Her Masked Agenda.
God never sends you into a situation alone Maya! He heard your prayers dear!
God goes before you like your theme definer. He stands beside you like your mask to hide you from the menacing glares. He walks behind you as your protector Rudra. Whatever situation you are in, be confident, God is with you Maya, God is with you!!
Prior to her venturing out, she prayed to God to assist her when she enters the Chakravyuh!
Her caged past waging a war in her inner self to define life’s worth in front of that partying crowd. She was thinking--
"I've crossed some kind of invisible line. I feel as if I've come to a place I never thought I'd have to come to. And I don't know how I got here. It's a strange place. It's a place where my dreams were muted, my life was melted into lava, which has led me into considerations of death and annihilation.”
A shadow entered into the party as a sought after guest with her masked agenda, carrying her past as a passing memento for the first showdown, to pronounce her first judgment! Though shadows come as if part of a natural image, in truth, they revealed more truths than the bright lights or the darkness!! ---she walked in, suddenly saw the gloomy shadows that were following her, haunting her within. Her entry generated the required abuzz, everyone was clearly under pressure, but pretending to enjoy the sip with a nip!
She declared her entry into the Chakravyuh by blurring everyone’s vision! Maya walked in confidently but a flash of her past, where … she was walking into the house nervously on the previous occasion and looked at MJ with an innocent smile then. But now--?
Amir informed MJ that investor has come!! MJ turned back and lights have gone off. The host announced--' there are friends and foes in this house like everywhere, to hide, they can wear masks!' Maya wears a mask nervously while MJ walks towards her. Lights are back.
Her eyes were glued to the figure a few meters away, she moved towards the bright lights, but paused.. Her heartbeat quickened, stopped, looked around for an escape route; “I have to risk it,” she thought.
There this shadow is an alluring reality to everyone, his longing eyes invited her in, given her a chance to dwell in, to diffuse the surrounding lights, to hide her in his eyes, which is a safe haven for her at that moment!
.An attempt by an impersonating investor met with a certain threat from MJ.No matter how hard he pretends, he can’t deny the presence of doubt in his mind.
A flicker of temptation here and a flash of horror there! Rishi the inquisitive chic wanted to meet his bro’s sweetheart. Rudra rose out of the murky depths of mud puddles of his past again, started infusing life into his searching eyes! The beautiful outline of a shadowy reflection has already possessed him when he was quite unaware of it!
She flashed her back and asked him to fix her dress lace! Rudra nervously fixed it. He was thinking –
“Love is one of the most profound emotions and is therefore often indescribable. Surely, I am being rewarded because I have you in my hands, Maya. I have seen the other version of me in your presence, your touch made my rock-like heart into a beautiful sculpture! Silence in between you and me is like a symphony, come to listen to those melodies once…. the power of your smile should never be underestimated. That is restless to talk to you, let it speak Maya, let your smile talk to your lips” His eyes started writing lyrics on the surface of a dreamy sky!
When he was so nearer to her she was hesitant to admit the truth!--
“I prefer to be strong, strong enough to risk being broken all over again, to love again Rudra! This feeling is so strange. It's overwhelming, yet makes me feel complete!! It feels as if I’m in a dangerous fire, yet I’m completely safe at the same time. When I met you, I'd already lost my entire world. Rudra, please tell me the truth…. are you a camera? Because every time I look at you I want to smile??” she smiled at herself like a young girl! They know that it was all dream, life will never allow them to relax. She walked away saying a simple thank you to him.
A dark figure started moving towards her, ominously advancing as she walked hesitantly down that abandoned memory lane!
A decisive Maya heard a dreaded man’s dominating footsteps approaching her! She faked the hit and fall of her bag, he said sorry and returned her bag. Without turning back, she accepted it, but shivering in fear. A clash of culprits, one was searching for the truth which allured him, and the other was already meted justice to him, the prey met its fate, silenced in the water!
she murmured --
The past pain that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots of hurt not reached by the frost!
From the ashes, a fire shall be woken,
Light from the shadows shall spring,
Renewed shall be a blade of grass that was broken,
The crushed crownless again shall be a Monarch!!