Tag: Hurt

Posted in Love

Awaiting

Posted on by Shaily Agrawal

I look at the clock for the hundredth time. He’s still not home.

3:21 AM: It’s futile to wait up. It is only 3 hour journey. If he was coming home tonight, he would be home long back.

4:07 AM: But his friend had said he met him at VT station…

5:37 AM: He probably didn’t find a train…

6:58 AM: But why hasn’t he picked up the phone?

8:09 AM: Is he alright? Why would he not call me back? I know he is always angry but how can he ignore 26 calls?

9:16 AM: Did he have an accident?

9:45 AM: Should I call police?

10:15 AM: His text reads, “The maid will be late.”

11:13 AM: The maid is home, more cheerful than usual.

11:30 AM: He saunters in more cheerful than usual. I rush to meet him. His hair is wet from the shower.

I quietly move to the inner room. He speaks to the maid in a low tone. They laugh…

Posted in Love

All in My Head

Posted on by Shaily Agrawal

Before I met you,

I always wondered

If you had meant

More than your words.

 

When you took my name

On the call,

I dreamt of the sparks

You’ll send with your first touch.

 

I longed to meet you

So that

You’d look at me

With eyes full of love.

 

I trusted when

You found me alone

That you would care

If I get hurt.

 

But now that I’m hurt,

I know

It was all in my head.

It was all in my head.

Posted in Life and After

Tiny Story: After

Posted on by Shaily Agrawal

The loneliness had become too much. Every one told him that he should move to a new city and start over again. He could, then, meet new people, and may be, even find love again…

He looked at his children: five and eight. Would they mind moving? Of course, they would! Their lives were here with their grandparents, their school and friends. He couldn’t uproot them at a whim!

He couldn’t hurt them, so he let the memories hurt him.