The Love of the Duda

TCSD 86: Rainbow

Mara and Dewa were sitting limply beside the burial mound that still looked wet. Just a moment ago, Baskara's body was interred. And at this time only seen a sprinkling of flowers on the ground with a wooden board that became a sign of ownership of the tomb.

Baskara's body is buried next to the tomb of Paramitha Andadari. Mara hopes that her father and mother can always be close together.

"Dad?" mara lirih. His eyes looked a little puffy, as he wept over the father's departure.

Instantly, his memory was fixed on the times where the father always held him lovingly. It must have been a time before the crazy father played gambling. It was a joy that approached his life. He once got perfect happiness with the embrace of his parents intact. But it was only an instant because the happiness ended when the mother began to leave the world, the father chose to marry again and lastly when the father had a stroke.

Mara's tears flowed again and all that did not escape the sight of those who happened to surround her. They seemed to sympathize with what happened to this twenty-year-old woman.

"Take it off, dear. Oma is sure that your father is calm there," said Ora Widuri as she rubbed the back of her daughter-in-law's granddaughter.

"Mara now has no one else, Oma. Mara's parents are gone now."

The painful cries coming out of Mara's lips felt so heartbreaking to those who happened to be nearby. They also felt the pain felt by the woman.

"Ra, you're still us. We are your family now. So you can't say it like that" said Krishna trying to strengthen.

"Thank you very much Krisna!"

"That's exactly what Krishna said, dear. We who are here are your family, so you will never feel alone" continued oma Widuri justifying what was said by Krishna.

"Ra, your father has calmed down. Don't make her way heavier with your cries. Relieve Ra's father, let go!" timpal Pramono who also helped strengthen the woman he had considered as his biological sister.

Mara nodded slowly. "Yes Mas, I will always try to sincerely let go of my father."

Mara was still fixated on staring at this mound of earth before her. His gaze was blank and glaring as if he felt an inner pressure that was so fierce. His emotional turmoil seemed to stir, because for the second time he lost someone he loved so much.

As if knowing what Mara felt, the God rubbed Mara's arm, trying to transfer power to the wife. "Darling, we go home yuk. It's getting late and it looks like it's going to rain."

Mara nodded. Before he left, the woman kissed Baskara's nameplate with clinging. "Mara has let Dad go. Right now I will definitely not feel any pain anymore. Thank you so much for being the best Dad for Mara all this time, Dad. May you always be calm there."

Mara began to rise from her squatting position. He and all the entourage began to set foot to leave this burial area. While the Gods, still faithfully holding Mara's hand, tried to give her strength. Before he actually exited the burial area, he turned around and looked back at his father-in-law's grave.

Have a good rest, Dad... May you no longer feel pain. Thank you for being from you and your late mother who has presented a woman who is so beautiful and angelic hearted like my wife. I promise you both that with all my soul, I will make your daughter happy for the rest of her life. Just like father and mother, the presence of your daughter is also the most beautiful gift from God to me after oma.

This is the wheel of life. We who are still alive, are actually just waiting for the turn to be called back to His lap. Somewhere so quiet as this we are left alone, and what more would our friend be if not a charity?

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Returning from the tomb, Mara still seemed to dissolve in deep sadness. From earlier the woman was still at home for a long time standing in front of the window while staring at the expanse of the blue sea with a blank and glaring gaze. Apparently the tears from the clear well was unable to stop him. The tears were still flowing with a torrent that he could not stop at all.

The heart of God feels like slashed by a knife without eyes that are so raining to see the wife who still looks dissolved in the sadness. Slowly, he moved his legs to get closer to his wife and then hugged her from behind. He put his head in the recess of his wife's neck and kissed her intensely.

Still with a glare, Mara sniffed her shoulders. "Maybe it's a cloudy middle day, Mas."

"Yes, that's right, honey. The sky today seems so gloomy, for he also grieves to see this angelic woman in deep sorrow."

A smile on Mara's lips. Hearing this dreadful remark from her husband, inevitably made her chuckle a little. "You're busting me, huh?"

God shakes. "No dear, I'm not flirting. What I said is true. Do you know how to make the sky clear again?"

Mara's eyebrows are tied together. His forehead is slightly pucker. "How is it going, Mas?"

The god turned Mara's body around. Now the two are in a position to face each other and face each other. The god brought his face closer to Mara's face, trying to erode the distance that lay between the two. Slowly, the God began to peek at the wife's forehead, eyes, cheeks, nose, lips, and chin intensely.

"Smile Darling. That way, the sky will definitely return bright!"

Mara chuckles small. "What are you talking about? An impossible thing this gloomy sky suddenly turned bright just because I was smiling."

"Do you not believe what I say, dear?"

Mara shakes. "No, I don't believe."

"Now try to smile! We see, whether the sky will return bright or remain black."

As if driven by curiosity about what this husband said, Mara started to smile broadly. The sorrow and heart murmurs that previously adorned her beautiful face, now changed with twinkling of happiness.

The god smiled widely. He turned back Mara's body to back her up. Again, the God clutched tightly to the wife's body from behind. "Look at the sky, baby. Is the sky back to light? The cloud that had previously been seen to be blurring the earth, now gradually began to disappear."

Mara stared in amazement at what appeared before her eyes. That is true what the husband said. Cloudy clouds that previously looked so dense decorate the sky, now began to be replaced with the appearance of orange twilight sunlight that looks so spoil the eyes.

"Mas... Th-this?"

The god nodded his head. "Stay smiling darling, so the world will be happy for you too with. And what do you see in that expanse of sky?"

Mara's lips were wide open. Seeing something so beautiful adorn the sky this afternoon. "Mas... That rainbow?"

"Yes, that's a rainbow darling. Believe me the rainbow is one picture of the life you live. After a great storm has ravaged your mind and your life, rest assured that there will only be happiness in your next life."

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