Witnessing a thaw in
the bitter relations between the two neigbhbours,
witnessing the boundary lines demarcating
them getting blurred,
witnessing the fences from one
end to the other end being removed,
with great enthusiasms after a long spell
witnessing the swift flow of rivers of citizens
-
among them, relatives, friends, students,
children
siblings, celebrities, sports men and artists
to be precise
witnessing a swift and smooth flow of
peace-loving ones
mingling with one another
each one embracing each
without any hindrances
otherwise
a never-ending flow,
without any dark clouds
looming in the horizon.
He saw
a clear, cloudless, blue sky up above
for the first time since
the rivalry and fissures
developed between both
decades before.
The ambience of
love, camaraderie and harmony
engulfing everyone
both getting
dissolved and evolving in to a single river.
Everything he witnessed with
excitement, pleasure and
ecstasy
sitting on the sidelines.
The stream of pleasure
excitement and ecstasy came
to an abrupt end
with his wife awakening him
with a cup of black-tea
early in the morning.
The realization that
what all he witnessed was
a dream, a long-cherished dream
remaining
unfulfilled without bearing
fruits and cute, colourful flowers in this sprawling garden
of
love and bonhomie……
He could hear a chain of ear-splitting explosions
reverberating
across the land.
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