Embarrassing moment : Sipra Roy.
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It was an old abandoned double storied house,
Where I went as a participant in classical music contest
I was number six out of nine candidates
All of us waited sitting on the carpet spread on the ground.
One by one was called by name to present their talent
To the enlightened examiners to an adjacent closed compartment.
I was memorizing the tough 'tunes 'with closed eyes and palpitation
As next one was my turn to appear before them;
Suddenly noisy commotion of thumping and running feet
Through stairs, Sound of conch from neighborhood
Along with screaming voice "Earthquack!"chilled my bone;
I saw me sitting alone while others were rushing down.
My cramped leg, numbed feet due to prolonged
Sedentary position made me lifeless statue
An excited volunteer screamed at me,"move and run"!
My choked voice made me dumb in fear
As a chunk dropped from the roof-top spreading cement powder!
I threw only a helpless vacant look around the empty room!
The volunteer picked me in sedentary pose to his lap
And came down swiftly in the open courtyard among others.
Finding myself like a baby on the stranger's lap embracing his neck,
And Some anxious leaning faces encircling me who commented:
'Is she fainted?"
Shaking dirt I stood up from the lap, feeling quite embarrassed!
By the time earthquake stopped., luckily nobody fatally injured.!
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