02-12-2019, 08:00 PM
The sequel - Pink Jasmine
Two years and a few months after Prabu left the town without informing anyone after marrying his Maternal Uncle's daughter.
"Ma'am buy some flowers ma'am, I have jasmine, sweet fragrant Pink jasmine."
Meera turned and looked at the woman selling flowers as she called out to her. What got her attention was the woman saying, 'fragrant pink jasmine.' For awhile Meera stood mesmerized watching the bunch of pink jasmine flowers in the flower sellers basket. The sight of the flowers brought back old memories flooding back to her mind. Even after so long the memories had not faded.
Her husband had gone to park the car. This being Friday they had come on their usual visit to the town's Shiva temple. This was where she had been first introduced to Prabu by her husband. At that time she never imagined that he would cause so much of turmoil in her life before leaving. She is still feeling the effect caused by Prabu.
She only came to her senses when her daughter asked her, "Why ma are you staring at the basket like that?"
On seeing her husband looking at that and walking towards them after parking the car she hurriedly said," No, just give me the normal jasmine."
Her husband arrived just in time as she was adorning the flowers in her hair. Saravanan paid the flower seller the money for the flowers.
"Come let's get inside," Saravanan said as his family went inside the temple.
"Please god, give our family the old full happiness, give my wife peace of mind," he sincerely prayed.
The temple priest came and gave them prasaad and asked, "how are you sir."
"I'm okay, thanks to the grace of god," replied Saravanan.
The priest said, "You come here with your family every Friday without fail. God would heed your prayers, everything will happen as you wish."
Has everything really happened as I wished," Saravanan thought to himself sardonically. He sat as usual in the temple hall leaning against a pillar. Even today, Meera without realizing it had been staring at the pink jasmine flowers in the basket, he thought. Probably it would have reminded her of the ecstatic time she had with Prabu, he guessed. It was for the same precise reason that the sight of the pink jasmine flowers brought a feeling of hate in him. It's only because she saw me coming that she bought ordinary jasmine flowers, he surmised.
Meera was having an eye on her playing children but even then it didn't seem that her whole attention was on them. She seemed to be lost in some private thoughts. This was nothing new for Saravanan who had noticed that. Even though she made a huge effort to forget everything, the old memories kept coming back to her every now and then causing her heartache. Saravanan had noticed this too.
"How did I wrongly think that just with Prabu's departure everything would return to the old sate of affairs," this question that often arose in his mind came again once more.
Saravanan thought, the events that happened then had affected both of them very much. It had caused one type of wound in his heart (pain) and another type in her (longing). Both were in distress not knowing how to cope with it. There is a saying in Tamil that the wound caused by fire may heal but that caused by a persons tongue (harsh words) can never heal. However for Saravanan it was in addition, hurtful scenes seen can also never fully heal.
Even though the thoughts could not be fully banished he was able to put those thoughts to one side but Meera would sometimes look forlorn and lost. Looking at her still yearning for her old lover brought back those painful thoughts and scenes back to his mind. Not only that, seeing that she is not in peace also causes him heartache. That Prabu in the short while he was here was able to cause such deep effect in her that he could not in so many years of married life also hurt him badly.
He understood that the immense feeling that had arisen between them when their two bodies had united in pleasure would not disappear immediately. However, even now after more than a couple of years knowing those feelings still existed within her caused him sorrow. For her reaction time to time Saravanan was able to guess when thoughts of Prabu disturbed Meera.
When thoughts of her lover comes to her, so does feelings of guilt. To assuage her guilty feeling she would take extra loving care of Saravanan at that time, but for Saravanan, guessing this to be the reason, it gave him no happiness. It's because it's a clear indication that thoughts of her old lover was still strong in her mind. Saravanan also realised that Meera was making a valiant effort to forget Prabu but it still was beyond her till now.
Just because of this it did not mean she neglected her children or her husband in anyway. She continued to take care of them well in all ways that she could but this was slowly causing a feeling of inferiority within Saravanan. He also for his part did not let her suffer in loneliness nor did he show any type of anger or animosity keeping in mind what she had done. She was still yearning for something. He started thinking that he was incapable of giving her the type of pleasure Prabu had given her. This had slowly caused the feeling of inferiority creep into him.
Meera was lost in her thoughts. The children as usual after the prayers were running here and there, playing. She half kept an eye on them. Even though they were right in front of her sight, her thoughts were elsewhere. For whatever reason thoughts of Prabu today was more than usual. Even though she thought that she must try to forget him, that she escaped from the danger to her married life, her memories of Prabu refused to go away.
As she looked at her children playing she thought, It's so difficult to forget him because the relationship we had was so special. He had exercised full ownership over my body which only my husband was supposed to do. In fact to tell the truth he had taken more liberties with my body than my husband. Not only did he take it but I had willingly given it to him wholeheartedly. The emotional and physical excitement I had at that time made me lose full control of myself.
