YOU AND ME

    Love what is it? How is it? Is it present in this world. 25 years have I lived in this world and I know not what love is. All these years have I lived alone and alone was I in this world. Neither did I have any mother or nor any father who showed me what love was. I was born an orphan and have grown up by my own till this day. Neither was I able to know what Love is and neither did anyone show me what it was.

    That day as usual I was whiling away my time at the bus stop when I saw her. I have seen many girls whizz past me all these years. Neither did they glance at me nor did I. But when I saw HER, I know not what happened to me. Just a glimpse of her !!! But, but ... She was off like a flash.

    Just a flash across my mind and I donot know what happened to me. My mind was out of my body, out of bounds, out of control. Yearning for yet another glimpse - God, only one more glimpse of her, just one ...

    Is this love..? I know not. May be it is, may be not? Love, a new feeling- a good one too. Is it true. Just one more glimpse and it may come to me.

    The boys whizzing past me was saying something about a day for love- VALENTINE'S DAY ! Young lady, I have only one thing to say to you ' BE MY VALENTINE'.


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Kerala University Youth Festival 13 Feb 2002 Alappuzha
English Short Story Writing
Third Prize Winner

Topic- ' To your sweetie on Valentines Day'

This is just the brief outline or epilogue of the story that I coined at the Youth Festival.
The original text is unfortunately gone/ lost.

                                                        Nesmel Hussain