Us and The Seven Dwarfs

Selected as Blogadda's "Spicy Saturday Pick" on May 21, 2011

In the woods under the white grey sky, I found a lane with the twist of trees it aligned

As the light followed the curve and got lost, to see the sinuous way that light had crossed

as if pulled by the paunch of the trees, I stepped onto the path

on which barefooted I walked

I still remember what my eyes then saw…….

In the hoods under the black grey tin

Stood the uncanny seven miniatures of men

I stood gasped by the baffled expressions they held

On their faces that stood three feet from the ground

After an hour of unconsciousness I saw dizzily a brown belt

It took me few moments to realize that there were 14 long feet around

I then recollected the story of 'Snow-white and the seven dwarfs'

I still remember what my eyes then saw………

I pinched myself hard as I suffered influx of mysticism

But then the dwarfs spoke and I was clawed by the prowess of reality

Soon I heard the sound of another pair of footsteps from a distance

The dwarfs then uttered in chorus, “wait…you have to sign a treaty..

because you followed the light unaware of the fact that it was following you,

As you’re the chosen one by us to make your wish come true

You carry the heart with the ability to contain pure love

You wish to be with your loved one till your last breath

But before that you need to kill now with this arrow and bow, one of us

Or get lost again till you find your loved one”

I still remember what my eyes then saw………

I sat there sweltering swallowed in my thoughts

The dwarfs were gone and I was lost

Now I had to either find my love or find one of them and plan an assassination

But first I had to resolve the ethical issue drowning me into perdition

I wasn’t able to understand the purpose of their condition

Was I cursed or blessed, I doubted their veiled benediction

My memory then placed the picture of the long trail of brown feet

I then rushed scrambling through the forest searching for their foot impressions

On the third dawn after my search had began

I realized that there were other footsteps that ran

Behind me and I still remember what my eyes then saw……

The seven dwarfs reappeared and I felt relieved for some reason

The leader looked at me and asked if I had found my loved one

I said gallantly, “I love him with the purest emotions my heart dwells,

And I would not despoil them by killing one of your dwarf men,

So I would keep searching him in these magical woods of yours

because in the real world, I know, I’ll live with him till I’m here..”

They then smiled at me and vanished in the thin air

For years I kept looking for him striving against starvation

And fighting for defending myself from myriad little creatures

Intermittently I would hear the footsteps running behind me

Hearing which I ran for my life and my love and the deal

One day in the old woods under the white grey sky

I again heard the footsteps and an anguished cry

For the first time in all those tormented years behind

I perceived those footsteps on a different line

I was always running away from that sound

that had crossed my way so many times

not once had I ever cared to turn around

my feet soon halted, for the first time I was not bound

I felt free and a sense of sweet contentment encircled me

I turned to see what my fearful misty eyes had always missed to see

And I truly remember what I then saw………..

I saw him, my love, in front of me standing straight but in a weary state

There were tears in my eyes that my aching heart had sent onto my face

As I felt his pain and understood that he too was followed and had followed the magical path

And was confronted with the same condition kept by the dwarfs

Like me he had chosen to find me

He too had endured the pain in his journey

He then walked to me and held me into his arms

And swore to never ever leave me whatever may come

Then swiftly the wind around us took the shape of the seven dwarf men

They colored the woods green and sky blue as they sang

Their hymns echoed the surroundings that whirled back

carrying us To the lane that we had followed few years back

We stood there for sometime facing the woods holding hands

We then turned and I remember what we saw…………

I truly remember, together we saw a light following the straight path

The unsullied path was softly lit and was carpeted with fresh green grass

We then walked onto it knowing this time towards what we were heading

We saw a life to be lived together in the world that was eagerly awaiting….Us..!!