As the nurse gave the much waited
permission to visit Daya, Shreya
sprung up and pranced into the
cabin,with the thought of jabbering an
apology to him...Indeed She had been
feeling that a thorn of resentment was
pricking her badly as she had said
some unpleasant words to him just
before going to the encounter...
Outside, though Abhijeet raised his
hand half-heartedly to stop
Shreya...but he was too late...He
looked at Anila squinting his eyes and
felt bad for her...ACP and Salunkhe
too exchanged their displeased glances
and shook their heads in despair...but
something within themselves made
always them stopped to speak anything
about this issue...Perhaps they
thought it to be such a tiny issue
that speaking about this issue as if
would cripple their dignity...Anila
though kept sitting like a statue,
with a mystically stoical face...
Shreya's entrance made Daya awakened
and a titter came over his face-a
titter that was so dry that Shreya was
startled inside...Shreya too forced a
dolorous smile and slowly she advanced
towards his bed and made very effort
to jabber some words of
apology-"sorry ssir..." she
spluttered with a contrite
face,:'mmujhe...jo...ye mauka mila
hai...ki main...aap ke pas...maafi
mang saku...ye...ye...' she choked
with emotion and tears brimmed over
her eyes...A gentle affection crossed
Daya's compassionate face and he tried
to utter something but paused because
of short of breath...
:'ssir...' Shreya muttered with
difficulty,:'aap please mujhe maaf kar
dijiye...aj tak aap ko...jitna bhi
...dard...pahuchaya mmain...' she
jolted and paused getting his feeble
voice,:'main...ttum pe...gussa ya
khaffa nnahi...hun...Shreya..maafi
ka...sawal hi...paida...nahi hota
hai...' Shreya stopped and crimson
colour as if sprinkled over her
face...His seeming to be gentle and
forgiving words appeared a little curt
to her-he was smiling, he was talking
to her...he was speaking humble words
to her...but she found something
missing in it..; something she had
been expecting and still now expected
from him; perhaps a child-like
insanity or an indescribable passion
that ignited her ever since she had
talked to him...It seemed to her that
as if an apathy had been descended
upon him,making him more matured and
within her mind she kept murmuring
that it was due to his weakness and
the current condition of his
health...but still it hurt her and
with an aching heart she retracted
back slowly and almost dragged herself
out of the cabin...As soon as she came
out,Abhijeet made Anila aware and she
at once leapt to her feet and at the
entrance,collided with Shreya...She
was quick to apologise but her glance
fixed at her bloodless ashen
face...Anila's face turned tensed
while Shreya slowly lowered her eyes
and went passed her...
Shreya slowly plodding towards the
opposite,tried to keep distance from
her team members...She reached at the
side corridor with a face suffused
with tears and accidentally landed
beside the tiny window from where
Daya's cabin was getting visible..
To her consternation,she noticed
that...a smile appeared at Daya's
face seeing his wife-A smile which
possessed an ineffable beauty..perhaps
something flowed between them by that
very brief yet gentle smile...Daya
with his quivering finger,pointed
towards the stool and Anila plumping
herself over the stool,tried her best
to repress her sobs...Daya was gazing
at her face with unfathomable
tenderness...and...raised his
hand to...pat over her tousled
hair...gently...very
gently...like a father...who
coddled his tiny baby...like a
son...who pacified an agitated
mother...and like...like...'
Shreya felt her quickened breath as
her eyes kept watching and her mind
kept scrutinizing and
inferring,:'like...a caring
husband...who craved to protect his
loving wife from the crude and cruel
outer world... ' This time,she didn't
feel vicious jealousy running through
her blood but in a corner of her
contracted heart she felt a
reverence-reverence for daya sir?
for Anila? She was getting perplexed
again but she hadn't much power to
discern it as a gloom was seeping
through every part of her heart and
she was feeling a pressure upon
there...With a throttling breath she
plodded aimlessly listening to
something which was perhaps playing
somewhere...to mock her?
Kyun, phoolo ke..khile khile rang udd
gaye
kyun in dino khud se rehti hun main
khaffa khaffa...khaffa khaffa...
kyun phoolo ke khile khile rang udd
gaye...
Shreya's eyes were getting closed as
her heart weighed down with
excruciating pain...
Jane kaise mulaquato me,yuhi aisi
vaisi baato me...kare jhuthe mute wade
the...kisi chhote se bahane se...
paa ke tujhe kho diyaaaaaaaa...
meri hi hai khata..meri hi hai saza
phir bhi dil kahe ye kyu huyaaaaaaaa?
Kyu in dino khud se rehti hun main
khaffa khaffa...khaffa khaffa...
kyun...phoolo ke khile khile rang udd
gayeeeeee...
Shreya slipped out of the hospital
within a stupor and hailed a
taxi...cool breeze was fanning her
face as if consoling her on behalf of
Daaya and her tangled hair was
fluttering here and there without her
awareness
dhua dhua si kahani hai...tab hi akho
me bhi paani hai...galo se ye jo
guzarti hai...tere gham ki nishani
hai...mit si gayi har duyaaaaaaaa...
meri hi hai khata...meri hi hai
saza...phir bhi dil kahe ye kyu
huyaaaaaaaa?
kyu in dino khud se rehti hun main
khaffa khaffa...khaffa khaffa...