The crumbling walls

He watched the dried eyes of his father who sat in front of her now cold lifeless body. He shook his mother once and then again calling out to her, crying out “Maa” as he shook her. As tears streamed down his eyes he looked up into his father’s eyes that seemed to be lost into another world. The boy’s lips quivered as he said “Baba?” but he did not get any reply from his father. That was when he realised for the first time that the walls had started to crumble.

~niviaaru~