Experiment : Describe the landscape as seen by an old woman whose disgusting and detestable husband has just died….. don’t describe /mention husband or death
I see a garden sprawled in front of me ……. I at my age have seen many seasons come and go … spring flowers blossom, summer mating happen, the rains, the winters…. Life that starts to grow, takes a leap and then withers away into nothingness.
This is my favorite spot, I come here everytime I need to breath clean fresh air, clear my head from recent events, look at the carpet of many different laid out by the fresh blossoms, may be find a reason to see tomorrow and gather enough strength to go back home…..
Home …. I don’t like this word….. it isn’t what it use to be, when we started it was pink like the new blossoms of the pink I see in front of my eyes right now, the sunny yellow laughter, scarlet red craziness, ever green peace….a rainbow of happiness … all the good emotions, all blossomed throughout the four seasons….. it wasn’t limited to the weather grind like the landscape in front of me.
I wasn’t scared of winters then, the bones didn’t creek and the moods didn’t sway…. The life didn’t stop still under the white blanket….. now ! now the life is not the same ….. the winter resides throughout…. The once beautiful everlasting spring now gone, the white blanket so thick and hard… so white that it reflects the wanted and unwanted memories ….
For some reasons the unwanted ones weigh more now…… the bitterness creeping in , the blossoms withered….. I don’t expect the spring to come back now, I know the summer wont, I can hear the big old raven caws and not the birds sing….
Its evening now, the suns about to set….. one has just ended and the other waiting to meet its end….
I like sitting here remembering the everlasting springs and summers, the sweet fruits, the melodious birds, the beautiful landscape dreamt together……
it’s a better escape before I go back to the bitter truth, before I go back to the lonely winters to breathe a sigh of relief and find peace in the now everlasting white winters….