Never Think Forlorn

It was a slow walk down a boulevard on a drizzling twilight. Her mind though full of agitated questions, she was in peace. It was a long walk with company of self, holding someone else.

All smiles, suddenly her legs were broken. Down she fell and landed into a puddle. All her talks of “get up and walk on” were deaf to her own ears. She sat there with a forlorn look in her eyes, head down, immobile, drenched in now heavily pouring rain.

Hours ticked by, still no sound escaped her lips, unaware of everything. A mess.

She looked up, surprised; someone had called her name. She looked up to see a hand outstretched at her. She turned her head away. The sound called her again breaking her trance. She ignored it. It was not the sound she longed to hear. The sound yet again spoke to her. It was soft. She closed her eyes, shutting everything out; muting every possible melody that can exist.

The sound was not used to being ignored. Its strong hands gripped hers, and pulled her up; forcing her to open her eyes and face the world. “This is not the end of it”, the sound said. She winced at the pain. She was conscious of the sound now. It shook her out of a dead world, even if for a moment.

She looked around at the new world; waiting for her to explore.

The sound spoke to her again urging her to walk. She obeyed. Took a step, she stumbled. The strong arms held her; kept her steady. An unspoken support.

Days passed by. She now walks on her own. Uncertainty still lives in her heart; but she walks on. There is a void. She knows not what she wants, still she walks on. There are some dreams, waiting to be painted, picture though blurred.

There is a want to do something and cut the string that has bound her tight. A soundless thought. A wordless song. Waiting to form and burst out. It’s all muted, for now.

There is a way. She will figure it out, in time. She knows she is strong.

She is not born to exist.

She learnt, “One failure is not the end of all. It all matters on how you get up and walk ahead. It all matters on how you turn out to be out of that failure.”