She Walks Into The Sunset

It was a beautiful sunset that day. The suns rays permeated the atmosphere; there was a typical orange colour, and it was beautiful! But all of it hardly mattered to me now. She was all set on leaving me. There were tears on her face, and a quiver on her lips while she prepared to leave. The parting wasn’t going to be easy for her too, I know.

She would never be back again, I knew. I writhed in frustration, knowing this was the end of our relationship that was never to be mended. There was a fire burning in our hearts only a few months ago, but it had been doused by time. We had grown tired of each other; there seemed to be nothing new in the sunrise everyday, while there was the same old sunset in the horizon every evening.

She walked out of my life and house as if she were walking out of a multiplex after watching a movie that had unexpectedly ended in a tragedy. It was as simple as that for her. She had been in favour of comedies. She wanted to see one when she walked into the multiplex of our relationship. All my appeals fell on deaf ears and all my missives in the electronic medium hardly permeated the thick covering of her heart.

She dreamt of enjoying freedom and a carefree life even after marriage. The tonos of responsibilities marital life put up before her were simply not digested by her. she wanted to soar on her wings to the skies despite the fact that her wings had been clipped by a quintal of responsibilities.

She had married because she could not resist natural forces; moreover, she looked u; at the dignity married women walk with, she wanted it for herself. Somewhere deep in her heart, she knew practically well that she was asking for a few days of happiness at the cost of a life’s discomfort, and the honeymoon had been shorter than a few days for the poor girl.

She had certainly got the social security she was looking for, she did walk with quite some dignity, but the horde of responsibilities she got was certainly not in the bag she expected to find after marriage.

The oppressive aura she found herself in began to encircle her soul. She was suffocated by the atmosphere she found herself in. She wanted to be free after all. I did my best to bring her back to my side of the wall, but all my attempts at reparation were too late to be effective.

She eventually walked into the sunset to leave a dark, dismal and gloomy world behind herself.