Yellow Melancholy

Wake up to receive notice to vacate apartment. Difficult times ahead.

Presentation due in an hour's time. Laptop battery dead. Editing work of at least half an hour unsaved.

Office shuttle cancelled.

Incessant rains. Life looks gloomy. Weather reflects it. Need to wade through water to work after water logging.

Decide to wear my lucky charm. A yellow saree gifted by Ma last birthday.
Yellow to me is happiness. Cheer. Positivity.

Desperate to believe that it will weave its magic today too. Like never before.

Take a yellow taxi to work. For added benefit.

Running late.
The yellow taxi spots a yellow light that slowly turns red.
Dead stop.

I look out of the window.

Smog engulfs the city.

My eyes fall upon a lonely yellow orange leaf stuck in the rusted wire railing.

Yellow is melancholy.