Story of a Rose
I was a bud yesterday. Today the bright sunshine helped me blossom into a flower. Finally blooming into a Rose, I looked at my surroundings. It’s full of beautiful flowers, who just became my friends instantly.
I do not know how I look because my possession doesn’t consist of a mirror. My friends quote ‘You are the most beautiful here’.
Some friends said that they were jealous of me because the humans love me more for my beauty and fragrance. They love me even if they have to fight with a few thorns. They love me even after my death. My mother was taken care preciously because they anticipated my birth.
A sunflower said to me, “I always turn towards the Sun, but people always turn towards you”. I smiled. I am happy and now I wanted to feel the love of a person.
My mother fed me some water through the stem and said, “Even the people passing by always took a glance at you and said you are very beautiful. I felt so proud to give birth to you that I am always happy”.
I smiled at her, “Mother, I want to meet humans faster now. I want to see how they love me. When will I go to them?”
She smiled weakly and replied, “Soon honey, soon. When you go to them, you will be separated from me. Are you ready to leave me already?” she asked.
“I don’t know mother. I just wanted to meet humans. I am sorry,” I pleaded so she would understand my dream and not to be upset because of that. We noticed a man coming towards the garden with a scissor in his hand and mom looked at me as if she was about to cry.
“Honey, hurry up and take some starch as much as you can so that you can feed on it and stay alive longer,” she said forcing the starch towards me through the stem, “if they place you in water, remember to drink sufficient water. If you stop drinking water, it will be your last breath. Promise me to live as long as you can, okay?”
“I promise mother.”
She smiled sadly and said, “This is the fate of plants and trees. We always see the death of our children in front of our eyes. This is a curse bestowed upon us for an unknown reason.”
I was caressed by the man who came here with the scissors. Within few seconds, I was cut from my mother. As I was moving farther from my mother, I know I should cry but I was happy to meet people who will love me. I was placed among few other roses who were beautiful.
After a while, I am separated from the roses and a person started arranging me between few different types of green leaves and tiny flowers. He made me look even more beautiful by tying a ribbon around me which tickled me since the grass touched my sensitive spots.
I am handed to a man who smelled me nervously and then smiled satisfactorily. That single smile made me think ‘I am happy to be born into this world’ because I just made someone happy. The feeling in heart is indescribable but I am too happy to want to think about the words to describe my feelings.
He brought me to a place which is decorated too beautiful to imagine. There are lights all over the place giving a different kind of shine to the area which could never be given by the great Sun.
He looked at me and said, “I am counting on you to pass my feelings to her. Please make her fall in love with me.”
I don’t know what he meant but I want to try my best if it was something I could help him with. Though I want to give him a reply, I know that he cannot understand my language, so I let it go.
After a while a girl came here with a smile which widened at the sight of the decorations the man did for her. He was too nervous yet brought himself to smile for her.
I did not understand most of their conversation because he held me behind him, so she could not see me. Finally, he took me out and handed me to her, so she could hold on to me and said, “I love you”.
Her smile disappeared as it was replaced by a hint of disappointment. She shook her head too slowly as if she was trying to move a wooden head which has no life in it. She slowly brought herself to speak, “I am sorry. Please don’t spoil our friendship with this. I am really sorry.”
Looks like she was confused to express her rejection with words since it was a shock for her. So, she left without any further words. I felt sorry for her. But I felt sorry for him too. I saw how nervous he was from the time he brought me.
He even asked me to help but I don’t know what to do. If I know, I would have helped him for sure. After all, he was the man for whose love I was born into this world. I want to make him happy. I want to make him smile. I want to make him feel content. But how?
Suddenly I couldn’t see anything as everything started to be blurry in front of me. I am being crumpled with his hand as the grass surrounding me started to cover my eyes.
I was thrown by him to the ground as all my petals started separating from me. He stomped on me with so much force as I felt my last breath leaving from my body and my soul leaving from the world.
Looks like I am dead, but all I want to know is the reason why he hated me while all I did was love him unconditionally.
I am not dead when I am cut from my mother. I am dead when a human rejected and threw me.
