Too Late

Mysterious Man[POV]

I open my eyes it's still dark outside the darkness is not allowing the sun to rise,

I find myself lying down on a bed of a hospital room,

these four walls surrounding me like it's a prison house,considering myself lucky that I didn't die,I move my body to sit when suddenly,I feel a sharp pain in my head,

I remember that the last thing I heard was a scream and the last thing that I felt was being carried on an ambulance,

I lay down again for a while.

A nurse comes in,I get up but she tells me not to,I tell her that I am feeling fine,

she makes it sure by checking my present condition,

the nurse writes me some medicines prescribed by the doctor then briefs me on my medical condition explaining that I did not suffered from any serve injury and

I was lucky that the driver hit the brakes

when things were just about to get worse.

After Paying my hospital bills,I leave for home,on my way back when I pass by an alley,

I plan to make a visit to that lake to get some fresh air,

I join the same old path,

I happen to see the footprints of someone,hoping that they may belong to her and she might be here too,

I follow them placing my foot side by side to the prints,

After Reaching there,

I see the same scenery,nothing has changed because it's nature,the leaves may change their colour but never who they are or flowers may disappear but they blossom again.

The air is fresh,

I take a step close to the lake to witness it's bliss but a great reflection of an angel that completes it is missing,

I look around but she is no where to be seen,

I try to get close to the lake but I suddenly trip onto something and fall into it.

It's chilly the bareness of the water harms me,

deep in water I see a white cloth that covers a female,

I swim towards her and grab her hand,

I can feel the numbness of her cold hands as they touch mine,taking her with me I swim upwards.

After reaching the top,I carry her in my arms and lay her down on the ground,

I can feel no pulse I can hear no sound coming from her heart,

I try to pump her heart but it's already dead,

I am afraid to look at her face,the body is not an old one,

I hope for the last hope that the body may not belong to the person I am thinking of,

I gather up the courage to look at her face.

Please tell me it's not the end,

let the whole world just disappear or please let it be me in place of her,

I see and It's her ,the girl that I used to follow which carried the stars behind her,now,she is lying here with no life,

I don't know what made her do this

it cuts me deep in pieces,

I was never introduced to her but I could see her heart which was made of nothing but gold.

I wish I would have seen her disclosed parts so maybe right now my tears wouldn't fall.

The darkness disappears with sun shining on her.

Two days later

I am walking the same path you used to lead hoping you would be here again to walk it with me,

how can I still hope for something so hopeless when I buried you with my own hands somewhere quite in the ground so no one will ever wake you up from sleep,

even though darling no one came at your grave other than your mother,

she was that old lady who I saved if I knew she was one of the reason for hate that stayed in your name I might have not saved her.

I will come here everyday to visit you just to leave you there alone again,

In the end,

maybe I am to blame so I write in my book engraving your name "Angel"

as my pages are filled by,I write to say my last goodbye following your light:

"I follow the footsteps of a lost soul as

she wanders every night near lakesides,

I wonder if she knows she shines so bright,

I let my heart flow in the tides of her eyes,

I lost her one day, I got so late

I followed her footsteps on mud down the lakes,

I found her but I was too late because suicide claimed her fate."

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