Nothing

   November 2015
Noida sec 18, metro station, abuzz with activity all day through. Mornings are more like in a fast forward mode. Footsteps pacing up and down, autorikshaws flocked together like honeybees in a comb, little girls selling roses , pinks, reds and yellows , running after every alternate person.
Rangoli colours on display, a whole rainbow heaped. The fluorescent ones are perhaps new arrivals. Diwali is around the corner.
Amongst all the activity, all the stories , all the colours is one corner , grey, dark, with no activity, no colour, a story unheard, unnoticed.
Wrinkled face, each line screaming out pain, deepened with time. Arms spread out.
Her eyes sans hope, perhaps run out of tears in
all these years. Only numbers have changed year after year , suffering remains a constant for her. As people pass by, hundreds and thousands of them, day and night, a few care to glance at her, a few others throw a coin or two, rest pass, just pass. Being ignored is a part of her life or perhaps that's all life is to her. Does her presence make a difference? Or so to say does she only ruin the scene with her presence? and her absence would only make it better?
There is a purpose to everything and everyone's being. Does she have a purpose?
Or is her life a "nothing"?
Is she a " nothing" as well?

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