The Hourglass of Time and Love by M

"This is a form of Fairy Tale like Kids used to love reading....! But this has a choice of dangerous ending! Be wise and Choose Carefully!" quoted the witch in the Prince's ears.

"What is it I can do with this fascinating object?" 

"It is called the Hourglass of Time and Love! The one which you need more starts to diminish the other and latter takes its place!"

"What? I... I didn't get it!"

"Choose wisely" she said and disappeared.

The whole place seems to be cursed.... Everything he saw, as soon as he entered were changing their places and were looking with eyes which can't be measured! All seemed like a dream to him. As he tried to put the object away and leave.... He began to age by the count of progressive tens, with each step. When he took a step back his age diminished by tens. He was startled at the necromancy of the place and began to wonder about the strange jinx in the place. He had to choose one and before he could do, he woke up from the dream and everything around him seemed normal.

This dream, never ever repeated, but one day... A strange spell cast attracted the Boy's charm and he has been pushed towards a situation where he saw the most wonderful girl. Before he could go and talk to her, she started running away from him. She ran and ran and brought him to a place where the boy's vision of the dream was put in a practical enactment. The boy fell in love instantly, as soon as he saw her. The allure was so nonchalant, that it attracted the boy so hard. 

The placed suddenly turned out to be a waterfall and the place the boy was standing became distant. He had to choose one of the two choices: Love or Time.....!

The girl started falling from the highest point from the waterfall. The boy had to choose at least now.

He chose, Time.....!

Then he heard a heavy devilish deride... And the girl started to fall slowly. As he stepped towards the girl, he began to age slowly. The rate at which he is approaching the girl was making him older for her. By the time he reached to hold her in his hands, he was in his ninety's and as soon as she fell in his hands, his hand broke and the girl hit the rock hard at the bottom of the lake and died immediately.

He moaned and grunted heavily with pain, not for breaking his hand but for choosing a wrong one, in the time of need. He then, took the girl and as he walked away from the place of her death, he became younger and by the time, he reached to bury her, on the grounds of the graveyard, the girl became heavier as he became too young. He saw a young girl die at the age of Six. He then realized that this situation reminded him of an incident from his childhood. The young lady was 19 when he saw her dead and it was his mom. His melancholy disturbed the chaos of the place and he killed himself.

As soon as he stabbed himself with a knife, there came an angel taking him near to the dead body, that lied beside his body. There was a pendent of Love on her neck. The angel, took it and put it on his neck hanging to a chain of care.He touched it, and as soon as his touch was felt by the pendent, he saw a vision of love. He was reminded of everything, his mother did for him, until he turned the age of 6. He then saw her die, as she was bleeding. He couldn't do it as he was too young for it. He tried to rush her to the hospital, he was out of time. He then burst into a lot of tears and shouted

"Bloody Fate! If at all I could have time, I could have saved her". The moment pierced his heart.

The dream has ended. As he woke up, he looked at himself in the mirror and he saw a young lady, whose eyes reminded of his mother's eyes, was caressing him. It was his love. The Fate gave him another choice to live for, and this was his moment. He took her and hugged her in his arms and proposed her as soon as he saw her. She giggled and said "Darling! This isn't your first time, you spoke to me like that." he hugged her and smiled.

After a few days, he saw her growing weaker and weaker, it was the moment he realized his choice again. This time, he had his Love with him, he had no time to stop the instant. He took her to the hospital and talked to her every single second, spoke how much he loved her. How little he had time to express it to her. How he lost his mother and how she reminded more of her care. How much he missed her. She then smiled and said, "I'm Sorry! I know I can't make it. I always hid something from you. I never knew you loved me so much! I have been suffering from Cancer. After I got to know the symptoms, I was in an advanced stage. I never really got time to tell you. I know how much you care for me, but it kills me to see you cry for me. Sorry Darling! Just please take care! I miss you so much honey!" she then turned her head aside, and her hand lost her grip on his hand. He realized that she was no more!

All he could listen was the stretchers wheel squealing and the lights on the ceiling fading. He was blind for a moment and as he woke his eyes, he was once again visited by the witch.

"I told you that it would be like a fairy tale and you chose it wrongly. Still I gave you another chance, but you were late again. I could do so much for you! And this is you, which I intend to make you strong!" and the witch disappeared.

The boy then realized, that the whole way of understanding the situation was different.

The witch was the God of Death! The angel that took him in her hands was her mother. The true love he intended to find was his mother as he walked away from the waterfall. And the second chance, he got was for his love, the girl who reminded him and gave him 16 years of love and attention and caring, like his mother. Hence, the God of Death gave her the boy's mother's eyes. As he lacked love, he got it, but the time was not his choice. So, her got love but no time.

Ultimately the boy realized that....

Everyone we Love will depart from our life, sometime or the other, giving us an unbearable pain piercing the 'heart' that loved them. But we ought to choose the ones worth suffering for!

Time changes - Life Perishes but Love Prevails!

With Love,

M