Sunday, September 23, 2018

Budharaja hill

On every Saturday evening, which assures me that I wouldn't have to dress up for school next day, I pick up a stick, wade through bushes and pass by spooky cemetery for a solo trek to Budharaja hill. I pick a smooth flat stone, pulling it off from the cracked boulder blown off by dynamites on previous night. I carve the name of on a bark of a fleshy stem. I stride with trepidation on hearing hissing noises from nearby bushes. The sound of my breath and cracking dry leave makes the surroundings look eerie. Thanks to quicker strides I reached to the upper most part of the hill sooner. It offered panoramic view of the half of the town. Fatak Overbridge looked like a tiny Hot Wheel track,  Modipada Panitanki resembled a small budding mushroom. I could see green patches of lands where tiny dots were taking quick singles.  I open my right fist. The little stone was still on my palm. I aimed at a distant tree which frightened a flock of piegons and they fled away in one direction.

It absorbed my depression. It dissolved with thin air.

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