Love Beyond Death (standard:other, 1339 words)
Author: Nadeem Akhtar	Added: Sep 18 2001	Views/Reads: 3140/1968	Story vote: 0.00 (0 votes)
A story of an innocent love just at the threshold of death. She is left all alone after being shot by her husband but it had strange consequences.

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life and death, her distrust and hatred to the world, her past life and 
present agony, just everything. He used to listen to her keenly and his 
great interest in all her narrations was the kind of reward she was 
looking for. Though he was too young to understand all her feelings and 
thoughts, yet his sincerity and intensity of involvement in her made 
her satisfied and contented. Communication does not always take place 
at the level of language or ideas. It often occurs implicitly as it 
happened with them. They had become the soul mates to each other. In 
the meanwhile, her condition kept on deteriorating and she was left 
only an alive statue with a little movement in her lips. She had 
developed bedsores, which usually end only in dust. She faced her 
approaching death very bravely and when she felt that the final debacle 
is not far away, she asked him to make a commitment of not to weep on 
her death. 

His already aggrieved heart burst out through tears and he moaned, " No,
I'll not promise for something which I am sure I cannot keep. It's not 
in my control so please don't ask that." A faded smile spread on her 
face and forgetting all her pains of death, she uttered affectionately, 
" My dear, don't be fool. If you want to be with me, then don't weep at 
all and if you don't love me anymore and want to get rid of me then 
I'll not stop you from weeping. True love is always as silent as deep 
seas so my dear, please remain silent on my death to prove your truth 
of love. I assure you that true lovers never stay apart and we are true 
lovers". He nodded his head and made a promise while wiping his tears, 
never to weep again. 

She died that night an easeful death without much ado and difficulty.
Her dead body was taken to her village where she was handed over to 
mother earth. He remained silent during all these ceremonies and his 
silence was surprising for all, particularly for his family. They 
somehow, welcomed it as a pleasant change. On third day of her death, 
he came back to his home. No body heard him speak as he did not talk 
anything to anybody and went straight to his room. Soon the resonance 
of snoring became audible outside as he was much tired and was sleeping 
soundly. 

The next morning, he did not wake up. Doctor told them that he suffered
brain hemorrhage during his sleep. Their regret knew no bounds when he 
clarified them that such cases usually take place due to some unwept 
emotional distress. She had rightly asked him not to weep at all in 
order to be with her. 


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