Ishq Paicha

Isq Paicha

by

Sadaf Salman Makhdoom

On waking up early today, I decided to have a healthy breakfast. I had an egg and a very big juicy mango. I felt so good while eating it and sitting all alone staring outside at the "ishq pecha bail" that crawled across our entire boundary wall it just suddenly gave me chills. This plant is a creeper. It inserts its roots on anything it lays its eyes on and uses it to nourish itself. It uses its claws for growth. I then started counting such people I met with ... some old ... some recent encounters ... people who think you are a fool and try to insert their little creepy claws in your bones through your flesh. If you give them an open outlet they will start off showing how green they are...then they will show you that they will wither without you and even show you how they can fall off just like ishq paicha bail...then they will start to wrap themselves around you and right when you start feeling the warmth of that hug they will insert their claws in you.

The weirdest thing is we never learn. Will keep letting such creepers enter our lives ... letting them use us and leaving us all damaged AND stained just like that boundary wall in front of me with green and brown stains. When you jerk off the creeper it leaves marks on your soul just like that wall ... no matter how much I clean it ... no matter how much I scrub it, it's just that the mark is as persistent as the creeper is that it will use you and extract and suck benefits out of you. 

I asked my gardener once to remove this plant altogether so that we can plant a new one which is not a creeper. He did plant some beautiful looking "bail" with big leaves but after a few days, I was in utter disbelief and disgusted that the creeper had reappeared in the beautiful and happy twists and turns of new a "bail" and it looked stubborn. It was adamant upon destroying and sucking on the new "bail" just like that one person whom I recently met who was not just too goal-oriented to use me ... I like the new "bail" was nourishing it with my happiness and honesty. Little did I know that it will crawl all across me and suck me dry and will live in my mind forever just like that stain on the boundary wall. But I am not as strong as this boundary wall. I am scared that the creeper will make me fall...I am scared that I will be fooled and deceived again and again by its immense loving nature ISHQ(extreme love) as its name says so!