An old love story

The Count of Monte Cristo, by Alexandre Dumas, père

Long ago there lived a pair 

bound by the feeling of love

that made them seek a life beyond the fences of religion and gender

wound around them...

they had dreams of a life together 

but they were deemed not normal in the eyes of the hypocrite crowd

Questions and painstaking comments on how they would have kids.

on their stability, and the unavoidable shame ...

hurt them and so they decided to run away from their hypocrite country, state and people.

As they fled... they embraced each other in love... and moved from place to place

searching for shelter, job and security.

they had to rob, do menial jobs and even were chased away by people who doubted their identities

on one such chase they both hid behind a dustbin

embracing each other in fear and chanting prayers...

they were saved this time... but as they got up 

they heard a squeaking cry from amidst the rumbling waste

they looked at who or what it was ...

and they discovered a sweet baby 

that was thrown away along with the waste...

the baby reminded them of their condition

they took the baby with them and decided to rear it

they were worried as to how things would turn out to be

but alas things turned out better as they found a new purpose and meaning in life

the baby brought new meaning 

years passed.... they grew old... still facing the hypocrite crowd of different places

they moved from place to place

and i, the baby grew amidst them in love and care of their love that

transcended all the fences of gender, shame and normalcy

i loved them and they loved me too

but above all they loved them more

and soon one evening amidst the thunder and terrible storm 

i saw them embraced in love, fear and solace...

lest the thunder separate them...

at the corner of the room they lay breathing their last...

and i looked at them with tears in my eyes 

but feeling the love they felt for each other as something divine and sweet

i said Goodbye! to those true souls as they lay dead with smiling faces, embracing each other...

i realized:

at last they truly escaped the hypocrite race of this world...



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