A Dream.....

A trembling voice called me from behind. The voice was frail and bland. It was like any other sound which goes unnoticed, something which you don’t care for, like a rodent lying crushed at the corner of the road, like a flickering street light. But i found my neck swivelling in the direction of the voice. There was a woman, her skin was like a ripple on water, her teeth jagged, her dimpled cheeks: a grim reminder of her struggle, her clothes half-torn and dishevelled heaving an odour which was a mix of perspiration and fish oil, her perforated shawl revealing more than it covered. Her face resembling a quintessential widow of a blockbuster. Her eyes were cold and white. They were like stones lying on the beach : forlorn, plain and pure. Her tousled hair undulated intermittently like a hoisted flag.
“ Ji? “ the only word i could force out .
“ Yass beta tu mujhse milne nahi aaya” she snapped. The reply was stark and smooth, shorn of pretence and effort. The words hung before me like a white haze in the night sky.
She was clearly possessed.
The words were reminiscent of someone.......someone who has moulded my life..........someone who held my hands firmly and showed me the right path........someone who prayed for me day and night........

But why was he complaining ?
Where was i supposed to be ?
Why was i not there ?

Perhaps I am too afraid to think of the answers.

My Dream Girl

As the pale mist rises against the backdrop of an inky void, as the calm breeze whizzes past the ear, wiping out the last drop of sweat behind and setting off a subtle tingle of cold, as the winter moon shimmers through the placid water pond at the foot of the steel-like stairs; a heavenly figure emanating a glow, a glow bright enough to scorch the sun, slowly walks down. As the figure files down, the stairs produce a sweet sound as if welcoming her. The mist starts to wear thin as she walks further down. All of a sudden the wind stops, the clanking dissolves in the void,as she touched the water. She, whom I always dreamt of, has finally walked down from the heaven for me. The divine touch produced ripples, one like never seen before. They head towards my direction, proclaiming the arrival of my dream girl. She was barely twenty metres away from me but the glow prevented me from seeing her. I squinted through but failed.
Now came the time-stopping moment, a moment i probably waited for years, a moment probably for which i was born for. The glow began to dim, slowly revealing her.

Suddenly something happened , i heard myself spewing out a girlish squeal, shattering the equanimity of the place to bits.....I found myself getting drowned into a maelstrom of an invisible fluid, the more it took me deeper the more i choked...... Then everything went black.....

A shrill sound made me open up my eyes and i saw my cell....buzzing off like an excited hamster.....

Then the harsh realization dawned upon me........My alarm went off.......