Unfulfilled Promise

As she entered the house,tired and lost, her eyes got fixed on the photo frame holding her smiling dad.Today she wasn't able to face him.She turned the frame down as it reminded her the promise she made.She vowed to be a doctor.But destiny had some other plans for her.She was in the hospital, not as a doctor but like a tramp begging for her mother's life.She wailed loudly.These tears weren't due to the pain she suffered selling her body at Kamathipura but the agony of unfulfilled promise heaped on her.She chose her mother over her promise.

©Dr.Shweta Prakash Kukreja

June2021