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In response to Danny writing challenge: Spring Fairly Tale, though this is not a fairy tale in that sense.

She was gone, disappeared.  I was feeling that she was getting sick, her color was fading, getting white, day by day.  When I looked at her, a pinching shiver used to sweep throughout my body. 

“Are you sick? You are looking so colorless, what is happening to you?”

There rose a feeble smile on her fading lips, the lips which were so red when I saw her first, so full of life.  It was very hard for me to stop myself touching them just to know how delicate they were.  She tried to show her happiness seeing me so concern about her. 

“You love me so much.  What will if I die”  She asked me with all sadness in her eyes.

 “Is there any doubt in your mind about my love, and do not talk about dying.  If you die I will die, too.  I come to see you here in this garden daily without fail, though I see all around me wherever I go, your beauty, your colors, your fragrance all around me.  You were so beautiful, so charming, so full of life when I saw you first a few months ago, but now you are getting yellowish, and even white. What is happening to you?”  

Seeing my love for her she once again tried to bring the smile on her drying lips.  “It is all natural, don’t you see, there is death after life and then life after death.  It has been happening here since this earth was created.  I am dying, but do not worry I will come back when it is over.” 

And it did happen.  She disappeared. No sign of her was there.  The entire place was covered with snow, and the cold wind was blowing as it was wailing on her death. She was nowhere.  Even the glimpse of her green, blue, red, yellow, purple colors was nowhere to see.  Only whiteness was prevailing.

I came back and almost shut myself inside.  Months passed, I got myself covered with layers of clothes to hide from the freezing sadness. I didn’t know how the time was passing.  The track of time seemed to be lost.  Then one morning I again hear the chirping of birds outside.  I got off my bed and went outside. I saw she was once again appearing, I ran to the garden to see whether she was there.  Yes, she was there.  Once again life has bestowed upon her and she was alive.  “Oh, my life, you are alive.  How delighted to see you once again my ‘spring’!