips
When will be me?
-saKshiA.
You are at the door
Demanding an entry
While it's you
Who has filled in
And latched tight
It's my fragile heart's door
That splits amid.
-saKshiA.
(If you are here then I can take it I've won!)
She thought negotiations must have been going on out there. Soon she would be released.
These confusions must have been happening for some documents, since she was not a celebrity to be kidnapped for money.
She had stopped crying for her present condition.
Her uncle would see to it that she would be released at any cost.
What if Dad comes to know about this?'
No it won't go that far!'
She comforted herself.
What she was worrying about seriously was her dress.
Her tops had lost a button, the top one to be exact.
It was there lying on the floor within her reach.
It hurt her like hell every time she had to set eyes on it.
To cover her chest from exposing, she had to shake her head to throw the stray hair to her front every time she heard footsteps, behind.
He was not aware of my entry.
As I placed my bag on the table, I just said,
"Hi, Chottu!"
He jumped at my voice as though he was coming from another world.
"Welcome to earth!" I commented.
But he said in a hoarse voice.
"Shree! Do you like poems?"
Then I really saw him like an ET' member, not of an ETF' one.
"Can you understand them?"
He asked with emotion in his eyes as he thumbed the pages of the book before him.
I took my seat and smiled affably.
As I got that he was waiting for an answer, I said, somewhat lightly,
"If they are in electronic or computer language!"
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