Bidding You Good Bye - Part II

Oct 2, 2011

Sunday morning! Great day to do all your pending chores of the week and also to plan out for the coming week!

I went straight to their room. No one was there.

I should have known that Sunday is the day which they look forward. The day when they can meet their dear and near ones. They get a chance to talk to them!

I have always thought of how they can leave their parents to the care of some unknown strangers who finally turns out to be the part of their life esp in their countable days!

I still remember the day when she had held her hands in mine and bid goodbye to me.

Those wrinkled face of her's were still bright with a smile. I had always adored her silver hair. Not a speck of black hair you can find in it!

She always used to sit in that corner bench alone and away from the rest. Once, I had gone upto her and asked why she is sitting away from those and she had replied saying

" Beti..... I would like to think of those beautiful moments I had in my life - the day when he was born, his tiny fingers clutching tightly to my fingers, warmth of his smile during those deep sleeps, shaky first steps he took, first word he spoke - maa - mesmerizing enough!!"

She took a pause and continued.

" Now he is in other part of world - away from me! Still he is close to my heart!"

A tear roll down her wrinkled face - still she managed to put that sweet toothless smile of hers and said "I love you my son.... how far you are know that your maa always loved you."

She gave me the notepad she had been jotting down all the while. I read those lines of her's

Bidding You Goodbye......!

I couldn't resist in giving a hug to her! The most deserving person in the whole world at that moment, even though I am not the one she was expecting that hug from!

A decade have passed by, still I could spot that silver haired wrinkled face of her's each and every face of those eagerly waiting to meet up their dear ones!

It's hard to bid goodbye!