Faded

I took out my purse and suddenly a piece of paper fell on the ground, I took that paper in my hand and there was written a number with a message "Call me if I'm still in your memory." I was trying to recall how that paper got in my purse ......I remembered it was saturday afternoon and I was hanging out with my friend, Hana at a coffee shop , what was its name......ah...yes!" Love has no season"

The name was a bit weird and it opened only a week before with new autumnal drinks. We went for that new line of drinks that they introduced recently. I was wearing a navy blue coat with white trousers and white scarf with blue leaves printed on it. There wasn't much rush and we both were chatting casually.

Then She got a call and she told me that she had to leave and I stayed there all alone. I was drinking love potion with iced leaves while reading a book;"Love is eternal".

I looked at the corner of the room there was sitting a man with black hairs and eyes , his face was too attractive and his eyes were as deep as an ocean with shine like that of stars. I was continuously starring at him without even blinking my eyes and there came a moment when our eyes met and then I again stared reading. He came to my table and asked"If you don't mind may I have the pleasure to spend a little time with you? " I didn't knew what to say and I nodded. He sat in front of me and he smiled and said" what's your good name?" I told him that my name is Hia and I asked him his and he told his name is Ryan. We chatted a lot that day. We had of discussion on life, love and all that is necessary to live

According to him love is all that matters in life and I wasn't much agreed because I was already a bird with broken wings , a body with broken soul and a girl with broken heart. He tried to convince me but everytime I end up convincing him.

He told me a story that day and my entire perspective was changed.

He begin......."once there lived a girl who was all alone in a big palace , where were her parents nobody knewed, where were her friends nobody could tell......all that was well known was that she was all alone . Some said that she was an eternal beauty and nobody could tell in words about how beautiful she was. Then one day a boy came there and he had a lot of friends and he was favourite of all. He accidentally went into that palace where that girl lived. He when saw the girl for the first time his eyes were only fixed upon her and she was also starring at him. He asked,"what's your name?" The girl looked at him and said" Ella and you?" The boy replied "I'm Kit . Will you play with me? " the girl paused for a moment and said" get out of my house." And she ran inside. The boy was very upset and he went back . The next day he went back again and he gave her a bouquet of lilies and said"I love you." The girl was astonished and asked "why do you love a girl like me?" The boy said" I love you no matter how you are and how you act because love is blind and it just happens." The girl got too much carried away by his answer and they lived happily ever after.........". The magic of love is like this.....it never judges you or measures you it just accept you the way you are.

He made me agreed to his point of view and I was really convinced .

Without fighting and arguing he made me understand the power of love and how its important in one's life to love and be loved. But before I could thank him he was lost in between the walls and I saw his face fading.............into the blues.

I was reading that love sonnet by Pablo Neruda........

"I do not love you as if you were the salt-rose, topaz

Or arrow of carnations that propagate fire

I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,

In secret, in between the shadow and the soul

I love you like the plant that doesn't bloom but carries 

Within itself, hidden,the light of those flowers

Thanks to your love,lives darkly in my body.....

A certain solid fragrance that has risen from the earth. 

I love you without knowing how or when or from where

I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride,

In which there's no you nor I ,

So close that your hand upon my chest is mine.....

So close that your hand upon my chest is mine....

So close that your eyes close as I dream......"

It was a poem that was far beyond words..........which make me understood that we people are merely a collection of atoms that come together for a moment and then fall apart.

As I emerged out of that day's memories I dialled that number and a person said," love is something that can be shaped into poem but it will never fade away. I'll wait for you. "

I went running to the place I was told and found him standing right in front of me with a bouquet of lilies and as I moved forward step by step my heart was beating so fast as if it was about to pop out of my body......he smiled and said"I love you." I was too surprised but happy and I asked why he said...."because love is blind. "

We both were happy to be with each other.......I was never so much happy before. It was like a dream fairy tale that came true out of nowhere but all was true! Love was really faded in the air ......in between us and in between two hearts.......that will be in unison.