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Hello Everyone,
With weekend nearing an end... and obsessions at their peak... yet another random idea took shape in this drifting mind... that I thought I'd share with y'all in the form of a short story....
Request - I have deliberately chosen not to name the characters (although it would be glaringly obvious) for the fear of drawing boundaries on the essence of the story... and would really love to know your interpretations of the story , if any...!
Lament of the Rainbow
The dull rhythm of the waves whispering with the shore... seemed to lull him back to the moments ... moments that seemed to be flooding back afore him... filling him .. with emotions... that left him dizzying ecstatic and yet made him shiver with nervous anxiety and apprehension...
Her unquestioning eyes... had for the first time been filled with a question... and that which he hadn't understood...
She had stood there benumbed... her tearful eyes searching his...desperately ... for ...something... an answer....it was... he realized now... even as the question remained elusive now...
The cool ocean breeze... made him shiver... as he let the memories of the moment fill his being...
"What were you saying... ... " his thoughts broke..."what didn't I understand...."... he struggled to clear his thoughts...as the vision of her tearful eyes ... her quivering lips... her hesitation that masked her desperation... loomed afore him , he could feel it even now...she was pleading him... and yet he hadn't been able to see it... as clearly as he saw it now...
A pang of guilt hit him deep... as the thought cleared his mind..."She was pleading..."..."And I...."...
Slowly closing his eyes... he lifted his gaze again to stare at the ocean...as he let the sound of the waves lashing against the shore... fill his being...as his thoughts drifted away....
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Silence... was all he had felt.. in the very moment and ever since...
The deafening silence , was all he felt... silent tears shed in the dark night... , the pleading unquestioning eyes, was all he saw, the muffled painful sob, was all that tugged at his heart....
He could feel the silence... and yet it eluded him... just as it had ... her tearful eyes... searching empty eyes... the unspoken questions elusive... the answers buried deep within, unacknowledged unfelt...
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"Tears aren't the answer ... Damn it"... he had snapped ...a voice deep within, mocking him as he stood... there helpless...averting his gaze to the whispering ocean ... in the dark... as he felt ... her silent tears tug at his heart... as he stood there wishing, the tears to disappear, the answers to reach her... unaware... he was the answer....
Helpless, he had stood, the noetic senses overpowering him, ...incapable... unworthy... he felt... as the voice of his heart ... faded into the noetic chaos ...
The sound of the waves , could hush not, the whisper of her silent footsteps... as she walked away... as he closed his eyes... momentarily... only to gaze back at the ocean...
"I have felt your silence , believed I understood... and yet now... I don't..." the thoughts broke into his chaotic mind....as her silent footsteps ... faded into the dark night....leaving him alone... as a faint voice... spoke in desperation...deep inside..." talk to me.... coz I can't hear you... "
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"You've felt the silence... always....".. tears brimmed in her tired hopeful eyes... as she turned away....the thought tearing her heart... " then hear the unspoken ... for your silence mocks and benumbs me tonite..." ... the cool breeze of the ocean... soothing her burdened heart.... as the whispers of the waves... seemed to comfort her... that it ain't the end...as she walked away in the glaring dawn... of realization... that it was time... time ... to look beyond... beyond... all that had been apparent....
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The sound of the waves lashing against the shore , was all that tore into the silence... as a cloud drifted in the dark sky... as the moonlight danced on the waves...
Lost in his thoughts, he watched the waves, whispering, lashing... the moonlight dancing on the waves...
It was perfect... it was beautiful... as he watched the ocean afore , as he broke... out of his thoughts... realization dawning ....
Elusive was the answer no more, for question, there was none... elusive was he never to her... ,... elusive was he... to himself....so long...
A exhilarating sense... sent him into a dizzying ecstasy.....the answer lay afore him..... ....a pang of hopelessness..lurched inside his heart.. as pain tore into his heart .... yet .. the answer would remain elusive to her now... just as it had ... to him...all along...
A unspoken dream of togetherness.... the rainbow promised....
A wasted tear, shed in the name of the elusive...
Lament does the rainbow... as unrequited , unseen, lies the promise of the unspoken dream...
Leaning over the window sill... he stared at the calm moon... the stars reveling in the togetherness of the room... as he felt the dull drizzle on his face...
He stood there... letting the dark rain... wash over his face... hoping in desperation... the tears to be washed away into silence...the chill of the dark night ... to benumb him to eternity...
"Muffled sobs fade away into the silent thunder; searing pain ebbs in the benumbing chill...as the angels weep over the lament of the rainbow..."
- Sareeta
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