The Guarantor of Gazelle

Desert was enjoying this scene fully. It thought: how painful is the days of separation, moments of tears, and hour of screams. It cannot think anything more painful than these. It whispered in the ears of wind that whether the hind wants to live with her children or to keep her promise. Air said to it slowly: “I don’t know what she intended.” Desert said: “it is a hard decision.” The breeze said: “we often stuck at the crossroads, one of which has to adopt.” Desert said: “it’s always been hard for me to decide.” The breeze said: “when we decide something, we are actually writing our own destiny.”
Hind called her children in the shadow of a large tree. She sat with them on green grass and said to them: “I have something to say to you.” Then she took a pause and her children started looking her surprisingly. Hind thought: this is time to tell the truth to them. Her heart sank at thinking this and she felt pain. The heat of happiness ends, she felt a deadly cooling in her whole existence. Her body was broken. A sigh of pain come out from her helpless and poor heart: “is it right that I have to return?” the stressed hind by grief and sorrow murmured something by lips: “how will they live without me?”
The small children were surprised on her sudden silence. What has happened mother? Why are you murmuring slowly?
Hind thought: it is not possible to live away from her children. She saw them anguishing and said to herself: “if you break your promise then what will happen to that merciful man? Isn’t it unfair that He become the victim of the treachery of a hind? He has favored you. Will you respond with evil in reward of His good deed? Then what should I do?” she was lost in thinking such things and to get rid of them was not possible. She was unable to decide. She made a sigh of pain and said to her children: “I have something to say you which are very hard to say. I can’t understand how to start it.”
Her breathing was stopped, she couldn’t speak. Her heart started beating fast. “I want you to listen carefully and remember my talks.” The children felt a danger naturally. Their heart was beating fast and it was even hard to blink their eyes. They couldn’t understand what their mom wants to say. They were surprisingly looking her. Mother said: “I want that you listen to me and prove that you are grown up now. You are supposed to accept the reality if it may be bitter any way.”
What was the reality which mom was going to say?
It was hard to breath by the fear of unknown danger. There was darkness in front of them and they were shivering. They were trembling in sunlight. Air was stopped, trees were silent, the birds left singing, stream was silent and desert was charmless.
Hind said: “there are always up and down in life to test us. Sometime there appeared such incident from which we cannot escape.”
The small children couldn’t tolerate and said: “what is the truth mother? What do you want to say? There is not the familiar fragrance in your words? Tears come out from her eyes and her children got upset. “Why are you crying mother?”
Air has moved away from there to not see their face while weeping and to let the hind talk to her children freely in solitude. It was also very hard for desert to see them in anxiety and worry.
Honorable hind decided to return to the promised place. She did not forget the merciful man. She hates to deceit someone. She said to her children: “it is hard for you but you have to make the habit of living without me, believe in yourself and try to cope with the difficulties of life.” Suddenly they felt that the world is getting dark. Heart beating was going to stop, breathing was getting stopped and nature becomes harsh. Children said in uncertainty: “would you want to leave us?”
The hind said to her children: “I know that it is a hard job, but you should to make the habit to live without me. You must face the realities courageously.”
Mother said: “yes, forever.”
Children started crying. Mother was trying to control on her pain and to make her children calm down. It was very hard to control her emotions in such situation but she controlled herself and started her story: “I was on the bank of spring water to drink water with another hind. Suddenly the sound of the horse’s legs was heard. Everyone was running in fear. Unfortunately the hunter made me the target. It was near to be caught up in his net after a long follow. But a merciful man helped me luckily. I run to him seeking help. He was too kind and loving. He sheltered me and tried to convince the hunter by all means to let me go, but hunter was too stubborn to accept. Then the kind man took permission from him to let me go to meet you and say good bye to you. The merciful man had promised to accept his slavery in case I did not return.”
They were listening to their mom with sorrow and pain and were crying. They were trembling of the fear of separating from her. They were worried like those birds whose nests damaged due to the desert storm.
Hind made a sigh of pain and said: “then you tell me how I can deceive that merciful man?”
Children said with sorrow: “but what we will do mother? You are not bound to go there? You are free. You live with us. Nobody can force you to go.”
Hind said: “there is one thing which forced me to go?”
Children said: “what is that thing mom?”
Mother said: “loyalty and keeping promise.”
Children started kissing their mother’s hands and feet. They were crying in her love to let her stop from leaving but she had made her decision. The babies crying were pricking in the desert heart like an arrow. The hind said to her children while making them silent: “it is too late. I must go. You may become strong. You may take your decisions by your own.”
They were crying and restlessness was growing. Mother kissed them with broken heart. Desert was trembling on their weeping sound. The birds were also crying. Hind made a will on her departure: “I want you to take good care of one another. Don’t separate and always do well. Live with truth and always remember that I am with you. My heart beats due to you. I will bear the difficulties of imprisonment for you.”
The younger one said:“but,………., mother! If you don’t stay with us then, mother, I am scared of darkness without you.”
Mother kissed him, smelled and said with love: “my children, you are not alone ever. I am always with you. I live in your heart. Your pure heart beats due to me. I will come in your dreams every night, I will sing song, I will tell you the story of the days when we were together. I was so happy on your birth and I was exulting with joy.
Desert said to her:“your children are grown up. They have to accept the ground realities.” Hind said:“you are right.” One of them said: “life is useless without you; we want to live with you.”