Love Story of Vishal....

"Abey saaley.... mar gaya kya?" I banged his door every morning at around 11 A.M. (It is still morning, isn't it?). And a faint voice from inside, "jinda hoon bey!!"

This was a routine that we followed every morning.... Our flat was never silent if both of us were awake and together, always pulling each others legs and fighting! "Tujhe kisney bhej diya saale engineering karney?" "Mere sath rehkar itna toh tamiz sikh ley bey." 

I never knew that the jolly and fun loving guy had a poet inside and so many hidden stories. "Chal aaj tujhe mein apna love story batata hoon!" he said in a serious tone one day. I couldn't control my laughter and fell of my bed laughing to make fun of his poetry.... As I knew he would do the same if I would say that to him!!

In a serious tone he said, "Ye maine apne us girlfriend k liye likha tha jo mar gayi...". Unoffended by me laughing till my last breath. My face changed the reaction as if I was caught with a Kingfisher and a cigarette in my hand by my mom! 

"Sach mein?" I asked and waited impatiently for his reply. He narrated his first serious love story to me. And it goes like this: He was madly in love with one girl and they were in relationship. They used to chat whole night and their talks never seemed to finish. With each passing day, they fell more in love with each other.

Then..... this incident happened. Their love was at its peak at that time. It had become their routine to talk over phone till morning, sacrificing their sleep, call it love or the cheap call rates at night. One similar morning, my friend Vishal received a call at around 7 AM from his girl friend. They had talked till 5:30 AM that morning and Vishal had just been able to get a sleep. His girl suddenly wanted a break up. He was startled because they had talked fine a couple of hour ago. They had no problem in their relationship, but she suddenly wanted a breakup and she had no reason, she simple wanted breakup.

Startled and little angry over her action, Vishal thought she is just being childish and she would be fine after a couple of days. But after couple of days he heard the news that she committed suicide and left no suicide note.... No one knew why she ended her life, what her real problem was, why she sacrificed her golden days to come!

At that time, he wrote this poem to her then-dead girl friend. As he was reading that poem to me, it touched my heart. For the first time in my life I was listening to a poem with a hidden story behind it. If I would read it unaware of circumstances under which it was written, the poem may not be that interesting and touching but after knowing the truth behind it, it surely touched my heart.

"Na jane kyu maine ye moti us ke liye baha diye,
Jise shok mera dil todne ka tha....
Is kadar tootkar chaha unhe humne,
Jinhe itminaan mere tootne ka tha....
Kis kadar koi apna sa lagne lagta hai,
Kis kadar koi apna sa hone lagta hai,
Ye wo kya janenge kabhi,
Jinhe to sukoon bewafayi Se milta hai....
Hum sath unke chalne ke sapne sanjote rahe,
Magar unhe to sath chuda ke jana tha....
Kyu aaye meri zindgi ko tabaah kerne tum,
Kyu muje chahat ka aayina dikhaya,
Hum jis aaiyne ke aakhs me jinhe dhoondte rahe,
Unhe toota hua kaanch acha lagta tha....
Ja hi rahe the to kamsE kam mere pyar ka mazak to na yu banate tum,
Magar uhne to pyar me rota hua koi aasik acha lagta tha....
Mere aansuo ki keemat itni bhi to sasti nhi thi,
Jo unhe aankhe bhi na naseeb huyi,
Basa liya unhe hi aapni aakho me,
Jinhe shauk aakho me aansu dekhney ka tha....."

It was hard for him to spend a couple of days, weeks or months maybe... But life goes on!! We move on!! We cannot simply sit back and live with the past. 

Now he is a happy man, happily married to a wonderful women, loving each other madly again. But the pain that resides in the heart sometime surfaces to his heart.... mostly when he takes a couple of shots or some Vijay Mallya's Kingfisher!!

About Vishal:
Vishal Tomer is a Civil Engineer who did his engineering from KITE, UPTU. (Un)Fortunately he shared the flat with us at Indrapuram where I stayed. A good friend who never knew saying "No" to anything....