Monday, October 12, 2015

An Ephemeral Encounter

The pen was rolling over one piece of blank paper hesitantly without knowing what to imprint on it. Slowly, but comprehensibly, the ideas began to abound on his head and the pen started to pour ink over the blank paper mantle. Two figures began to impregnate the mind of the writer and the spot of the scenes began to produce a seaport on whatever coast.

The destines of two people in the beginnings of their awakening to life were about to be united by a circumstantial event. In the late evening of a colorful sunny season, a calmly breeze surrounded the atmosphere which was about to produce an ephemeral encounter between a man and a woman.

Only one block separated him from the opposite gender. He stopped for a moment and turned back to stare at the sinking sun over the horizon. With that evening image of nature, he turned back again and continue his way ahead to his place of living.

Moments ahead, he slowed the stride and approached a lonely woman, caressing her hair with delicacy. He did not know now but that ephemeral encounter was going to change his life forever.

¨Hi! Are you new in town? ¨ He asked.

¨I just got here yesterday on a cruise ship, ¨ she responded serenely.

They were caught into mutual stares that revealed some kind of likenesses. Not having superfluous words to add to this moment, he expressed these words with sincerity.

¨Would you like something to eat? ¨ He declared with earnestness

¨Sure, as a matter of fact, I´m anxious to ingest something,¨ she uttered with contentment.

They both walked some meters ahead to the nearest food stand where she would recount the ordeal she had gone through at her hometown before coming this far from her home.

That spark ignited hidden and repressed feelings, which over time, during the transcurse of the night, were poured out as a stream of water falling from a huge cascade. The romance lasted the sufficient time to mark the existences of both of them for the rest of their lingering time on the face of the earth.

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