In Silence

Nirvana’s father calls for him with his strong, manly voice. Nirvana comes out of his room to notice his father sitting cross-legged on the veranda floor. On one side was a bag filled with clumps of earth, on the other side he had a sieve. Father instructed his son to bring a polythene bag from inside.

Nirvana did just that, but as handed the bag to his father, father threw it back on his son’s face. How about the one that doesn’t have huge fucking hole through it, huh? Father yells. Nirvana ran back inside, well aware of the pitiful curses father must be muttering behind his son’s back.

Nirvana came outside with a hole-less bag, with even less vigour than before. Father told Nirvana to spread open the poly bag, while he filters out the cleaner bits of soil through sieve.

Nirvana did just that. As the cleaner soil was falling into the pit of the poly, Nirvana realised a barking noise. His gaze went straight to notice a white dog poking his head out of the wall of the balcony of a faraway house. The dog was indeed looking towards Nirvana. Realising his father too busy with soil, Nirvana decided to engage with the dog, in silence.