Saturday, October 27, 2007

Beginning of the End !!

It was a loud scream. Everyone's attention was lured towards the source that created so much decibels. It was a Woman!

The people watching this woman were full of pity towards her. But the pity that woman had towards herself was much more that what all the people had together between themselves. She cursed her God for making her go through all this. What else could be worse than giving birth to her first child at a Refugee Camp !!

Unable to withstand the searing pain she tried to distract herself. She thought of her husband. She tried to remember their happy days. But instead,the memories of him dying flashed through her memory. His patriotism had killed him. He ended up at the wrong side of the gun. He should'nt have died, she thought. But he did.

As she was suffering from this mental trauma, another thing was troubling her. She thought of the pain. Was it the pain that was troubling her? No was the answer. Some thing other than the pain. It was her baby!! What was the hurry the baby had in seeing this world, she thought. The world did not even give her a place to live. Her home was now the camp. That too, she did not know how long. Can't the baby wait till she found her home? The baby thought otherwise. It was as though the baby was impatient to land up in the camp and share his mother's trouble. That strong was their bond !!

Yet another scream! The baby was born. She felt so weak and exhausted that everything seemed to be a dream. She could see her baby lying still. The Obstetrician was pointing out to the nurse that the baby was not crying and it was slightly blue. They were worried.The mother found it to be strange. Who will want anyone to cry?? That too if one didn't , getting worried?? That was weird to her. But as the time passed on, they were panicking about the fact that the baby did not cry. She also started getting worried. She preferred to trust the Obstetrician's view in this. If they felt that her baby had to cry, it had to cry. She told within herself.. cry..cry..cry.. She even prayed to God to make her baby cry.She was almost pleading.. cry..please cry..Please..cry..please..cry..cry... and it cried !!

The baby cried for five minutes continously as though he will never cry again in his life. The world was strange, she thought. Sometimes one even has to pray for making someone cry. The baby's colour returned to normal pink. The very thought that she had her baby now with her gave her a new strength. A new beginning. But it was the Beginning of the End !!

She gave her baby a kiss. A final Kiss. Or was it the first one?? Both !! The baby's hand was holding on to her finger. It somehow knew that his mother was going to leave him.It cried again. This time she pleaded her son to stop crying.Because the sound of her baby's cry was holding her back. She thought that she had to go. Back to her country. Back to the struggle. To take up from where her husband had left. But was it so powerful a reason to leave her newborn and go?? To her it was !! And she left !!

To her baby it was the beginning. To her it was the Beginning of the End !!

5 comments:

Ramya said...

its damn nice, and so sweet.. but only prob is maniratnam made a movie out of it yrs back. :P

Dewdrop said...

@ramya

Which movie is it dear??? ;)

Unknown said...

good one dude..

navita said...

it was gr8 !!! cool dear ... simply wonderful !!! :)

Shady said...

Good one.

I hope you watched the movie "கன்னத்தில் முத்தமிட்டால்..." and it affected you very much...

But, your narration is fine man.