Mary, I love you.
I love you too, David.
David and Mary met one day when they were at a playground in town. It was a brief eye contact and since then, they have been seeing each other every day at the same spot, without fail.
Time pass by, day by day, week by week, month by month and their love for each other grew with each passing moment that they spend together. They were inseparable, they did everything together. They were having lunch together. They were having sodas together. They were reading the same books together.
Even though they were so close, neither their peers nor their parents were aware of their relationship. They were like shadows to them, not noticed and not seen. Everything went well until one day, their relationship was discovered.
With this new discovery that clouded the minds of everyone close to them, came the judgmental argument and discussions. Yes, their parents were not happy with the outcome or the discovery was more like it. It was like Romeo and Juliet, two souls that were so much in love, but disapproving parents led to their doom and separation.
As the situation heated between both Mary and David with their respective parents, the love between them grew stronger and the passion was undeniable. The tension between them and their family grew with each passing day that it began to swallow them both in despair and sorrow. The very little time that they try to get together, the chances they try to meet up, grew shallow as they were tightly guarded day by day as though they were criminals and under surveillance.
Gloomy was their theme as the days go by and one day came that they decided it was their life that they want to be in control and not be controlled. David and Mary decided that they should live life they want they want it, the way they intend to live their life.
Mary, do you want to leave with me…
Yes David, I do
Then we shall leave, start our life elsewhere. I shall work to support you… no us
With that, it was decided. They planned to leave using the train. They both scoured and ransacked everything they got to produce enough money at least to get the tickets and to support them for a while.
What… this is the end of the story…
Well this is actually a movie which I recollect from my memories which I believe I have watched many many years ago. I don’t know if it was my imagination but my mind tells me it’s not.
Mary and David did not make it… they returned to their family though unwillingly, but in the end I think or would like to believe they were given the freedom to be together. They were around the age of 10 to 12 and that is what makes it that more appealing and interesting.
The pureness of their feelings and actions caught my attention. Even adults are unable to express themselves or care so much about others this way. It is a shame that we have grown to become such insensitive and tainted souls from our childhood innocence.
Looking around, there are of coz still the good and bad. It does not mean I am condemning everyone, but it has increasingly shown that humans are running down that road, me included. I am no saint or angel. I am just human. I tread down that road too, but while traversing, I try to refrain myself from stepping further or deeper, while trying to grasp the wall on top, trying to pull myself back to the white surface walled garden where trees grow and flowers bloom.
