The 7 Days

"7 days”, the Doctor says..

“7 Days or months or years?”, she asks as if she is expecting a different answer..

“7 days”, again tells the Doctor and left...

For a mother of two kids – just 7 and 4, who had also lost her husband a year-before.. now finding herself with a deadly brain tumor , is most agonizing..!

It was excruciating physically.. She had an option of spending the rest of her days, under bed rest.

But… the deepest wish of fulfilling her role of a mother - guiding her 2 kids throughout their future lives, occupied her mind deeply….

The brave lady of 35 wished to be proactive..!

She invited her best friend, home. With no clue about their mother's terminal illness, the two cutest kids were so delighted about Auntie Linda's visit..

 “Linda, dear, my breaths are counting. I wish to leave my messages to my dearest kids or else I regret.. I need hands to write, since mine has gone dead!”, she requested Linda..  Linda cried and nodded.

With ‘writer' Linda around the corner, the terminally ill lady started to transcend time zones..!

‘Family, Passion, Partner, Kids..'..  She covered all the aspects of her kids' future ..!

“Sleeping Pills?”, offered Linda, suddenly seeing her friend screaming in pain..!

“What’s there a perfect pill than my lovely kids?!”, told she, refusing pills and pillow ..!

Day 1 and 2 passed…

Linda took her friend, her kids and the diary to the Garden.

The mother of two, smiled & cried in joy, overwhelmingly, to watch her two kids playing ..!!

“Our Mom and Auntie are writing a story, it seems!!”, smiled the two little hearts, looking from a distant ..

Nothing did they know that those were the stories of their own futures..!

Day 3 and 4 had passed. She had lost all her energy to speak more than a whisper..

Clearly, it was all about a battle between her kids and her disease. But her kids have always won the battle!

She decided to whisper-till-death, and recorded her whispers in a voice-recorder.

The Voice-recorder was indeed perfectly trained - to guide, empathize, cry, shout and cheer - like how a mother do. At times, one can also observe the Voice-recorder, screaming in hell with pain….!!

7 days had fully passed.

Still, the mother had some fight left behind, with gasping breaths. This time, she was surrounded by many loves, who were all astonished by the strength of this mother love..!

The two kids, now realising that something is about to happen to their most lovely mother .. started crying…

Looking at the two kids, the mother hugged them deeply to her chest.. finally crying out hell and shattering all her emotions through loudest tears..

With two kids hugged to her chest, she closed her eyes to sleep peacefully for one last dream..

Dedicated to every mom..

By Srinath KM