Sunday, April 12, 2009

I painted the summer

Done with rain this year, I thought of settling with summer. I felt the need to love the summer this year. Somehow, oddly! So I thought of painting this summer. A summer in three colors. Red, yellow and blue. A touch of white if you say. You like bright skies and white clouds, don’t you? But no birds fly. No rivers flow. No butterflies live. Only three colors. Red, yellow and blue.

When he came home, I covered his eyes and took him to into our room. Meant to be a surprise. I took my hands away and he finds himself in a dark room. Is this our room, he doubts? I have hung the summer paintings on the four walls of our room. And yet it’s dark. He turns from his side to side, lost like a child playing hide and seek, doing the seek job. I watch him from a corner of the room. We stood silent in that room but I thought I heard his heartbeats. He came running to me the next moment and hugged me tight. But why? I wish he knew that he had actually squeezed every bit of breath out of my body. I was breathless.

The next morning, I ask him at the breakfast table:

‘Why did you over react last evening?’


He looks busy reading the newspaper. But I saw him smile.

‘All right, if you wish not to say. I am planning to paint spring tomorrow.’


He looks at me worriedly.

The next moment I find myself breathless in his hug. What about this over reaction, I ask myself.

And then he tells me, now when I am not asking him:

‘It’s good to try new ideas. But you don’t lock away the bright summers in dark rooms.’

After a long stare into the sky through the window, he added ‘and it does rain sometimes in summer too. At least it should in yours I say!’

Perplexed. Me.

23 comments:

Sands | കരിങ്കല്ല് said...

:)

actually laughed...!! :)


(He is a wonderful person.. isn't he)

mrniiiceguy said...

i am sure the hugs were quite sweaty ... :P ... Maybe i will like the spring better ...

A Liberated Soul said...

Sands, :)

MrNiiice, its cold today. It might rain. Spring, when spring comes. Okay?

mrniiiceguy said...

Its rained cats and dogs yesterday ...

A Liberated Soul said...

MrNiiice, its a funny statement. But I get your idea. Any new post on way?

Srishti Padathiyaar said...

Loved it darshhhh !!! :)

mrniiiceguy said...

darsha ???

A Liberated Soul said...

Srishti, really? :)

MrNice, :)

Nitin said...

don't know what to write so :)

I guess I'm improving.. able to understand .. not asking much ...

A Liberated Soul said...

Nitin, you might lose interest if understand every post. :)

Nitin said...

//might lose interest

how can i .. its more than a year now...
and if it is wrt my late visit .. its only bcoz i took a short break went to India for a week ...

//‘and it does rain sometimes in summer too. At least it should in yours I say!’

is yours=years ?? if not then ??

A Liberated Soul said...

Nitin, I hope you enjoyed your trip to India. Regarding the post I have emailed you.

Nitin said...

I take back my words.. I haven't improved still lot to be learn..

:(

Ash said...

Lovely!

Rajeswari said...

The post was brilliant..and its even a treat to read the comments:)LOL!

wildflower said...

'and it does rain sometimes in summer too..'talks about hope in a weird way though
and i happen to like it

J. Alfred Prufrock said...

Red, yellow and blue - okay, violet - were the colours of my summers long ago. Krishnachura, radhachura and jarul trees all the way down the banks of the canal.

J.A.P.

A Liberated Soul said...

Nitin, I thought it was simple :(

Ash, :) thanks.

Rajeswari, haha.

Wildflower, thanks :)

JAP, you caught me. But tell me more of your summers. Please.

Sands | കരിങ്കല്ല് said...

Anybody home?

Knock knock

peter ivan said...

Highly imaginative and it remids me of the famous korean movie
"Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter...and Spring"

A Liberated Soul said...

Peter, :)

mrniiiceguy said...

hmmmmn ... i was wondering how the same person could perceive something at different times … with a difference in state of mind ...

so was the point "squeezed every bit of breath out" or say "over reacting" ?

summer to spring in a days difference ?

naaaaaah ...

A Liberated Soul said...

Niiice, what did you mean? I didnt get you :)