The Blessed Child

Down the campus it’s greenery all around, The birds accompany me with their chirping sound. Be it in the glowing morning or at the falling dusk, Overlooking the symphony is a defying task. Never did I see such harmony in Nature’s creation, It simply bewilders my weirdest imagination. The rippling water, the expanding tree, the small little seedy, The swaying grasses, the twittering birds all break into an eternal rhapsody, The azul sky lined by the white fluffy cloud, It simply looks serene away from the maddening crowd. When the young green leaves brush each other joyfully, It seems like it is beauty carved out beautifully. How generous Mother Nature is in her blessings towards us, But still we ignore a lady so astonishingly gorgeous!

Every time his iPhone's screen flashed her name and that personalized ringtone buzzed, he knew she is making this call by sneaking out of everyone's attention. The photo reminded him of his 24th birthday, which they had celebrated together. It was not his first birthday in which she was present, but it was his first birthday spent with her as a couple. The fact that they were seeing each other was known to all. What wasn't common knowledge, was their crazy love for each other; the two young souls were so much into each other that they could not imagine being away for a single day. He had a solution for every problem of hers. She had a smile for every frown of his. When she got to know about her promotion, she knew she had to tell him first, before she could tell her husband. Little awry of the time, it was 11 in the night in Boston, she dialed his number. Akash was still working and he knew Shruti too well to have guessed something special must have happened in her life. ...