MY ROMEO! MY JULIET: A WONDERFUL POST ON STEEMIT BY @mimy
(The story begins in Juliet's office where Romeo mourns Juliet's death. The rest of the story swifts from the world of the living to present Romeo's tragic actions. It also swifts back and forth to the world of the dead where Juliet is. (She can see Romeo from her world)
During these alternations, we have a back story about the lives of Romeo and Juliet.
THE STORY
(Some moments after Juliet's death)
...... Right then, He felt the pangs of love, the biting unquenchable yearn for love filled his heart. Her office assumed a mixture of sad colors one could never imagine.
“Rainbow” he groaned loudly, sinking into her chair, melting into her tales of loyalty and love.
(Juliet's World)
Somewhere in the land of the dead, a ghostly sad Juliet began a song of torture and sweetness. Now, she found the answers to her questions; all night and all day, the dead wander, rejoice and cry! There was nothing like a silent graveyard.
Two apparitions zoomed past her, distracting her from the man in tears(Romeo) whom she concentrated on in the world which she now was an alien to.
“Even love exist here, he has come to join her” She spoke as the apparitions zoomed past her. It was the first time she spoke in the few minutes she arrived here. It dawned on her that she couldn’t speak out except in her thoughts but she heard others voices clearly…
(Romeo in Juliet's office)
“Juliet!!!” The word rose sorrowfully from nowhere haunting his soul! All he imagined now was her form! Her shape! Her body! Why then did she torture him this much? Every object in her office reminded him of her. She was to him a friend, a sister, a father and mother but never a woman. He never saw her as a woman. She was a part that made him whole. she was his better half, and a world without her was an empty one. The best business partner he could ever have.
She was his confidant who was ever ready to listen to his tale despite the pains of the unreturned love she had for him
(Three days before Juliet's death)
“Romeo, just be more patient. women are like that. Desdemona is just being silly because you have spoilt her with too much affection” Juliet advised with every part of her existence yearning for a kiss, a kiss of love, a kiss to console. Sometimes, her heart would curse the lady that brought him so much pain. The twists of love; Sometimes we love and want someone but they don't want us back and sometimes they would do everything to get us but we would never spare even a second!
“I would return the files soon, buy her chocolates” She had advised at some point, not bothering to fight back the tears.
“Juliet! Wait.” She heard his voice quiver as she rushed out of his office.
(Juliet's world)
“…Juliet! wait” His words vibrated strongly and mightily in her world. She felt fear. A hand tapped her softly.
“Young lady, don’t do that here, you disturb the spirits. Thy eyes must be closed when thou want memories from the past lest thy disturb the spirits. Mother Life would not hesitate to take your powers from you” The voice spilled softly, serenely, clothed with shiny decay and lively rust.
“And who are you?” Juliet asked.
Venus, for I am everywhere”.
“Venus?” Juliet beamed, sighed and asked for the gift of tears. The goddess granted her then she poured out all of her pains, her joy, her weakness, her shame.
The tears dripped slowly till it became a river. The other spirits gathered to sing a song of sweet sad love for the new comer (Juliet) while it rained heavily in the world beyond, the world of the living, where she had just left.
As it rained in Romeo's world, Juliet watched. She saw him still in her office as he shivered. It was so transparent and fluid yet she couldn’t touch him. She heard him cough from the cold. The cold weather from beyond brought her memories that would forever remain sacred and dear…
(Few days before Juliet's death)
… And as they slept, they knew it was a night which would never be forgotten for as long as they lived or even in their graves.
The day had not started well for either of them. When Juliet picked Romeo's call that noon she knew Desdemona had done it again; she had failed to show up their date.
"I would be there soon" She had assured him. Hoping to give him all the happiness and laughters he missed from the failed date.
They had spent the day having fun late into the night till he suggested she spent the night at his place. She shivered at such request but she knew he didn’t see her in such llight. Also, she could do anything to make him happy and as for him he had never felt such happiness, attachment and safety. He was willing to do everything to make her happy.
