An Old Face from Years Gone by............

I was shopping at the pasar malam in Section 17 this evening for fruits and vegetables when I chanced upon a vaguely familiar face of days gone by. For a moment our eyes locked and then I turned away.

There was no great benefit in feigning friendship again because there never was one with people such as these from the very start. They were the high and mighty of yesteryear dictating their narrow personal values on others. Promotion came easy to these bigots as Peter would have it, he was promoted duly to the level of his utmost inefficiency.

This time he was sitting on a sensitive post. It did not last long. His own people saw through him and got rid of him pronto. I guessed from his looks and attire, he is a pensioner and just like me,with the grace of God, eking and scratching out a normal layman living with each waking day.

Heartsong