Monday, December 04, 2006

The Adorable Brat!

The Adorable Brat!

Ring..for God's sake please.
She was losing it now..patience.Finally the doorbell rang.Like a wild cat she jumped from the chair and rushed to open the door."Where is it, I cant see it!!" "I am sorry re. It is not keeping well so the guy refused to sell it to us"
Her heart was crushed. Trying hard to hold back her tears, she started walking away from the door.
All of a sudden she felt something wet on her feet. Tear drops, she thought but no. She looked down. She saw her little adorable, 10 days old Alstatian pub for the first time.That was the beginning of a beautiful relationship. The most cherished part of She's life. My life.
Sher khan..this name perfectly suited you. First time when you came and licked me, ignoring the rest, Boy wasnt I excited!

The Young and mischevious Dog:"BAD DOGGY!!Now where did you take my socks??Or is it inside your stomach!""Sheru now stop chewing my sofa leg!"I remember that day when I was sitting and cleaning my shoe rack. I was in the 7th standard.You were searching for sometime. All of a sudden your eyes fell on me and the way you just gallopped towards me, jumped on my lap and went off to sleep in a matter of seconds.

I still remember...The first time you attempted to steal the left over chicken scraps from the dustbin. Your legs got caught in the gap between the door and the bin and how you cried as if doomsday had arrived. More out of fear than pain!How all the self-proclaimed bravehearts in the family froze then and there thinking you were dead!I rushed to you, and you little brat just kept wimpering in my lap, I am sure swearing to God never to steal ever again in your life! As if! It seemed you learned from that episode and thereafter mastered the art of stealing from the garbage bin without any more mishaps!

The Scary One:I still remember the fear in my friends' faces whenever they used to ring the doorbell.Your barks, that could be heard from zillions of kilometers away, was capable of instilling fear and skepticism into the heart of all those poor thieves hatching plans to rob our house. But I always had this funny feeling that instead of robbing our house these poor bastards would in turn leave some of their personal loot behind for us! But then that's a different issue altogether.

So back to Sheru. You had been real naughty sometimes and really scared the shit out of us. You attacking my brother, my Ex boyfriend (Well now looking back at that incident, I laugh and I love you for it!) and ME! Well your attacks were not with the intention of biting of couse but to tell us not to cross our limits. You were highly successful in doing that I must admit!

My Soul:You had always been there for me.Be it simply loving the half-burnt cakes I used to make and gobbling those up when all the other HUMANS had outrightly rejected it, to being my punching back whenever I used to feel angry!
I still cant figure out how you came to know what emotions I was going through, be it happiness, sadness, anger or frustration.
Those 5 months of my life when I was down and out, heart broken and lost, you were my constant companion. I remember how I used to just let go off my emotions, cry holding you, night after night. You never once left me or shrugged me off and walked away.

You understood. You were there. You never moved your head from my lap even once.You wined when I cried.

Today I am in a similar phase.I am lost, depressed, dejected. I dont know where I am going, what future awaits me.I know I have to be strong, have to fight. I will. But I miss you, miss the comfort and love you used to provide me during my bad times.

And my mind wanders to that day when you took your last breath on the same lap you once used to jump on to sleep. I could do nothing but see you die in my arms.

I let you go.I was helpless.
I couldnt even give you a burial you deserved.
I am sorry.
That's all I can say.

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