My Escape Valve To The World Of Mermaid

As usual the day ended with a sad note. I was mocked, taunted and flared at things I didn't do. At the time of dismay and tear the only things that turn up as the sleep calls me to rest were, my sweet stuffed dolls, (teddy bear and candy doll), my personal diary or my age old comic books. I was in no good mood to gossip about my enemies to my pen friend or patient listeners (dolls), so I choose the comic books. The one that I reached first was the 'Little Mermaid'. It is a 100 pages comic book with big bright letter and colorful pictures. I must have read the same stories more than few thousand times from my childhood, but the stories fantasied me all new. So, I crept into the imaginary world of fantasy to escape from the hard core realties of pain and distress....

As I swam through the corrals down the ocean a banner in big letters read, "The World Of Mermaid- Enter To Experience The Bliss Of Life". For a person whose partner at the time of bed was bitter tears could do anything to acquire a moments pleasure to own the crowned smile. I didn't hesitate and just swam with a swift twirl. As the colorful bubbles swiped here and there my body went through a swift change... I was moulded into a beautiful mermaid. At that moment I thought "I must be dreaming, how can this be..." but I didn't want to open the closed dark lids due to the encounter of same old fear.

I smiled at the passing shoal of colorful fish. They were tiny and tender just like a green moss on the river side. They greeted back with soft kisses on the face. The tear that a was still fresh at the corner of the eye was swallowed by them. I felt a heavy burden on my back just rolled by. I was free. Far from the family of these tiny fishes, I saw great light pouring its love towards me. I swam towards it. It was called the 'land of pearls'.

Everything the chair, the bed, the flower...etc were made of soft white pearls. With the abundant pearl on the ground I made a crown, a necklace, finger ring.. and all the accessories to just look more beautiful than the comic mermaid. I even beaded my curly brown hair with them. Seeing me get dressed a complete assembly of star fish, jelly fish, crabs, lobsters, shrimps and many more stood in awe around me.

I took a large conch beside, and played a soft music to which they joined hands together and swayed responding to the sad story with a loving heart. We played all together with great gusto. We were friends in no time. I knew all their names and all their stories. They promised to build an army against the people who ill treated me for no cause. I was happy to find such true friends. When I thought everything was set right I heard a huge explosion, a great fire broke out that killed everybody. My dream scattered into infinite pieces. I woke with a large scream, to find an unchanged world.

How I wish I never opened my eyes. Fearing the odds of life I was escaping to the world of imagination. The escape of bliss was just for few minutes. I had to return to the hard core fact of life. I had to face it. But can my tender hands ever feel that warmth of love in reality again. Will I ever get out of the hatred web? Will I ever sleep with a curved smile? Will I ever...?