Boxed-Up Memories

Very expressive!

``A life to live with a death to mourn``

Since her presence is so vivid as if she were alive, perhaps ``A life to live with a LIFE to mourn`` would have been more appropriate.

faiza:

should i say welcome back? yes, you should contribute more regularly if you can...

nice easy ride punctuated by inaudible sighs all the way...living is a cruel business and losses are sooner or later overshadowed by newer losses...and then laws of nature take over...the intensity of newer losses overwhelm and fade the earlier ones...life!

lve

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Had a quick read. You have a vivid imagination, and a way with words. True or false this story may be, it wouldn`t be easy to craft melancholia without having experienced life in its many intense flavours - happiness, sadness, and above all loss, that in my opinion lies in the heart of the picture this story paints. Nostalgia, denial, yearning to move on, all are states of emotion derived from that one, most piercing, most defining of all - the feeling of loss.

I`d agree with Farzana. It`s priceless to have writings of this kind, no less heavy than some of the topical stuff that goes around, but refreshingly different, always putting things in perspective.

Oh, you have gotta love the variety of life; hats off to you!

Dear Faiza:

There is so much poignany here that I do not feel like dissecting sentences. Or wondering whether this is true...it is palpable, `her` absence is present, `she` IS the box, not merely its contents. With the last two lines you have given the meaning of memories such depth.

Please do stay around and write more often...when we talk about a drought regarding non-political/topical writing, this is what we ought to be looking for.

Farzana

``there is melancholy in the wind`` cant seem to recall where i heard that...

Beautiful. But its heart breaking. I go with prk and hope this isnt true.

I pray that this is not a true story. That said- it is beutifully told and what days that must have been with so much charm and love!
PRK

These sentences flow poetically.