a hero falls.
your world stopped the moment the doc said sorry blink once, blink twice, wait, what did he say? the motionless face that stares at the heavens, eyes shut is the one that brought you up when you were down… you’re reeling back in horror, what the fuck is this reality? what is going on? why isn’t he breathing at all? “daddy wake up, please! you promised you’d take me to Singapore when this pandemic got over,” you whisper brokenly a sinking feeling tells you he’s broken it as he’s breaking you now.. your mother, who taught you to be a quiet little child, is now screaming — the pain’s a foreign language. how does one begin to describe the wordless terror of keeping your face bereft of sindoor, wearing white sarees, no one to wipe these endless tears? how does one cease to exist? how can one be breathing joy one moment and then be forever stolen by the stars? how does “he is a good man” turn into “he was ”? how co...
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