Pearl #66 / Opal #99

Pearl #66 / Opal #99

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Winter weather of 2001 was doing justice to the season. Winds were mild, and it felt very fresh & comfortably cold due to frequent rains during the early days of the season. Yet, they were the times that felt lonely, despite having many aimless chats with friends.

Door of pearl-66 was open, but both the windows were kept shut. The rains have made the windowsills hazy. Just close to the walls stood that neem tree. Hidden from general sight by the lush green leaves of that neem tree crown, a couple of droplets rolled slowly down the clouded windowsills. None would have noticed either this…… or….the lonely crow, with its rain-drenched, leaden wings, cawing meaninglessly so out of tune, sitting idly on one of the hidden boughs of that neem tree.

These were certainly completely out of sight from the windows of opal-99, though they were open. Main door was shut tight, rarely seen open. The sight was as if it were not occupied. The northern wall of that room had become so much dampened by the seeping rainwater that the collage, which was hanging on that, had been drenched. A collage…..which seemed fresh, beautiful and lively once…….now seemed old, washed & discolored.

Sometimes those September clouds were so dark and gloomy, threatening to unleash heavy rains and thunder storms. 

it was back then....15 years ago in 2001, on that september-19th.

curiously....

….. the raindrops …….. are still rolling down the windows on every winter. and not just on winters,....every time whenever it rains.