Monday, February 21, 2011

The Haunting...

A cool,Thursday afternoon... Returning home from a long, tiring day at work... What could go wrong?

Weekend approaches..

Plans set- catch up with friends, watch a few movies- among them!

Humming a nondescript tune,I felt something was amiss...

Skin pricked by invisible needles, the same feeling when you hear a creaky door on a nightmarish rainy night at a desolate house....

I sensed it. Like a viper springing out of the bushes, it made its eerie presence felt. But it didn't strike..

I could hear the chirp of the birds, warning me to watch my step.. They somehow, seemed to know it was following me.. "How could they tell?" I wondered...

Stalking me,it was, like a crouching tiger ready to snare its prey... waiting to take over me...

I tried to lose it, in vain... I just couldn't....

I was now cheerless, like the waning sun... The very thought of it made me unsettled... I had still so much to do, It couldn't be like this!

My head ached earlier.. but now it was as if someone was using my head as a darts board... then those darts turned into spears...

Pain, unbearable..

My mind, My heart, my legs, my eyes among others... all looked inward at me as if I betrayed them... "How could you do this to us? after we've served you all throughout "

True, they did... I didn't realize that it was me who caused this situation to unfold....

I guess, sometimes, you just have to lose some battles... because you just cannot fight phenomenon like this..

I let go... and suddenly, my throbbing veins of poisonous pain metamorphosised into a nectar-filled pathway of redemption...

I had lost against it, my world turning dark... my eyes, who were red with anger till now, said "It had to happen... let go"

Nacreous light took over... I didn't want to understand what I felt,

So beautiful, So calm! It seemed just so... right, so correct...

It finally got to me.... It didn't strike at me, but instead it seemed to put its arms around me like a long lost friend...

It took me away from this world and the reality that circled it,

Like an Out of body experience within the boundaries of the human soul,

It was 4: 30 hours post meridiem....

and I was now,
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Asleep!