Chapter 5

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Part 4: A Secret Turning in us - Section B (Last)

Love helps you see into the invisible,

Recognize lovers by how they tremble,

The way of lovers is different,

The rest of this must be said in silence.

How much is a tear worth? 

I feel like her love has filled me with poetry. Her mere thought sends my heart in a journey of mystic finding. A world so beautiful, where bitter is sweet and exhaustion is love. I even wonder if this beautiful bridge was suspended in air, not to connect cities but pave a find for two lost lovers? I have come to appreciate the mysteries of life as the windings of this road shall never cease to surprise. A man who has loved is a man who has found God, does it then matter if his lover is his God? 

She breezes past me. I know it's her. The strong winds swept her hair into my face. The blood in my veins begin to warm up, and my heart finally starts beating. I was dead, then alive. Weeping, then laughing. 

My feet carry me to her. I see her back but know she's crying. Her tears cut through my heart, the warmth of blood seeping into my gut. 

I am right behind her. 

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I press my hand to my chest, 

I feel your heart beating,

This confusing joy, your doing,

this angst, your tender thorn,

Don't ask why this delights me,

When you stand to look, I turn.

He is standing behind me and I hear him speak my name, so gently, I could crumble into a thousand little pieces. The stranger that my soul has always loved, if only my heart spoke of it before it was too late. If only his heart spoke to him before it was too late. 

"Pallavi" 

I feel his hand on my shoulder. The tenderness of his touch reminds me of what I ached for all these years. I feel his soft gaze at the back of my head. 

"Raghav" 

I whisper his name, almost in a secret reverence. It is this moment his love comes to rest in me, and as he slowly turns me around, I close my eyes. I feel his pain and ecstasy, even with my eyes closed. 

The warm, but shaky touch of his hand on my cheek and I lean into this warmth, my safe haven. 

"Open your eyes, please" he pleads.

All our lives we've looked into each other's faces,

That was the case today too,

How do we keep our love a secret? 

How can this great love be inside us?

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The sky is rumbling, threatening to unleash all its fury yet it seems like there is a blessing in nature's doing, for it has brought us back to the day we left each other after unleashing a deadly fury on the one person we both secretly loved. 

"I am sorry" 

I see him in all his earnest, like a man who has found a new purpose in life. Like a man who already turned a new leaf in his life.

A secret turning in us makes the universe turn,

Head unaware of feet, and feet head. 

Neither cares,

They keep turning.

Arms around each other,

He is hers,

She, his, 

There is nothing else left to be,

This love is the joy of existence.

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"We talk from brow to brow and listen with our eyes, this great love inside us undoes all the pain and the grief. The soul does not reason with love and love does not reason with any myth of this world. When lovers gaze into each others eyes, the world stops moving and the skies, with open arms, welcome them in its embrace, the rain washing away all the pain"

The end

Hey everyone. This brings to a close this short story I have held very dear to my heart. Do drop in your comments if you like it (or don't).