VISIONS OF EMOTIONS

IFY ARINZE

She stood there gazing, staring intently into space looking so focused at nothing in particular though for some little moments maybe split of seconds and minutes but it all seemed like ages.

We were watching out from a close distance. Next it exploded either inside here heart or here head, maybe both. It was like thunder. The strike showed in her face, as if storm would follow, her eyeballs clouded, then the first drop, followed by another and another, first in drips, then it rained. It flowed, tracing two lines on her fat cheeks, one dripping down her chest and the other joining the side of her lips. She raised her fingers in between her lips as if to bite them, shaking in the deepest of anguish as she let the hurt flow endlessly in form of hot tears.

We were still watching when like the light to darkness he appeared.

“Who could it be? Maybe the one that caused her the pain,” someone opined.

But wait….he moved slowly, approaching her from behind, he placed an arm on her shoulder and turned her round to face him. Before we could say a word he lowered his head to her cried out face and kissed her gently. Yes he did, kept kissing her definitely licking some of the tears that cascaded down the sides of her lips and we kept watching as the they broke off the lipsy thing. He circled her in his massive arms, the way she relaxed in there showed she was getting comfort. When they eventually disentangled, he held her face in his hands, they both looked into each other’s emotions laughing passionately. He bent to her ears and whispered briefly, we couldnt hear what it was for it was only a whisper. But whatever it was he said to her must be sweet and soothing for it brightened her face. She kept a big smile as he walked away just the same way he came in.

As she bent to pick up her scarf one of us coughed loudly, it made her turn to notice us for the first time. Disappointment and surprise showed so vivid on her face. But whatever she was feeling she could not have stopped us from watching.