Rhiannon Rhythm

This is one of the most sought after post on my blog (courtesy: stats):) And the best thing about this post is it gets updated, as the story unfolds. I don’t know after this most recent edit (September 29, 2009); when will it be updated next, but at least this is for sure, till the time, the author of this post is alive, he/she will be giving voice to this ‘meow’, about whom you are going to read next:

2001: The baby kitten opens her eyes, she is so scared. Everybody calls her little meow, but she is so much different from the other kittens. She does not look like one, but still she sticks to the belief that she is a one, because evrybody calls her so. The world is such a bad place……people know how to walk on the dead souls. She is as innocent as the new bud…..Will she survive? Will she be spared?

All she had seen was the fluttering of wind, blooming of flowers, descending of clouds and falling of rain on that vast green field. She used to run around the field, better than anyone. She knows one day she will grow up to become more clever than anyone. Sometimes, when she is in deep musings she wonders what it is like to me a lioness…..and the next moment in her empire of mind she is the one. Then she sees a lion in the distance, all she realizes is there exists something inside, which beats faster than that train which crosses the old bridge near the fields everyday. It was nothing she felt the first blissful feeling of her life that the world likes to call as ‘Love’….!!!

August 2002: The lion is leaving the fields, he has to enter the jungle. To carve a niche for himself. In last ten months he has seen this little baby of ours growing, they are befriended, the green pastures are such a place that all the animals are in harmony with each other . He knows what she feels. But oooohh, she is a kitten and a baby:(. The lion bids her goodbye…….he goes ahead to find a world of his own, in search of his lioness. Our baby kitten cries her heart out. She complains to that “power” that everybody says is responsible for the lightening during a thunderstorm. She pledges she will grow up to b a big, powerful cat oneday and never set her heart on anybody else. Memories do not leave her mind, they become an inseparable part of our little meoow.

August 2002-August2005: Green pastures had turned into a battle ground. The fittest had to survive here……..Our little kitten has grown up……….all the animals are scared of her now. Nobody tells her what is the reason, but she gets to see it in their eyes. Something is wrong. When she walks on her path, the path is vacated. She has felt the change in her claws, in her gait, in her strength, she is the new queen of the jungle………..but heart in heart, she is our little meoww. All this while, you might be wondering, has she forgotton the lion. Nopes, she daily comes to that small hill where she had seen the lion resting for the first time. This is a ritual for her, and a reason for her survival……!!!!

August 2005: Pastures have been taken by the government. the animals are moving to the different regions. Our little meow decides to leave the green valley and come to the big jungle. She makes her journey to the place. This is her first time in the jungle. She feels so lost. But, there is something about her that still make the animals leave their space. Soon, she makes a place for herself. But, she still misses her old kingdom, where she had acquired her own status of the Queen!!!!

One fine day, our little meow happened to tread across the bridge at the end of the jungle. There flows a river with a clear spring water. She walks to the end of the river and dips her head to sip the water from the river. Booommmmmm!!! what is that. she is taken aback. This is not me, she says to herself………….arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr ” I look more like……..like ……………..like………………the lioness!!!!

The realization daunt upon her…..!!! oh!!! so taht was the reason for my gait, and confidence, she mutters under her breath…….smiles spreads on those lips, eyes sparkle with an unbound happiness!!!! She runs back to her den, she knows what she needs to do now. She needs to search for the lost lion anyhow. She knows he went back to the jungle…………..she wants to meet him and let him know that the little meow has grown up into his lioness, and there was not a moment in those six years that she had not missed him.

August 2006-2007: Our little meow, oh sorry queenie lioness has already find her Lion back. The first thing that she tells him is her meowww , the same old sound that as a little meow she had uttered to him. The lion is delighted to see her back. he has grown into the Lion of the jungle……….he had seen a lot in this span……………and the saddest part being he is now so disheartened, that he tells the meow to go back, and find a new dream, a dream she can chase, a dream that might b suitable for her……..what he does not realizes is that meowww…..will never do that………no matter what………!!!! Because she might be the queenie lioness ruling the jungle………..heart in heart she still the meowww, who loves her lion more than anything. and you know what, she still prays to that lightening gord who comes around the month of August every year, to let her one wish come true….the wish that she had saved for these last six years………….The story still is not complete………….lets c what our little meow gets…….will she survive this time, will she get her wish granted…may be that old bumbble bee that has its home on that old oak, and that predicts the future, will be knowing……:)!!!

August 2009: Life was going as usual for our meow; it took a little more than eight years for her to find her Lion. Everyday, they were getting closer to their dream until the morning of August 23.

Meow could not believe her ears; the Lion was gone! Gone forever! She had tried to reason out, but could not succeed. For the first time in her life, the little meow cried. She did not even touched the bowl of milk left on her doorway by her friends for next four days. How could she? Her hopes, dreams, visions, all were gone. Meow thought, perhaps this is the end. She wanted to jump over the cliff at the end of the jungle, the cliff that would have taken her down the abyss, where none of the animals ever dare to walk; if it was not for that saint who was praying over the rock.

He told her that everything in life happened for a reason, and most of the times the reason is good. He told her that the MAKER who created her was protecting her in every way. Meow knows life is not going to be easy and she needs to start afresh. She is more than sure that she will never be able to forgive the Lion. She knows it’s time to leave this jungle; the same jungle which was her home for all these years, the jungle that hold so many memories. The jungle she wanted to start her life in.

September 2009: Our meow is more than happy. She could not have seen God’s way of being fair in a better way. Does she remembers the Lion? Of course Yes, but as a memory that was good and glad that it was over. Our meow has been invited into a new jungle and she is planning to leave this place for good. Life hold so many miracles that are waiting for her to unfold. Our meow knows there are more heights to be reached, and more places to be explored……and meow’s journey continues. She still believes that nothing gives you more power, or makes you more happy/contended or makes you so aware/enlightened as being in Love. Whenever she is alone, she still utters under her breath – a little ‘meow’ sound – to reaffirm her faith in these beautiful words  called LIFE and LOVE !:)

So next time, u know u love somebody just say meow…….:)

P.S The Lion is well settled is perhaps happy too and sadly this is the last occasion when he is part of our meow story! The character ends here….and will no longer be the part of our meow chronicle! Adios Amigos!

To b Continued……!!!

Disclaimer: The characters in the above narration are purely fictional, any resemblance to any person or animal living or dead is purely coincidental