Samsāra

Once upon a time, in a village far away was a little girl, who was planning to run away in the middle of the night.

She packed her bags and secured some toys, and as nightfall descended she slipped out into the wild.

As she progressed all through the barren land, she started noticing some things from her past.

She looked up at the Mango tree and saw her little brother stand, reaching for the fruit for she wanted one, she saw him reaching out on his tippy toes, and he fell, she couldn't do anything except break his fall.

She carried him back home, even though she broke her hand, she kept crying baba in hopes he cared.

Coming to the door her baba came out, seeing his son, after four daughters, crying. He pushed her aside as he checked his precious boy from head to toe and when found him alright, he unleashed his wrath on his other poor broken child.

She felt the welts on her back hiss and cry, as her older sister applied medicine hiding from their Baba, without fault.

She felt the sudden urge to cry, and she did while screaming in her pillow in the middle of the night. She wept and screamed as to why he did not love her and treated her as trash, her elder sister, just petted her hair and said it's just our fate and to accept it somehow.

The little girl didn't want a destiny as cruel as this, and she wailed to the Gods as to why she was born and subjected to such, she cried while her elder sister looked through the glasses of understanding and her mother and other sisters looked away with no answers.

So fed up, she went on a quest, she was determined to find a father who would love her the same as others, she would find him and the

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n she would bring her sisters too, so the little girl left and walked till her feet bleed through.

She walked and came across a buffalo? It was huge and majestic with fur as dark as night. She was shocked to the core when it spoke, she asked the creature where she was and the creature looked at her with pity in its eyes.

She asked again, but it still didn't reply, it bent down and told her to hop on, she did as she was asked and babbled on about her wants and desires and her plans about finding a new father, who loved and cherished her.

The creature felt his heart break upon hearing the innocence with which the child was speaking about, it guessed and had a sense about what had occurred during the life of the poor child.

The little girl felt a chill seep into her bones, and the air became frigid as the creature moved across the land as barren as the eye could see, for the first time since she left on an adventure, she felt scared, and she clung to the creature below her in hopes that this feeling of dread would leave her alone.

The creature came to a stop and she looked up to the huge gates made of bones and metal. Looking forwards a gasp left her lips at the sight of the huge being sitting on the throne and cried as he descended the throne and came towards her.

She didn't know it yet, but he was the one she had been wanting to meet, he was going to make her happy and cherished with a loving baba in the mix.

Yam looked down at the little girl, feeling pity for the pure soul, but the rules of the universe were written down and she was set to her fate, she was naive and didn't know what she was doing, but maybe 'samsāra' would give her the life she wanted and set her free.