"I loved you since then.,
I always did.."
'Why did you not say it then!?'
"I was scared,
I was been taught
that bad girls were meant for love
And it took time to unlearn."
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'Are you sure? This might not look as easy as we staring at each other, uncompromisingly. You'd have to look from an entirely new perspective to figure out what's going inside me.'

"You have absolutely no idea on what was going through me either. I always kept wondering about you, the way you changed so amazingly.., because each time a good person changes, they tend to become a little less good. But you, you've always grown much better. I kept smiling at the years which crafted you richly enough to not just be comprised of the emotions you feel, but the courage to express them too."

'You said a lot more than I ever wished. I'm exhilarated.'

"Yes I did. Because all I did till now was swallowing my feelings and hoping them to get digested so that they don't burp."

'Isa Rebecca Samuel, I welcome you from the bridge of uncompromised longing to my Garden of Life. Trust me, I've got skies that paint galaxies after the rain and my sunflowers aren't jealous of roses!'

© Neena Baby Mundackal