Two years and a few months after Prabu left the town without informing anyone after marrying his Maternal Uncle's daughter.
"Ma'am buy some flowers ma'am, I have jasmine, sweet fragrant Pink jasmine."
Meera turned and looked at the woman selling flowers as she called out to her. What got her attention was the woman saying, 'fragrant pink jasmine.' For awhile Meera stood mesmerized watching the bunch of pink jasmine flowers in the flower sellers basket. The sight of the flowers brought back old memories flooding back to her mind. Even after so long the memories had not faded.
Her husband had gone to park the car. This being Friday they had come on their usual visit to the town's Shiva temple. This was where she had been first introduced to Prabu by her husband. At that time she never imagined that he would cause so much of turmoil in her life before leaving. She is still feeling the effect caused by Prabu.
She only came to her senses when her daughter asked her, "Why ma are you staring at the basket like that?"
On seeing her husband looking at that and walking towards them after parking the car she hurriedly said," No, just give me the normal jasmine."
Her husband arrived just in time as she was adorning the flowers in her hair. Saravanan paid the flower seller the money for the flowers.
"Come let's get inside," Saravanan said as his family went inside the temple.
"Please god, give our family the old full happiness, give my wife peace of mind," he sincerely prayed.
The temple priest came and gave them prasaad and asked, "how are you sir."
"I'm okay, thanks to the grace of god," replied Saravanan.
The priest said, "You come here with your family every Friday without fail. God would heed your prayers, everything will happen as you wish."
Has everything really happened as I wished," Saravanan thought to himself sardonically. He sat as usual in the temple hall leaning against a pillar. Even today, Meera without realizing it had been staring at the pink jasmine flowers in the basket, he thought. Probably it would have reminded her of the ecstatic time she had with Prabu, he guessed. It was for the same precise reason that the sight of the pink jasmine flowers brought a feeling of hate in him. It's only because she saw me coming that she bought ordinary jasmine flowers, he surmised.
Meera was having an eye on her playing children but even then it didn't seem that her whole attention was on them. She seemed to be lost in some private thoughts. This was nothing new for Saravanan who had noticed that. Even though she made a huge effort to forget everything, the old memories kept coming back to her every now and then causing her heartache. Saravanan had noticed this too.
"How did I wrongly think that just with Prabu's departure everything would return to the old sate of affairs," this question that often arose in his mind came again once more.
Saravanan thought, the events that happened then had affected both of them very much. It had caused one type of wound in his heart (pain) and another type in her (longing). Both were in distress not knowing how to cope with it. There is a saying in Tamil that the wound caused by fire may heal but that caused by a persons tongue (harsh words) can never heal. However for Saravanan it was in addition, hurtful scenes seen can also never fully heal.
Even though the thoughts could not be fully banished he was able to put those thoughts to one side but Meera would sometimes look forlorn and lost. Looking at her still yearning for her old lover brought back those painful thoughts and scenes back to his mind. Not only that, seeing that she is not in peace also causes him heartache. That Prabu in the short while he was here was able to cause such deep effect in her that he could not in so many years of married life also hurt him badly.
He understood that the immense feeling that had arisen between them when their two bodies had united in pleasure would not disappear immediately. However, even now after more than a couple of years knowing those feelings still existed within her caused him sorrow. For her reaction time to time Saravanan was able to guess when thoughts of Prabu disturbed Meera.
When thoughts of her lover comes to her, so does feelings of guilt. To assuage her guilty feeling she would take extra loving care of Saravanan at that time, but for Saravanan, guessing this to be the reason, it gave him no happiness. It's because it's a clear indication that thoughts of her old lover was still strong in her mind. Saravanan also realised that Meera was making a valiant effort to forget Prabu but it still was beyond her till now.
Just because of this it did not mean she neglected her children or her husband in anyway. She continued to take care of them well in all ways that she could but this was slowly causing a feeling of inferiority within Saravanan. He also for his part did not let her suffer in loneliness nor did he show any type of anger or animosity keeping in mind what she had done. She was still yearning for something. He started thinking that he was incapable of giving her the type of pleasure Prabu had given her. This had slowly caused the feeling of inferiority creep into him.
Meera was lost in her thoughts. The children as usual after the prayers were running here and there, playing. She half kept an eye on them. Even though they were right in front of her sight, her thoughts were elsewhere. For whatever reason thoughts of Prabu today was more than usual. Even though she thought that she must try to forget him, that she escaped from the danger to her married life, her memories of Prabu refused to go away.
As she looked at her children playing she thought, It's so difficult to forget him because the relationship we had was so special. He had exercised full ownership over my body which only my husband was supposed to do. In fact to tell the truth he had taken more liberties with my body than my husband. Not only did he take it but I had willingly given it to him wholeheartedly. The emotional and physical excitement I had at that time made me lose full control of myself.
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