I Know You Are There
"Light is easy to love, Show me your darkness" - R. Queen August 14, 2020 I remember the popular quote; "Love is blind, a deaf-mute too". But I believed, love without all that, is no love. What this four-letter word had to do with my life?. On this fateful day, last year, on our 9th wedding anniversary, we lost her. Yaazhi was scorched by fire in this same house. She was 8 years old, cheerful, hyper little girl, arrived to make our life beautiful. After her demise, people suggested selling this house. But how could I erase the last memory of her? We rebuilt the house, and now she was there playing with her doll muffin, running around the house, much alive. I closed my journal after reviving her memory; one year had passed without her, yet I remained the same, a lost mother. A familiar hand touched my shoulder; it was comforting. "Move on, Seema" Dev - my boyfriend turned husband whispered behind me. 1 I checked myself in the mirror, the dark circles beneat