One evening in thoughts...

The sun had gone down. The sea was ablaze with orange and the noise torrential. It seemed that the gushing and lashing of the waves overpowered the bright orange flames that so conveniently engulfed the vast expanse below. A battle was ongoing – fierce, determined, dark, rage seething through…and I keenly observed. Those were but my first thoughts…

A few moments passed, and a stark irony dawned upon me. This was not an attempt by the two most powerful forces to show the other down, it was but the meeting that they so eagerly anticipated each day. This was a serene meeting of two lovers who could never be together, a rendezvous that millions of passers-by failed to notice, a secret wide open to all. There was a rhythm in every moment, a beat to which they made their every move. Mesmerized I sat on the rocks, spellbound by what I saw.

It was graceful, it defied all laws of nature… silence bowed down in respect... their union was eternal where eternity lasted for but a few moments…

So how was it that I could see all this today? It was because today I was alone – all alone and lonely. The ‘I’ had been lost long enough to be forgotten. Found today, it had brought nothing but an odd silence, a feeling of emptiness that was accentuated with every such realization of love...