Crossroad Page #3

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I saw it, sister.

Not three days;

sometimes we might

need three decades.

Go to sleep.

'What will I name this forest?'

'What will I name the

friends in this forest?'

'I will name this

forest after me'

Madam is someone who

always used to smile.

What happened to her, Sir?

We failed this time as well.

These birds are like that, Sir.

When they are ready to fledge,

they would push away the mother bird who

built a nest, laid eggs & incubated them.

And they would be somewhere today,

and tomorrow, they would be

somewhere else, miles away.

I also like the forest.

But this fascination

towards birds...

One person needn't know

everything, right?

That's also true.

The main item is here.

You can leave.

I will serve it.

The meat is deep-fried.

You wouldn't have eaten such A-class

meat ever in your life, Sir.

You will know when you eat it.

Those who ate it last week,

asked me what meat this was.

But I didn't tell them anything.

Have it, Sir.

Your good fortune!

We got one yesterday.

I wonder when I would get

another one like this next.

Its wings are a sight in itself.

Like a rainbow.

Its taste is just like

how colourful it is.

Have it and see.

'Silence'

It's a punishment!

God's wrath!

Dad sent you to the seminary

to become a priest, right?

You escaped from there,

according to your wish!

And your mother lost her

life the very next day!

And now, the next person has fallen sick.

Well, when you had a daughter,

didn't all of you make an offering

that you would make her a nun?

And then?

Since she is your only daughter,

you didn't do that also.

You don't have to think

any further, Thomachan.

If Mariyamma has to

get up from her bed,

you should send your

daughter to the convent.

What do you say, Thresya?

I have the same

opinion as yours.

Sally,

why did you leave

without waiting for me?

I have been noticing you

for the past few days.

You're showing too

much attitude.

You're reluctant to talk to me.

What happened?

Nothing.

'I'll flow through your

body like a river,

if you embrace me

like a rain of love'

'I shall be the rain

or the moonlight'

if you caress me

like a cool breeze'

Look how happy you are!

I sent it just like that.

I didn't think that

it would be printed.

It feels like I am in there

somewhere in this poem..

You are nowhere in it.

It must be your imagination.

I am leaving.

Hey! Are you leaving?

It's great!

Don't forget me when you

become a great poet.

Sally, will you come for

the choir tomorrow?

Sally,

I heard that you came.

Are you doing good, Sally?

Day after tomorrow, you are

going to become a nun, right?

Four years went by so soon.

How were you able to

change so much, Sally?

Your father was crazy!

Even though I tried to

meet you several times,

you avoided me!

Couldn't you tell

Mother Superior?

They don't force anyone to

join the convent, Jomon.

Sally,

shall I ask you something?

Shall I marry you?

Don't your remember the time when we

sang together for the Church Choir?

'The days of man

are but as grass'

'Hallelujah'

'He springs up like the

herbs that grow in fields'

Jomon,

all of us wish for

certain things.

But what happens

is something else.

Life is just a joke, man.

It will bloom like a flower today,

and wither tomorrow

- Sally dear..

Mom is calling me.

I am leaving.

- Sally!

Sally!

Why are you enduring so much?

For others' happiness,

we will have to

endure many things.

Especially when you are a woman.

Consider that this is my fate.

This is not fate.

This is superstition!

These are decisions that each

of us have to make ourselves.

And not for others"

Sally...

Sally!

Sally.

Come here,

and lie down here,

hugging your mother.

Day after tomorrow,

you are going to become a nun.

After that,

you wouldn't be able

to come here, right?

I will come, mom.

Do you hate me,

my dear?

Why, mom?

You sacrificed everything

for me, right?

Sally dear..

Sally!

In.

I have one more desire.

What is it, mom?

You..

Wear the Holy attire

once and come before me.

Let your mother see

the Bride of Christ.

Do it, dear.

Dear...

Mom!

I am leaving.

- Thomachayan!

- Our Mariyamma has left us!

- Come fast!

- Mariyam m a!

'Luminous Dame'

Badar,

Oh Lord Narayana!

Oh Lord Guruvayurappa!

Forgive me.

I will put it out soon.

I'm used to it.

That's why.

What's wrong with that?

Father, both you and

I believe in God.

And,

this ray of fire is burning and

spreading in our hearts, right?

For you to pray, this ray of light;

and for me to love,

my father;

should always be shining bright.

Not just today,

Forever!

We have to bring together several people

who have become lonely like us, father.

Ajoint family.

A place where we have so many

people who love each other.

Such a house,

Don't we also need it, father?

Putharath Moideen

Koya's daughter;

It's not because he

was a Communist;

Isolation,

Loneliness,

To escape from all that,

this is a path that

God showed me.

Your good heart.

Loneliness is like a mad dog, father.

Even though it bit me

and ripped me apart,

I spent my life, without

even being able to cry,

for one and a half years.

I had also heard

about that disaster.

I lost..

my dear children...

Not one..

Both of them!

And,

my husband too.

Don't be sad, dear.

When you address me as 'father',

there's a shade that

it provides me.

That's enough for me hereafter.

Oh Lord Krishna!

Father!

What is it, dear?

Have you slept?

-I am about to.

Why?

Unni is asking through e-mail

if you are doing good.

It's like asking a dead

person whether he is dying.

Right, dear?

Lord Guruvayurappa!

Father!

Unni had transferred 10,000 Rupees

to your bank account yesterday.

The Government hasn't

increased the fees

to cremate a person

in its budget, right?

Then why is he sending it?

It's because you are

over thinking, father.

Over thinking?

Even when he crossed the seas for a

job when he was 21 years old;

I was alone here.

Because of my desire to watch

my only son's life in front of me,

I have begged him.

Just to come and meet

me once.

Do you know how many

years have passed?

And now, he is sending money.

Father, you go to sleep.

Do you know, dear?

Me and my Maathu waited to be

blessed with a child for 14 years.

And finally when she

gave birth to him,

I lost my Maathu.

Ask him to repay that debt!

Not with money;

but with a burning ember.

He just has to throw

that on my funeral pyre.

Let the father-son relationship

come to an end with that.

This is not for rice and sugar.

Sol don't need columns as well.

When I donated the 50 cents and

house that I had, to the school;

I lost a place to sleep as well.

All I had was this small book with

mine and Maathu's names on it.

Did you see this?

The only thing I did in my life

without wanting to do it at all.

A chequebook in which the thousands & ten

thousands that my son sends me, rests.

Money in my name,

which I don't need.

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