Lolly-pop

Cherry flavored, mango flavored, strawberry flavored, chocolate flavored ,she loved lolly-pops. There were many temptations around but for her it was only the Lolly-pop which gave her joie de vivre. Even If she was lazy , sleepy, angry , or even indifferent, a lolly-pop would make her beatific. And that look on her face made me serene and exuberant. With nostalgia, I sat on my rocking chair with a cup of tea, gazing at the burnt black sky recalling my memories with my daughter 20 years back, when tiny raindrops fell on my bald head hinting at a storm.

I ran inside the house when I saw her sobbing. I was furious, the man she loved had betrayed her. I was helpless and she was vulnerable. All my efforts to make her happy were in vain. I knew a temporary remedy, the Lolly-pop. I kept 20 Lolly-pops of all flavours in her room. She was asleep, so I stood outside the door waiting for her to see the Lolly-pops. She woke up but with a poker face. And the next day, those Lolly-pops were mingling with rotten vegetables and other garbages in the dustbin. " I detest Lolly-pops Dad, am 20 year old and I am on diet, I avoid sweets ; I can not believe it,you are only intensifying my sorrow, I am not spending my vacation with you anymore, you suffocate me". 

Today I lament, I have not seen my daughter for past 12 years. Wiping the rolling tears on my cheeks, it was a pleasant sunny day, when the door bell rang.  A little girl  stood there eating a multi-coloured Lolly-pop along with my daughter. She is now married with a kid and we four plan to stay together. Her daughter loves Lolly-pop and we now walk hand-in-hand dancing to the tune of the joy of buying a Lolly-pop.