Saturday, 9 March 2013

wHOM did you blame ?


The son shot his father at 14, the newspaper flashed with the young boy accused as for committing the most unthinkable crime ever. The reader’s nodded with aghast some closed the paper in grimace; the people abused the thin conscious of the boy and saw him with the lowest and most disgusted stare.
“How can one kill his own father?”
Thats what everyone roared with till their hatred and anger melted away and their wife’s and children faced with the story of such a heinous act were left startled and shaken.
The very next day they all went back , the neighbors continued with their daily ruckus the children dragged themselves reluctantly to school and  the mothers saved their family a delightful meal  at the end of the day and nothing else mattered again anymore .
When the world went on again in its usual, he sat behind those bars of which the years peeled in the form of rusted bits and the miasma of the room was heavy with emptiness. There he sat alone in the cold damp room with absolutely no one in the vicinity of his closed solitude to testify his act.
Maybe reason and explanations had lost their meaning in this boy’s diary and maybe repentance was all that was left to be marked.
He had only walked in to his house with his sachet hanging carelessly on his shoulder.  That day in school his friends had mocked him all day long about his cuckold father. He was cold and did not bother about the sardonic spirits hovering all around him.
The door was ajar and he walked in expecting to see his father somewhere relaxing like everyday around the house procrastinating everything that mattered, drunk, like an uncouth but this time the boy was swept with a different emotion
Alas one could say he was totally swept of life itself.
Right in front of him  was the same four walls around which he grew up the familiarness of the place , the bed which bore the crest of the time they loved the same cloth on which once slept his parents and whispered crazy  stories to each other however this time it was different , there she giggled lying her head with matted hair spread over his chest  with only a thin sheet covering their nude forms . The room now reeked of filthy happiness, of cheated souls, of blackened romance and the last figment of smoke from the charred bits of a broken heart it was the sight of his father bedding other women and that woman was someone he hath never known.
   The boy collapsed, he stumbled over blindly over the bonds of a relation; that of a father and a son. He roared and paved his way towards the table and took upon the curse of a murderer. he closed his eyes one last time and gripped the trigger with absolute firm hands and let it go right through his father’s chest , life seemed to have escaped him forever and that was the mess he fell right into and drowned himself in it for the rest of his life .
Few moments passed, senses were uprooted forever from his life, he sat there like a still corpse with the blood of his father flooding all around him . it did not mater any longer ; the impulse was  gone , the madness was over the heart felt no need to thump in vain and guilt , what guilt when conscious had been completely drained from  his mundane,  long before when he moved to take the gun.
The world and its people will climb the easiest and simplest conclusion they find and shrivel round it  to justify whatsoever they find  but do you really think that was for the world to  judge . can a JUDGEMENT hold the weight against the love of a son towards his father or the crime he committed in its absence .

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