The Blue Horizon

A couple was standing at the beach at the twilight hour. Staring deep into the horizon where the blues of the sky and the sea merged. When will their prayer be answered? Their melancholic expression seems to say. That was when the big wave crashed ashore. They ran back a few steps to avoid the wave. When the wave receded, they noticed a body left behind. He ran and checked the pulse. The doctor in him took over and he gave the child mouth to mouth resuscitation. A life was revived.

Their prayer was answered. She was named Neelam.

When Neelam grew older often she would come and stand by the beach and look askance at the waves as if to question when will you bring my mother and dad as you brought me from nowhere. The waves touched her feet each time as if to say sorry.