Sweeter Than Honey

Sweeter Than Honey
She appeared to be sweeter than honey till a few days ago. This was when I wanted to taste a wee bit of her and make sure. I only had to kiss her to be sure. I didn’t know what her reaction was going to be when I placed my maiden symbol of love on her. I don’t know how many such symbols of love had been placed on her at earlier instances. I didn’t want to know. It wasn’t relevant.

I wonder if similar thoughts ran through Adam’s mind before he kissed Eve for the first time. Eve must have been a bit perplexed before she comprehended the implication of Adam’s gesture, but I know a thrill ran down her being when she realised Adam loved her. It must have been the greatest feeling she had ever experienced.

I am sure she blushed to the roots of her ears when Adam made his gesture. I was before someone better than the first woman on earth. She had a comprehensive knowledge of all symbols used by humans ever since. But she had her own set of demerits. for the time being, I didn’t look at the bundle at my feet; my eyes were focussed on stars.

I had idealised her as a perfect being who was going to pull me out of all my miseries. I had been through what appeared to me to be a lot.  I don’t know if I should use a superlative degree of comparison here or a comparative degree. All the same, my subjective experiences were belittled by her presence before me.

I was beholding perfection incarnated while these thoughts ran through my mind. She was a fairy-queen who only had to wave her magic-wand in the air to make all of my miseries disappear into thin air. I had clung on to this idea for  a long time. I was going to witness all this come true in a few days.

For a while, I wondered what her reaction was to be like I got to know I was not the ideal and perfect man she had dreamt of being with. I don’t know what sort of dreams ran through her mind in her celibacy, and how many of them were going to come true in the many days we were to be together. Some of them were already dying a slow death, while a others were going to bite the dust soon, I know.

I had discovered quite a bit of her in the past few days. She was certainly not the ideal woman I had had in my mind. She was like anyone else. She had her own set of merits and demerits. She wasn’t the ideal and perfect being I had borne in my mind for a long time, but she was certainly someone special in my life. Practically, I was prepared to accept the worst even before I thought of planting my first kiss on her. I was going to give all my love and attention to her.

Love has the power to  throw such a strong flood-light on lovers that all positive and negative traits of their characters are brought to the fore. We were in love, or at least I was in love with her. I’m still not sure if this can be said to be true of her too, she never confessed anything, but I feel sure my feelings were reciprocated in the same coin. It shall bring forth all positive and negative qualities in her, and she shall not be the mystery she was when I thought of kissing her for the first time.

 All the same, I had little doubts that she was going to ring some new bells in my life. I badly want to hear some new chimes ringing in a new era in my life, but I have been only waiting for my future to be here. I can never have done anything more about it.

I only hope the bells she rings chime longer than any other bells that have ever echoed within me.