GROUND ZERO

“Had I been able to walk with you, I would have walked”—He told her concentrating on tying the loosen shoe lace. The loaded sea breeze crossing horizontally made her shaken, so as his voice made her soul. The crowded ambient suddenly turned into a Death Valley amidst the pin drop silence between the two. Thousands of words, she used to write for him lost their path somewhere between truth and destiny. He knotted the shoelace tight enough, stood up and said, “I cannot walk the direction you are walking anymore, it is too sunny. I am tired by walking too long since last one hour and I need shadow now. ” She smiled, looked towards the endless sunny road and started walking, as she was already determined. He paused for a while; took a deep breath and started moving calmly towards the other direction of the road, shadowed by the trees. Peacefully he reached the diversion, from where he has started walking with her. He stopped, looked back and sighed. She still continued walking. The hot sun above and the firing ground below were making her nearly fainting and there was still time for both sunset and her destination.