It was a chilly winter night , she lacked a home , distressed she left the four walled cage ,

Down the dark, silent streets she walked ,

The straight seven miles had started hurting her hamstrings and cooling her calves ,

She leant her torso to a street lamp and glanced around ,

She found a girl sitting alone on the brick pavement with her countenance concealed by the heels of her hand ,

Tia - went near the girl dressed in a pretty pink polka dotted dress ,

Dejected Tia conversed with the little lass and walked along the void street with her till they reached a catholic church ,

The girl stopped walked few steps towards the church,

Tia followed !!

The enormous analogue hands on the church showed 4AM ,

The girl grasped Tia's hands with her feeble fingers and in broken sentences looking down at the black pitched road - " exactly at 1 AM - I died here !"

Tia's pupils constricted, a cold current ran down her spine ,

Before her lips could part to say a word ,
The lassie added - "BUT ---but I want to live more"

Tia returned home at the dawn !!

She was her perhaps not ,

Who knows !!

© tuli