Salmon Sunset

Spring-time evenings throw the most magnificent colors in the sky. Like always, during my commute,
I was thinking about you and how you wouldn't be thinking about me. 
The heaviness of that emotion in my heart was slowing down its beats, while the vehicle picked up pace on the highway.

The skyline drew my attention. 
Like every other beautiful nature-moment that I find happiness in, I wished you were there witnessing this one as well, with me, on the same road that you and I once traveled together on.The tranquil show of color, for a brief moment led me to picture us holding hands together and watch the giant ball of amber, drown in the pinkish blue. Some alone moments in the day, yet again took  my train of thoughts to its most visited destination - you.

But today was painted differently. As I was soaking in the sunset, it struck me. While the realization hit me that we would never watch a sunset together,
a strong and confident voice from within spoke, audible on the noisy road. This sound emerged from the same organ that had slowed down a few moments ago. 
And it spoke to me in a decibel that definitely did not sound like it came from that weakened organ.

"It was rather perfect that I dint have you to enjoy the sunset with. The colorful canvas of the sky was all mine to devour and praise and marvel at. By myself. Had you been around, 
my ever- unconditional and blind love for you would still hold precedence over my ability to love what our Mother had to offer. I don't want my train to halt with you. You were never meant to be my destination. There was this endless pink horizon to conquer."


The sun had set on our story a few days earlier. We left the hands that you promised to hold together. Sunsets often evoked in me a tinge of sorrow in the past,
for it symbolized the cessation of something. But the sunset today was something else. 

The warmth of the pink rays had kindled a voice within me that spoke so clear, that I will never need a hand to hold to watch another sunset. I reserve my wholesome love only for the colors, the enthralling downward journey of the sun and the mesmerizing tranquil it leaves, which gave me new found strength.

Ascent on descent. Yet again. 

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