Divided we Fell_From the Past._Colors in church_The boy who cannot return
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Divided we Fell
I feel like Lot fleeing the city of Sodom. The big difference is I didn’t turn into a pillar of salt when I turned back to view the city. The fires can be seen for miles and we are only about 50 miles away, but it seems more like a thousand.******************************************************** Our state was fortunate, we had a 12 hour warning, but the states on the coasts didn’t. Maine to Florida fell right away, they were the first targets. Within hours they hit the west coast. We’ve heard nothing from Hawaii and Alaska, so we don’t know how they’ve fared. Now they are moving inland, in a...
From the Past.
Lacey was about nine or ten when Joy, her Mum, asked her to go fetch her gold watch, while she and Robert, her Dad, were getting ready to go out. Lacey ran to fetch it, knowing this was a special sort of night out, as Mum and Dad never had dressed so grandly for ages. She gently slid the chest forward from the top of the cabinet, and let it drift down to sit on the edge of Mum’s bed. Lifting the arched wooden lid, there was the upper tray full of earrings and brooches.She’d once sneaked a flick through what was under the tray, and knew Grandad’s medals were there, with folded up papers. Now sh...
Colors in church
Your little brother never tells you but he loves you soYou said your mother only smiled on her tv showYou're only happy when your sorry head is filled with dopeI hope you make it to the day you're twenty-eight years oldI’m sitting here at the church you went to every Sunday. I have never believed in God but you did. You clung to that belief like it was the only piece of solid land in an unending ocean. I admire you for that. No matter what, you stuck with what you started. If only you could have had that commitment to life. Your mother hasn’t stopped crying since she stepped foot in the church...
The boy who cannot return
THE BOY WHO CANNOT RETURNToday morning I received the invitation. It was beautiful. In the background of roses and jasmines, it contained an invitation to the ex-students www.onedoor.ccof class VII of the Infant Jesus High school, Bangalore. It depicted the photographs of 28 young boys and girls brimming with innocence and happiness. The photographed encircled in the borders of the invitation. The Head Master and the faculty who Has never seen us have taken pains to collect the addresses of the students of the 1990 batch and Invited us for a get together assuring us that they all wil...