time might be the cruelest thing about being a mother.
how in the span of a single minute, your only son, the only heartbeat left in a world that has taken everything else, finally grows tall enough to see another world waiting. he finally realizes that the train he has watched since he was small is not just a dream passing by, that he can step inside and let it carry him away.
and all you can do is wait. again. just as you once waited for your husband in that village, now you wait for your cherished boy to come home from a different village, and the silence in between is the same. apu, come home to your old woman often, will you?
time might be the cruelest thing about being a mother.
how in the span of a single minute, your only son, the only heartbeat left in a world that has taken everything else, finally grows tall enough to see another world waiting. he finally realizes that the train he has watched since he was small is not just a dream passing by, that he can step inside and let it carry him away.
and all you can do is wait. again. just as you once waited for your husband in that village, now you wait for your cherished boy to come home from a different village, and the silence in between is the same. apu, come home to your old woman often, will you?