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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