100 words on Saturday #2
Introduced in February 2013 on Everyday Gyaan – an invitation, a prompt, a linky. Write exactly a 100 words on the prompt and publish it on your blog – a story, a poem, a mini-essay.
Today’s prompt is provided by Suzy Que whose blog Someday, Somewhere is a lovely mix of poetry, wisdom, stories and and some real golden oldies. “THE SHADOW OF YOUR SMILE”
I saw you standing under the shade of a tree and dusted the fine grains of sand off of my torn and dirty clothes, smiling in relief and joy. While rushing into your outstretched arms, I stumbled into the pool.
Maybe it’s a mirage, hadn’t I been lost in the desert for the past couple of days? Tired, hungry and thirsty, I was hallucinating.
The last thing I remember seeing before I drowned in this tranquil pool was the shadow of your smile, covering me with its shade. My soul smiled back before leaving my body.
By
Sulekha aka Lucks
OMG!! Sad! But so very beautifully written. It touched me!
Thanks Shilpa, I wrote two pages and then edited it to 100 words 🙂
2 pages to 100 is simply commendable!! 🙂
That's sad…but such a bliss to have remembered the face of your lover before the breath parts the body!! I'd like to die like that! 🙂
Love your comment, Rainbowhues 🙂 thanks
This was sad, but I felt a sense of release and happiness too with the soul smiling back. I really liked this.
Kathy http://gigglingtruckerswife.blogspot.com
Souls are very forgiving, thank you for visiting and commenting.
heart wrenching shadow of smile.
Thanks a ton, Neelam.
My soul smiled before leaving the body. so sad.
Kalpana, thanks for your comment.
Sad n Beautiful!
There is beauty in sorrow, I think 🙂 thank you.
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that was sad and beautiful…
very nicely written
Thanks Pixie, appreciate your compliment.
This is a sad one 🙁 !! Beautifully penned in less no of words
Sometimes brevity can be good, thanks.
written very nicely and deeply…I loved it!
Appreciate your lovely comment.
Beautifully written though a little sad. But so romantic too with the soul smiling back. Thanks for writing on my prompt.
Suzy, loved your prompt and enjoyed writing for it. Thank you.
Beautiful, heart wrenching, Outlier
Rimly, I know 🙂 but love and tears have a deep connection. Thanks Outlier.
Very poignant!!Parting of lovers forever with a smile!! Great thought.
Thanks Usha.
Oh to die beholding the face of a loved one is heaven, surely, Sulekha!
Heaven without him is hell 🙂 thanks Corinne.
Beautifully woven!
Thank you so much, Vinaya.