It was a beautiful day. The
sun had completed its tour for the day and moon has begun replacing it.
It was a cool windy evening. The swaying of trees and rustling of leaves
could be heard but not be seen as darkness has started replacing light and
blurring the whole view. Whole area was incensed with aroma of flowers
who seems to whisper like a street full of people saying ssshhhhhh
together. The whole atmosphere is filled with birds chirping, as they
have done their duty and has started returning home.
Among all this, there was a bird named tiya, flying with her compeers. They were all tweeting, twittering, whistling, singing in chorus their treasured dawn song. They were about to reach their colony when suddenly they heard some thunderous sounds. It was coming from bushes. Then they saw a man with a gun and net traps. Seeing this they all got panicked and horrified and started rushing here and there. In all this hustle Tiya got lost and started crying and screaming for help. Fear has blurred her vision and she dashed herself to a tree and fell down. The man took her and put her in cage inside car and left. She started screaming louder but there was no one to hear or understand her. She kept yelling and screeching with helplessness as she is witnessing her home going away from her.
Days have passed inside cage. She is missing badly, her home, her friends, her family. She spends whole day thinking and dreaming, what all she will do when she will meet them. She gets terrified by mere thinking that she will die without seeing her loved once again in her life. She is yearning to go home, to hear her mother’s voice one last time, to sleep on her lap and hug her tightly that will take away all her fears and make her feel safe and comfortable. Hoping to see her dad again, so that she can grasp his arm and kiss on his forehead. Missing all those happy moments that she had with her friends. It all looks like a yesterday’s thing, when they all were around, laughing on stupid nonsense things for hours, giggling, chattering, flying freely as wind till the sun shines, and then returning back home in evening.
Her world comes shattering down with every day. At times she wonder why no one has come for help. Has everyone really forgotten her? Is she no more a part of their life? Where are all those who promised to keep her safe and be there all through her life. Sometimes out of distress she blames herself thinking it was all her fault. She starts imagining what all she would have done in that situation. It would have never happened if she would have stayed stronger. May be it’s all her fault and she has earned this fate for herself. Now its an everyday story, get up, fight to break bars of prison and then again get back to sleep with disappointment. She has started feeling herself as a lost cause. Slowly she has stopped fighting, her tears has began drying up. She has given up all her hopes. Sometimes she thought of putting an end to all this by killing herself, thinking that may be that’s the best way to end all her pain and sufferings. But then the slightest hope of seeing loved once again, stops her every time from doing this. She starts remembering what all her mother taught, be strong and hang on.
At times she wonders why is she feeling so miserable. She has to believe that if she has survived this one she will survive anything that will come on her way.She has stood strong for so long then why is she giving up now. Her greatest fears have already been realized, and now she has nothing to loose. Then what it is that’s holding her back. May be its not the physical cage but the imaginary prison that is breaking her down. Its not the darkness outside but the darkness inside that is making her irresolute and weak. Its not her present condition that is frightening her but her thoughts and insecurities about future that is crippling her. Its the worries of future and not the present problems that is holding her back.
She has started realizing that its no more a fight to break the prison. Instead, it has turned a fight with herself. Her own thoughts are her biggest enemies. They are the ones that has power to stops her. She has decided that she should not let darkness fades her belief. The sun will shine again. She will again glide like a free bird. She will hang on and never give up. Her journey will go on till she makes it. She has understood that if you “really” wants to fly then you have to give up things that weigh you down.
Now, everyday sunrise brings new hope to her and with ever sunset she thinks of better tomorrow. She has found an island of ease in her troubled, messed up life. She may not be able to break the materialistic prison but she has set herself free from her own prison. By losing everything she has discovered herself. She has found her voice inside closed bars and is no longer afraid to use it. She might get older and life may fades, but will never loose her determination and desire to survive.
She will keep singing, keep shouting, keep fighting with the hope that one day she will be set free :)
Among all this, there was a bird named tiya, flying with her compeers. They were all tweeting, twittering, whistling, singing in chorus their treasured dawn song. They were about to reach their colony when suddenly they heard some thunderous sounds. It was coming from bushes. Then they saw a man with a gun and net traps. Seeing this they all got panicked and horrified and started rushing here and there. In all this hustle Tiya got lost and started crying and screaming for help. Fear has blurred her vision and she dashed herself to a tree and fell down. The man took her and put her in cage inside car and left. She started screaming louder but there was no one to hear or understand her. She kept yelling and screeching with helplessness as she is witnessing her home going away from her.
Days have passed inside cage. She is missing badly, her home, her friends, her family. She spends whole day thinking and dreaming, what all she will do when she will meet them. She gets terrified by mere thinking that she will die without seeing her loved once again in her life. She is yearning to go home, to hear her mother’s voice one last time, to sleep on her lap and hug her tightly that will take away all her fears and make her feel safe and comfortable. Hoping to see her dad again, so that she can grasp his arm and kiss on his forehead. Missing all those happy moments that she had with her friends. It all looks like a yesterday’s thing, when they all were around, laughing on stupid nonsense things for hours, giggling, chattering, flying freely as wind till the sun shines, and then returning back home in evening.
Her world comes shattering down with every day. At times she wonder why no one has come for help. Has everyone really forgotten her? Is she no more a part of their life? Where are all those who promised to keep her safe and be there all through her life. Sometimes out of distress she blames herself thinking it was all her fault. She starts imagining what all she would have done in that situation. It would have never happened if she would have stayed stronger. May be it’s all her fault and she has earned this fate for herself. Now its an everyday story, get up, fight to break bars of prison and then again get back to sleep with disappointment. She has started feeling herself as a lost cause. Slowly she has stopped fighting, her tears has began drying up. She has given up all her hopes. Sometimes she thought of putting an end to all this by killing herself, thinking that may be that’s the best way to end all her pain and sufferings. But then the slightest hope of seeing loved once again, stops her every time from doing this. She starts remembering what all her mother taught, be strong and hang on.
At times she wonders why is she feeling so miserable. She has to believe that if she has survived this one she will survive anything that will come on her way.She has stood strong for so long then why is she giving up now. Her greatest fears have already been realized, and now she has nothing to loose. Then what it is that’s holding her back. May be its not the physical cage but the imaginary prison that is breaking her down. Its not the darkness outside but the darkness inside that is making her irresolute and weak. Its not her present condition that is frightening her but her thoughts and insecurities about future that is crippling her. Its the worries of future and not the present problems that is holding her back.
She has started realizing that its no more a fight to break the prison. Instead, it has turned a fight with herself. Her own thoughts are her biggest enemies. They are the ones that has power to stops her. She has decided that she should not let darkness fades her belief. The sun will shine again. She will again glide like a free bird. She will hang on and never give up. Her journey will go on till she makes it. She has understood that if you “really” wants to fly then you have to give up things that weigh you down.
Now, everyday sunrise brings new hope to her and with ever sunset she thinks of better tomorrow. She has found an island of ease in her troubled, messed up life. She may not be able to break the materialistic prison but she has set herself free from her own prison. By losing everything she has discovered herself. She has found her voice inside closed bars and is no longer afraid to use it. She might get older and life may fades, but will never loose her determination and desire to survive.
She will keep singing, keep shouting, keep fighting with the hope that one day she will be set free :)
