It Was a Long Waiting,

It Was a Long Waiting,

Everything Changed But The Place He Waits and His Waiting Never Changed These All Years.

I Know Him Very Well, I Have Been Seeing His Endless Waiting For This Much Years, Like All I Also Did Advice Him That The Waiting is of No Use, Perhaps She is Dead or Perhaps She Don’t Even Remember You and Your Child.

Then He Tell Me That Perhaps, But Perhaps If She is Alive?

I Have No Answer For Him.

I Remember the Day They Came to Our Place, A Women, A Man and Their Beautiful Child.

They Were So Happy, They Talked To the People of Neighbourhood Friendly, In Hours They Become One of Us,

They Said They Have A Project Here For Our Good and the Prosperity of Our Land Which is Approved By The State and They Just Come Here to Visit the Place and Know People Before Official Initialization of The Official Machinery.

They Were in a Vacation Mood, Visiting Every Spots of Our Place and Takes Photographs and Enjoying Different Foods, Playing With Children, Talking To The Families and People.

Perhaps They are Gathering Data or Perhaps They are Enjoying The Visit, Don’t Know.

We Thought They are Leaving By Night, They Too Said Nothing About Staying.

The Next Day Morning We Saw Him With His Child, Sitting Under The Big Old Banyan Tree. He Was Little Bit Disturbed.

People Asked Him Why You Sit Here?

He Said I Am Waiting For My Wife, Yesterday She Told Me That She Will Be With Me Before We Return and Left Us, Hence We Are Waiting For Her Return.  Still She Didn’t Come.

The Waiting Continues Till Now, Now He is Very Old.

Other Than Machineries and Instruments For the Project No Official People Came to Take Up The Project.

When We Ask Him About The Project of The State, He Replied Us That He Can’t Able to Do It Alone, With Out Her as She Is One of The Highest Authorities Who Should Give Approval Of Every Process of The Project.

We Understood That Nothing is Going to Happen As No One In Our Local Govt Body is Aware of This Plan of The State.

My Parents and Other People Advice Him to Get Marry With a Girl From Our Place and Be One of Us, He Always Smiled And Refused.

But Always We See A Kind of Hope In Him of Her Return.

Once I Saw Tears Coming From His Eyes,

I Asked, Why Old Man You are Crying,

He Looked At Me and Said, I Am So Sad By Seeing The Condition of Your Locality, Your Place.

See There They Started a New Brothel, Girls of My Daughter’s Age, to Whom I See Since I Came Here Under This Tree are Now Grown Up and Selling Out There Like Meat In The Market.

When I Asked to Those Children Why They are Selling Themselves, They Told That Uncle There Is No Other Option Left With Us To Help Our Old Parents and Younger Siblings.

I Asked Is This The Only Way? Then They Smiled and Said. Uncle The Society is Ready To Help Us, But When They Give Help They Are Looking Something Else In Return and They Are Not Only Looking To My Body, But To My Younger Ones Too. So It is Better I Die Little By Little For The Sake of My Family.

Saying This She Laughed and She Walked To The Crowd. I Saw A Small Drop of Tear In Her Eyes.

I Said Uncle Now The World is Changing, No Body Got Time To See This Issue, All are Busy, You Just Mind About Your Own Daughter and No One Else. You Can’t Help Them, Hence Just Ignore Such Things.

He Smiled At Me and Said I Can’t Help Them And That Is My Mistake, That is My Mistake, He Shouted With Angry.

I Turned Back and Started Walking Murmuring “He is Really Mad, Now A Day Who Cares About Such Thing, Who Got Time”.

The Old Man Clapped His Hands and Called Me. I Turned,

He Asked.

Why There is a Crowd In That House, What Happen?

I Said The Mother of That House Died Yesterday, I Think They are on Their Way for The cremation.

What Happen He Asked?

I Said, I Think She Has Been Got ill for Last Several Months, But As You Know We Don’t Have Proper Medical Facility Over Here and They Don’t Have Enough Money to Take Her to The Super Speciality Hospitals at City. So She Died,

We Small People Only Got This Much Uncle, We Lives Here Like Worms and Dies Here Like Worms, No One is There To Help Us, Not Even The God.

All Facilities are Only For Rich and The Rich Never Allow Us To Become Rich Like Them. We Are Here to Accept Their Orders and To Clean Their Dirt.

They Can Use Our Girls And Boys For Their Works And Entertainments, They Can Do Whatever With Our Lands, Our Homes, No One Will Ask Them.

And Our People They Only Want to Forget All These Issues.

For That Your State Has Given Us Plenty of Liquor Shops in Every Nook. And Every Young And Old, Girl and Boy, Including Me, Drinks Till We Loose Our Conscious.

Uncle You Always Ask Me Why I Drink? This is The Reason, I Can’t Live In This World With Conscious, I Can’t Handle My Problems So I Want to Forget. Forget Everything. I Shouted And I Walked Away.

After Two Days, I Saw Him Again, He Smiled At Me.

I Too Smiled,

I Said, Uncle We Understand That You are From A Good Place, You Should Go, Why You are Wasting Your Daughter’s Life Here, Why You are Wasting Your Life Waiting Someone Who Perhaps Will Never Come.

He Looked At Me and Said, You All Are My Own In These Years, In These Years I Saw Many of My Own Dying, I Saw Many Of My Own Sacrifice Their Life For Their Loved Ones, I Saw Youth, New Generation Of This Land Kills Each Other For Reasons Unknown To Them, I Saw Parents Thrown Out By Their Own Children, I Saw Even Parents Who Sell Their Children As Slaves And In Brothels, I Saw Infants Misused By Their Own ,

Even People Who Considers As Good is Also Taking The Opportunity To Do Evil and To Hurt The Holiness of God. The Authority Who is Responsible For Saving The Land and People of Land, is Only Worrying About Themselves.

All are Running To Grab Something,

I Know Perhaps I Could Have Able to Do Some Help For You and The Land I Live With My Daughter, You are The People Who Helped Me, Who Give Shelter to Me When I Came Here and When I Become Alone.

In These Years When I See All These Losses, I Hoped That Perhaps She Will Return And Together We Can Able to Do Things Which Ultimately Help You All, Hence Even Though I See My Own Dying I Deliberately Denied Myself Crying.

But Now It is Too Late, The Losses Are Increasing And I Can’t Able to Bear This Pain,

I Am Now Worrying About My Child,

Perhaps I Can Able To Forgive Her For Hiding This Long Years Away From Me and My Child, But With These All Losses If I Lose My Child Too Then Perhaps I Will Never Forgive Her, I Will Never Forgive Her...

He Looked Very Angry, His Face Become Red and I Saw His Eyes As Fire Balls.

I Never Seen Him In So Much Anger.

I Got Little Bit Afraid, I Said, Okay, Okay Uncle,

And When I Walk to Liquor Shop I Thought, Perhaps This is The Reason Why His Wife Abandon Him, Who Can Able to Live With Such a Mad Man? Idiot.

I Wondered How His Daughter Lives With Him,

Let Him Wait, Wait As Long As He Wish, It is His Fate;

Now  It is My Time to Forget Everything, I Opened The Cap From The Liquor Bottle...