A Letter You Never Received.

This isn't about the dice game, the court or the war.
Its about your last walk...

That final journey, that path toward heaven...Heart-wrenching.
Walking with the five glorious men, your husbands.
One fall...And you were cast aside.

Your presence? A distraction to their salvation,
said the learned Yudhishthira.
The others? They followed suit.

You had hoped, at least one would flinch.
How naive.
Not a glance. No guilt.
Just fading footsteps...
Their backs, your final glimpse.

You lay in the mountain dust...Somewhere on Mount Sumeru,
frozen, bleeding, reflecting; Life flashing before you,
the innocence, the love,
the vows, the betrayals,
the weight, the wounds...Was it all just an illusion?

At this moment, the fire in you, finally at peace.
Your only constant, a witness to your grief,
your invisible sakha.
Rescuing you, carrying you gently and setting you free.

It was time.....
You had surpassed the expectations, not just fulfilled your duties!

Forgive this world, my dear Draupadi.
I would’ve said, you were tested in fire...
but how wrong I’d be.

At times, I wish I could pull you out,
from each sentence, each chapter, and that excruciating pain
But that would mean undoing the very strength you became.
You endured what fierce fire couldn’t survive.

And this…is a letter owed to you.
A letter you never received.