- Scenario:
Like hamlet, I am the tragic character in a love affair gone awry. However, unlike Shakespeare’s plot, it isn’t the nocturnal hovering of a dear phantom that awakes terror in my land – Love’lyria, neither is it the shady deals of a king who should be my uncle but now graces the adulterous bed of a dear mother (Isn’t life specked with such tales?).
I am entangled in a sea of emotional trouble!
The conflict, a war that rocks two hearts so dear – the one, a princess; love scorned and heart broken, seeking vengeance and riding on the wings of public empathy. The other, a monster with a human heart and like David, not without my flaws. I battle with my Ophelia.
In our heart, a sea of trouble wells!
For who will blame her? How do you forgive a lover who murders your trust and desecrate the sacred altar of love?
‘Sacrilege! Villain! Kill him! Kill him!’ echoes the congregating audience.
Drunk with vengeance, she raises the dagger of words and dealt me several blows till only a glint of life is left. And I, holding on to what little strand is left, could only mumble,‘Forgive me’ but the thunderous chants of the audience, ‘kill him! Kill him! Kill him!’ swallowed up my faint cry.
Tired, she paused. Only this time, the audience was quiet, waiting for that moment when we would end it. She stood sapped of all pains and guilt, and I lay almost lifeless on the floor. There we stared at each other with balls of tears rolling down our heavy eyes.
Some unprecedented clouds were beginning to gather. Some kind of force, moving from us to them. My voiceless monologue, my silent soliloquy, moving like a current, amplified in the prevailing silence that has now engulfed the stage, merging with memories of a past that once was ours, a love stronger than us, a bond that defies gravity.
I felt the passion welling, heart racing, emotions burning and then the wetness. Our lips met. We became lost in a world where true love breeds forgiveness and all was quiet.
The silence was broken.
I listened and heard the surging footsteps of people moving out of the hall. The drama is over! Against all odds, we chose to be!
- Application:
Every relationship has its share of challenges and conflicts. When this happens, the most important thing isn’t about who is wrong and who is right or laying blames, rather it’s about how you are able to handle those moments such that they don’t get out of hand. The way you go out about resolving issues in a relationship that you want to last matters. Remember, when the crowd has dispersed, it will be just the two of you left. It’s always about the two of you and not what other people think. It’s about what you want.
Who says you can’t rewrite a relationship that is almost at the verge of a break? It all boils down to the choice you make – to be or not to be.
What’s it going to be? You decide!
