Love

The leaves are shed, the green faded.When the wintry winds from afar brush me by, a familiar scent intoxicates me and drags me back. In my desperation, I try to suck in the remnants of the fragrance of my loved one. I stare at sky, at the dull stars and the distant moon. Perhaps the one I love is also gazing at the same lonesome spectacle in some remote land..perhaps he is loving me this very moment..The night-road stretches out, aloof and desolate. Humanity lies still in a drowsy slumber.The faint amber light makes the realm mysterious. I start walking. I walk till the end of the earth, with stars blinking on and the faint golden glow illuminating my way. There I see him waiting, lost and alone. I find him and caress him back to the world. He says he's still scared of  losing his way again, but I assure him that I'll never let go of his hand. Where the world ends, there lies no life, only lost souls wander there. Our journey back, though fraught with perils, only entwines our hearts closer. When I reach the old street, he looks around for familiarity. After an era my love holds me close. It's been so many years that he fails to recognize the environs of  where we started. A sense of lack of belonging grips him. Again I say that he will always be mine. As I comfort him, brushing my lips across his worn out beautiful face, he holds me tight. He says that I saved from the curse of being an eternal wanderer forgotten by time and space. I say that he saved me from living at the destination alone, waiting for something magical to happen. I lay down his tired self on my lap and stroke his hair. He relaxes and asks,'Why can't Time forget us now?'. I reply that the most beautiful of moments are always fleeting, for that's how they acquire their preciousness.It would be futile to try to trick Time. But for once, I felt as if I had captured Happiness and put the treasure in a chest with a time-lock. She would no doubt flee in the future, but for now, it is here, with us. My love suddenly starts silently weeping..for the time that once was, for our young dreams that never matured and for the suffering we underwent. Our time in the  past was so long ago, so brief that it was unjust :To have bliss touch us for just a little while and then craftily escape....We talk about those happy plans..of a wedding, of little ones, of growing old together and sadness seeps in like a guileful mist. But no, I will not let it ruin the culmination of our long hard struggle of finding each other. I force my mind to focus on the present. I tell my love that we were destined to be lost forever and become unnoticeable.. but we didn't let that happen. Or rather we did find each other before it happens. Before long the dawn breaks...today it looks different..The sun appears warmer and it's golden glow welcoming. We hold each other tightly and exchange one final goodbye. The release we were fighting for aeons must now come and we have to let go... the dark spring of 2014 revisits us...the blood and the gore..and then....nothing. The dense zephyr gently floats away, to the final resting place of the dead.