So as they slept memories of the day plagued their minds finding its way into their bonded dreams. In Romeo's dream, the zoo was fascinating, in it, a lion had swallowed Juliet and of course, he, Romeo went right into its mouth, roared at the lion. Terrified, the lion spat out his best friend, his sister, his confidant, his soul mate.
That night, She wrapped her arms slowly around him, taking her fill from the fantasies in her dream.
(Days after the date)
That night changed his perception of her. Now, he noticed how sexy she was. How had he not seen that for the twenty one years they had been together as friends? Now, his heart shook at the mere sound of her footstep. He knew everything about her, her scent, her looks, her next words, her reactions. It was Juliet he loved! He finally realized! She was the only woman he had ever felt safe and whole with. He had never felt that way with Desdemona, his fiancée. Juliet held the keys to his happiness and peace! He wanted her, to love her heart gorgeously, to be the father of her kids…
(Next morning after Juliet's sleep over at Romeo's house)
Sadly, she woke up in the middle of the night to watch him as he slept. She was certain he had no place for her in his heart. That morning, she accepted Iago's proposal.
"It's Romeo i love. You cannot have my heart but you will have the rest of my life. Let us seal it with a blood, Iago"
Then, a meshed smile appeared on her face.
(Juliet's world)
Her tears had become a valley now in her new world where less attention was now paid to her but to the new arrivers.
Slowly, she placed her toe into the valley. Her naked legs slide in, till the whole of her being was in. She swam furiously in her valley of passion and pain.
(Romeo's office. Few minutes before Juliet's death and few days after the sleep over)
The kiss was furious, filled with rage, revenge, anger, passion and love.
Inhabitants of the spirit world where Juliet would soon be a part of acknowledged it. Bereaved at the duo and the inevitable impending scene. Sad at the fate of man! The bitterness and complexities of existence! Man’s inability to comprehend love or fully express it. The inadequacy of love and language.
“Romeo! Stop” Her aching voice pleaded angrily as she pulled away from the kiss. How could he do this now? Now that she had already accepted her fiance proposal and even sealed it with blood.
Now that she was coming to break the good news about her courtship and all he did was welcome her roughly in a tender way with a sudden passionate kiss. Why?
“NO!” She yelled.
“Romeo!” she called out with so much despair and guilt, the expression on her face was deadly as if she knew her time had come. She ran out of his office, down the stairs…
(Juliet's death)
She held him shouted her name from his office. Anger and pain was what she felt.
She did not watch the stairs well. She fell fatally. Soon she was covered in blood. Everything became blurry. She saw everyone around her, shouting and screaming. She looked around for Romeo among the weeping crowd that surrounded him. He wasn't there. Then she heard his voice , from afar, screaming "Which Juliet, My Juliet? No!"
She wanted to scream back, to call his name. That was when her eyes dropped dead.
(Few minutes after Juliet's death)
The news of her death hit him!!! He made no attempt to go down to stare at her bleeding dead body on the stairs. Instead he ran to her office, hugging and kissing all of her things, her calendars, her wallpapers, her papers, her clothes, yelling her name helplessly.
... Right then, he felt the pangs of love, the biting unquenchable yearn for love filled his heart, her office assumed a mixture of sad colors one could never imagine, he wept helplessly.
(Juliet's world)
His tears echoed in her new world, till it dried up her valley of love, of tears! And she laid on the bare sand till a hand touched her softly, waking her up.
“Venus, you are here again! I love him Venus, I want him Venus, please make him happy, I can’t be happy here Venus. Help me, heal him” Juliet sobbed.
The voice of ages spoke “He will be fine, he will meet another woman. He will marry her but he will love only one woman again till he dies and that is his child! That child is you! You can be with him only as a daughter! She will look exactly like you but I will take all those memories from you. You see that land over there” Venus said pointing. “That is the land for the unborn! Now you will go there and wait till it’s your time to go into the world again”.
“go, gO, Go,GO, GOOO!” The voice of ages rose, till the inhabitants joined in the chorus so that everywhere trembled, Swaying, with their hands stretched and head bends, they ordered her into another realm, marveled at the mysteries of life.
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