The Cage Of Love

Everything stopped, people were stood like statues all around me, people in cars, men on bicycles, babies in prams all lifeless, frozen in time. I can hear only his voice being echoed in here, the air turned black all around me, I seemed icy fingers gripped my arms in the darkness….

" Because you made a choice and I am not, nor will I ever be, part of the life you chose".

I couldn't believe a word, he told me anymore and why had he brought me here? I left the place bare feet...

Cold and wet, tired and exhausted I made my way along the path through the forest.

Everything stopped everything a statue all around me. Frozen in time…..I went deep into the forest following the footsteps of luck.

The date was 13th July, my 34th birthday... it would be my last...

I walked along peeking through the window of nature, my surprise turned to horror, 

I don't remember how I have come here, how many miles I have crossed to reach here, I just know….

I am standing before a graveyard. Wandering through the graveyard it felt like something was watching me. I switched on my phone, the phone lights are flickering as there is a 1% charge left. I had never seen a ghost. But as they say, there is a first time for everything.

A shrill cry echoed in the mist….

A scream scattered along the rows of the graveyard...

You're locked up in a cage, .....

get yourself free... 

Closer and closer it came, it was getting bigger and bigger, soon it filled the sky above, was the moon falling?

No..ah….it was a broad light coming and it stood before me, It repeats…..

I hadn’t thought about you, I haven’t talked to you and I haven’t missed you as I used to for several months, days and weeks. Everyone says time gives us perspectives. Time alone possesses itself the power to help us move on, to heal our wounds and heartaches, to turn our back on, and reminds us what must be forgotten, has to be forgotten. But today is your special day. After some time I realized it was my inner soul to whom I am talking too, I began to remember what I have left behind me, 

 It all came back as if it has etched in my memory like an undying souvenir.

Today is your birthday, it replied again….I stood up, I was enough guilty of my stupid act. Icy winds raced down spines when thinking of the death lurking on my door. Before vanishing it again screamed out,

You're in a cage,...

Get yourself free...

free ...free....free...

I somehow controlled my horrific audiovisual emotions and stepped out of the graveyard and started running. I can hear my own heart beating sounds rapidly after reaching home. My footsteps slowly trembled on the staircase. I went to my room, I opened my diary….I started writing a novel suddenly ......,

"My Autobiography....."

 "It wasn't the outcome of my fear of death but I realized that what I realized standing over there should be penned down, I want to write down my thoughts after reviving from my worst breakup. I wrote, 

Dear me ..."I wanted to say that, I realized, being in a relationship that is not meant for us sometimes feels like a cage. It sometimes attacks hard and left a scar on our mind forever....." I put the pen down, and opened my chat list on my phone,...

Ohh !!!! …. I forgot, I connected the charger to my phone, and then type in a goodbye message……..

I loved the boy who had a kind heart, who used to respect my feelings, who wanted us to become cozy on couches and shovel down Chinese and continental cuisines every weekend, who don't get tired of talking throughout the night, who once proposed to me to become life long partner. Sadly and certainly, that boy had changed, you are not the same anymore. And I have struggled a lot to breathe in this relationship. Our relationship has become a cage for me. So, I have decided to move out of your life. Goodbye, my love.

I put down my phone and switch on the charger. I went towards my balcony, I opened up my arms and inhale the fresh air inside, I set my boundaries free to fly like birds in the sky.

P.S: A cage can't keep birds always inside it ….