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| By: Gauravi Kashyap |
Under the shelter of
twinkling stars was walking a frustrated soul , a tired body , a broken heart ,
a lost mind.
Society called him
Sabaab.
He was a person who
loved looking at sky , the twinkling stars , a peaceful night.. But this time
he wasn't. All he wanted was a dark , lonely place to hide in.
What made him here..?
He closed his eyes
and all the past memories hit him.
A beautiful lady
standing by his side and Sabaab is struggling hard to hold all her shopping
bags and hand bag properly while the lady is enjoying the ice cream and finally
he speaks out of frustration..
“ sweetheart you
think holding all this is easy .!. It's way more difficult than handling you
Meera”
Whereas Meera’s
response is a giggle along with just three words …
“ Brother….! then
enjoy”
Sabaab is Meera’s
Rakhi brother .
He is an orphan but a
well earning person , an orphan because who he had was a father who died seven
years back.. and now his family only consists of Meera whom he met two years
back.
Finally Sabaab and
Meera reached his flat . Sabaab as usual forgets closing the door and Meera as
usual hits the bed , grabs a pillow , lying down like a child .., a child so
cute ..trying to occupy all the space so that no one else could.
Sabaab pushes her to
a corner and makes a little place for himself in response to which she starts
tickling him ...while they both were busy teasing and tickling each other like
twins .. ,
Someone enters from
the door , hits back the door hard and shouts with anger .. “How dare you to be
with him, I told you Meera he is not of our kind ..Are we dead that you are
being with a man not of our religion, A Muslim…!”
Meera gets up out of
fear and starts fumbling...
“ Bhai I told you
several times he is my brother .. He
loves me as much as you do ..please try to understand we are family” and she
breaks down into tears while Sabaab tries to hold her and make her calm
Divyansh , Meera’s brother pushes Sabaab away and forcefully takes Meera out of
the flat .
Next day Sabaab goes
to Meera’s home but is kicked out by her father who yells out that he will make
sure that they will never meet again and says… “I know you people and your
values.. So better stay away from my daughter”
Sabaab waits for
months but comes no positive result. A brother waiting for her sister to return
..,.one day comes to know that her sister is getting married . He feels so
bound and helpless that the one for whom he bought number of gifts , the one
for whom he used to wait hours , the one who once said..
“Idiot you know I'll
only marry the one approved by you… and you will have to take proper leave from
the office for preparations”..., the one who was his only family is now the one
he is not allowed to meet.
This is what made him
here… !
Society is what made
him here..!
So called Religion
love is what made him here..!
Sabaab opened his
eyes all of a sudden …. He hardly knew where was he upto..
A left alone son…,
and a made alone brother.
“There was a story
they thought of making..
But here is a story
that society made..
You made ..we made..
We gave him a story
of wait immortal!”
Gauravi Kashyap is a poetess & writer; she writes on various issues that concern human-life
