My Wanderings -69. Short Story No. - 49. Her Last Romance

It is said that Men always want to be a woman's first  love , women like to be a man's last romance. But  in a relationship like marriage men may become woman's  first love but woman is rarely a last romance in man's life . Mostly the men do not realise that the  beauty of woman is not in a facial mode but the true beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul. It is the caring that she lovingly gives the passion that she shows . The beauty  of a woman grows with the passing years. Actually it is the caring attitude and confidence in a  women that makes her sexy rather than her physical appearance .
Here I will like to narrate an old  tale of an ordinary woman  who was called by the name of Kamla.
Kamla  like all other woman of her times was very  radiant , full of  life and yearning for all the happiness that she could imagine in her little world.  She was very passionate and anticipating the existence of Prince charming in her life to whom she can bestow all her love . She did not know how he looks ? But she will adore and worship him . Kamala was not a paragon of beauty but a woman of ordinary appearance . But all her  homely looks, youth  and passionate characteristic made her disposition charming .
Later on Kamala was married to Raj. It was an arranged marriage . Raj was a handsome  young man having a very good job in engineering Deptt. He had a  very good  income by the way of  salary and other sources . But it was not only happiness that was anticipated by Kamla, marriage also brought  with it  many responsibilities  and liabilities for her. She  wholeheartedly devoted herself to her new assignment  and accepted all the allied responsibilities with out a wrinkle on her face for the love of her husband Raj . The marriage was successful for so many years . They loved each other very much .They could not bear to seperate from each other for a day or two. Whenever Kamala would go to her mother's home for two three days, Raj would arrange to bring her back the same evening .
One day Kamla said to Raj , " Darling ! I feel embarrassed sometime by your possessive behaviour ."
" But I can't help it  dear I can't bear your separation for a single day.,"
" Love me a little dear , but longer please ". , retorted  back kamala.
In the meantime Kamla delivered two sons and a daughter.
The destiny played its own part and Love did not last longer between the two as implored by Kamla .
Raj got promoted and lady  success began to lure him .
He started showing coldness towards the relation between the two . Now Raj was looking for the greener pastures .
Kamla  was observing keenly the activities of Raj . Raj got involved with various woman . He started taunting Kamla. Kamla  resiprocated  Raj in the same way. All the love in the relation was exhausted like thin air  and a vacuum was created. But the relation between the two continued as divorces were not so common those.  days in the community . Moreover, they had three children who were growing fast and needed look after . Kamla tried hard to find  and use all the  local beauty aids , whichever available  those days .Alas! beauty saloons were not existing  then. She wanted to look beautiful to attract the attention of her husband once more . But all in vain .  She was not successful in attracting the attention of her husband towards her again .  She longed for it through out her  life desperately .  Moreover , the cheap beauty aids available those days made her to look  more absurd . With the passage of time and advance age she became  more skeptical and apprehensive  and   began to find solace in taunting her husband in presence of others . She would tell  about his randevous to  everyone even in the presence of her  husband . But his husband remained always silent in presence of others, perhaps due to his guilty conscience.
Even after marriage of their children and after becoming grand parents , peace never returned to their relationship and love remained a precarious entity for them through out their lives . 
It will be worthwhile to mention about the incident when Kamla was very old and on death bed in a hospital a young Doctor  entered the hospital room and exclaimed , " vow !" Kamla ji you look so  beautiful and pretty  today ."in order to boost her moral perhaps.
She immediately retorted back ,
" Oh my Prince charming , where were you so far. I longed for you throughout my life."
With these words she closed her eyes and bade farewell  to this mortal world .