Figment

Figment of imagination! An atom & I’m the proton! Being a solitary proton, lonely lost in the
depth of the atom. All I could see was the nucleus & its tiny feeble fragments. The darkness
overwhelming me, all with the knowledge of assumption that there were others just like me who
could feel the same way as how I feel. I know it’s my fate, that I’m destined to constitute all
matter living & non-living. Yet! A strange hope! What is this strange feeling? An uneasiness. Is
it a light? A voice? Why can’t I see it? It feels so far. It’s out of my reach. I can a ‘spark’ far
away. There is something which keeps moving around, tracing the same trajectory again &
again for as long as I can remember. Who is that? Or should I ask – what is that thing? Alas! I
can’t move, heavy chains of time & space bind me making me helpless, leaving the depths of my
soul shattered. I resisted, tried to move in desperation; all my attempts futile making me tired.
All I could do was to sit down & watch, watch as the eternity flows right beside me like a vast
ocean, like an endless dream which has no dawn, like a space-time equation which knows no
limits. I sit there watching with a hope, that someday someone will come to see me, also knowing
the fact it’s someone who I know won’t ever come. For decades, I’ve waited & I’ll go on waiting
in this dark place till the end of time. Both electron & proton constitute the atom and everything
we see around us, let it be matter or even our cells which is the fundamental block of our body.
Destiny plays a huge role in separating both of them, as if they come closer it will be a
catastrophe, a complete disaster. As atom constitutes everything & sub-atomic particles govern
their own duties grievances & afflictions.