WHY AM I LIKE THIS?

it is a type of autobiography of a bamboo tree. it has been written in a simplest way of its usual and unusual experience of its life.

CHAPTER 1

After long years of waiting I could see, I could feel. Oh! My all getup got changed. I look more beautiful than my past look. Today I look fair and lovely! The problem is I can’t see a thing, don’t think that I am blind or something, it is so dark in here! Let me guess, where might they are taking me to? May they are going to squeeze like they did before, oh my God! No, no that’s impossible. They are not that bad, right? Are they?

I am afraid of darkness, not that I am used to it, but whenever I think of darkness I can only hear of those screams! I am not afraid of dark, but I am afraid of the darkness of the dark...

What am I thinking? Ho! I don’t have to think about all those. I really am a fool! But why was I thinking about? Why am I talking to myself? Am I crazy? But, where really are they taking me to?!

 

CHAPTER 2

The voice of the children, their craziness, everything has made the place in to a heaven. Only children used to come over there. They used to play with me; they made me stump in their cricket matches as I was that small. I always used to think that I will also get the opportunity

to bat or ball. I never did get a chance! After so many years of waiting I became the tallest, but then I saw that they avoided me and moved their pitch to another place and made another smallest one as the stump. I wanted to go there and play with them. I tried to run, but I couldn’t. I wanted to run to them, but I saw that my legs were missing... it was there but hidden! They were under the ground. They might be searching for me there, but I was here above the ground! I wanted to call them and I tried too; but I couldn’t say a word. I had no mouth. I searched for it; but of no use. Then I find out that I am different, I am different from the children who used to play with me. They were in good shape when I was lean; they were of average height when I was very tall; I could only see their head’s hair from my angle of sight. Why am I different? Am I that good or they are that bad, to make us different from each other? Only He knew the answer. He is the almighty and whatever he does is for our own good! May be he has very different task for me to complete or may he has no task at all to give me!

 

 

CHAPTER 3

Ouch! What the hell was that? What was that noise? Was it the same that I heard that day? No way! How could I hear the same voice always? And this one was different, with the voice there is jerking! What is happening? Is the Earth is shaking? No, it is not like this! As if I know how it is! But yes it is not an Earth quake. This is something else. What are they talking to each other? Are they quarreling? Maybe! They might be quarreling for me. The one who is scolding the other might be so desperate to have me. Oh I am famous! Why he need me so badly? Maybe he like me, wow, I am liking this! Hey, what has happened? Why did they become so silent? Oh I get it. The one who liked me might have won and is coming to get me! There was one day when someone came for me like this...

 

CHAPTER 4

They were tall and broad; but not enough to compete with me. They stood before me. They were the different version of the children who used to play with me. They looked at me for some time. I felt like I am blushing. One of them touched me. He might like me. He pressed me first, and then all of a sudden he started to push me with his hand. Oh it made me feel pain. I thought it might be his style of making love to me. Then I saw he was waving his hand, still pushing me with the other. I saw there was something in his hand. He then called another of his kind and removed his hand from me. The other one came and pushed me like the first one. Then I couldn’t see anything. They were doing something that I have never seen. But definitely they did something to me because when they left me I couldn’t move a bit. I was trapped between something. What was that, I don’t know? But it was something very powerful. I used to play with a black wire which was in less distance from me and I could saw it on my angle of sight. But after they did that mischief I couldn’t even touched my friend. He then told me that they wanted to end our relationship as they are afraid if we mingle so much, they will have problem to get electricity. He even told me that they are the so called leaders of the world, as they are the ones who can speak. I didn’t get that part. But I get to know that they are jealous of our friendship. It is not that I have no friends, I have a lot of friends from my own kind; but we lived with each other and so get bored. We were like brothers and sisters who born from different parents.

CHAPTER 5

What has happened? Is there anything wrong or something? Wow, I can see light now. Sun is smiling directly at me. I am sure that anybody looking at me can see me glittering in the sunlight. Everybody around here is looking at me. Wait a second, why is everyone staring at me? Am I really become a superhero? Hey, what are you doing? You can’t just take me that easily! Hey, ho1 oh my God! Stop it I said. Please...

“Due to lack of evidence, this court has declared the five as innocent in the case GANG RAPE BETWEEN THE BAMBOO.”

Something is happening on me. What the hell is this black gown doing on me? Oh, it is not just a gown, there is somebody in it. The thing is doing something on me. What is it? Whatever it is doing, is very painful.  Who is that? I know her, she is...

It was making me cry, all my freedom has gone in minutes. The humans are really cruel. How can they do such things to the other kind? The tied me for a crime that I haven’t done. They tied me for keeping friendship with electric wire! My hands, whether it is small, are tied and I can’t swing in the cool breeze.

“Leave me; please... please let me go.”

“Leave you; you don’t know how difficult it was to capture you and you are pleading to leave you, in your dreams”

“Please...”

Hey, leave that girl! Leave her I said. She is your own kind. How can you let your own kind to suffer? Please let her go! No...

 

CHAPTER 6

I understand what is being written on me. It is her case; the case which had been closed by lack of evidence.

Hey, the so called judge of humans, I know the truth. I am an eye witness who saw the crime helpless. It was those who tear the girl for their pleasure. It was their kind who tied me the same day so that I can’t help her. It has been a planned RAPE, whatever that meant. Let the vampires die, let the angel get respect and right! Please my Lord, take my statement as evidence and let the truth win today...

 

AUTHOR’S NOTE

As expected the Almighty Judge didn’t heard the paper’s cry. He didn’t hear his own kind’s cry. Then how can we expect him to do other than neglecting the “objects.”