Imprints

Have you heard the reverberation of your own footsteps on the ground?

Have you trudged along in solitude and heard nothing but your own thoughts and the sound of your footsteps, marking themselves ever so temporarily on the earth, only to vanish a second later?

Have you felt the sweat trickle down your back? Ease, calm and all that matters?

Have you been happy? The kind that makes you smile even in the worst times of all? The kind that will go on for lifetimes, even in its own absence?

Have you endured pain? Not the physicality of it but the kind of pain that never leaves you? Because it resides in you. Because it has been there so long that it has become a part of you. You neither deny it , nor accept it. You, just, somehow, live with it.

But most importantly, have you heard the reverberation of your own footsteps on the ground?

Photography: Sonu Yadav