The ruckus of silence -2

Moving on road. Thousand of vehicles passing by and no one caring for anyone else.

Busy world eh!

And in this busy world i was roaming on road without any reason, just to believe that at least I am not part of this busy world. I have time to have a look on this busy world. I have time for me and others.

I was moving with these thoughts in my mind and mocking on the other when my gaze stopped on a view. I saw a drunken man beating his kid harshly. Looking at kid, he would not have been more than ten years old. Kid was crying, crying unstoppable and the wife of the man shouting from inside the room but doing nothing to stop her husband.

First i thought to let it go but the crying and tears of the kid don’t let me to. I went to the house, opened the front gate and snatched the kid from the hand of drunken monster who was about to punch the small kid on his back. The kid was too terrified to distinguish between a known and a stranger. He doesn't even thought twice before wrapping his arm around my waist and taking my back to have a shelter for his safety.

"who the hell are you?" The man asked me in broken words. His stench was suffocating. Eyes almost red due to heavily doped by alcohol. Dry skin and foul breath, this man resembles fully to the monsters which scared me in dreams when I was a kid.

"Enough. Enough of beating. What are you? Not even giving a thought before beating your kid so mercilessly.” I said to man. All I was thinking to calm down that man for a moment so that the poor kid would not have to take more of the drunken wrath.

“and who are you to stop me from beating my own kid? He is my kid and I will do whatever I want. This bastard dropped the money I gave him to bring the whiskey bottle. I am sure this rascal must have spent them.” The drunken man said while trying to maintain his balance on his feet and while saying this he tried to snatch back the kid, hiding behind me.

I couldn’t believe this man sent his 10 years kid to buy alcohol from shop. I just tries to stop the man from getting hold on the kid.

“ See Mister, you seems to be educated and well cultured person to me. So just keep yourself out of our family matter.” Suddenly from nowhere the mother of kid said.

This lady who wasn’t even trying to save her kid from beating now came to tell me her family personal matter. You got to be kidding me! But it was more than enough for me to stay on the place. I moved out of the place. When I turned I saw the kid running into his home. 

Now I knew why some of the parents end up in elderly home in their old age. When a kid didn’t get the necessary care from his father and the love and care from his mother in his early age, how could he probably create the feeling of love, affection , care and respect for them when he is on his own. And does these type of parents deserves the respect and care of their child. Mother not even caring for her child and father sending him to the liquor shop. What kind of impact this child would have of these incident on his mind.

I just moved back to my home and thought in my mind, “ thank God and feel blessed everyone who have their parents caring for them. If you regret and think that your parents didn’t give you enough then think of these kids who get beating of father and undeserved scolding of their mother everyday in their childhood.”

I remember the tears on the kid's face. On that silent face, those silent tears. I wish that his ignorant parents would have heard the plea of those tears. but i guess listening the silence is really hard.