Yes .. she could be seen..
From the little crevice.. where the infinite had once been..
It was her dark torso..
Entangled in the hands of blinding light..
Being followed in the lanes of her murk and mess..
She slowed down her steps..
Hoping to fade off unseen..
She melted off..frightened of her own being..
Clueless she walked..
Deaf with years of mourning..
Each night another void..
She couldn’t stop..she wanted to..
Maybe then..her veil fell off ..
For a moment her eyes met the hazel around..
Not more than a glimpse..
But more than enough..
A new way to trust.. she felt her blood..
This time within her veins..
She was in a strange land..
An uncanny alien feel..
The air known somehow..
She pulled back her veil..
The lanes now crossed..
From nowhere to nothing..
Stuck in her own conundrum..
Melting in all possible directions..
Dissolved in foreign realms..
Exhausted she was..
Out of breath..
Somehow ..
She had lost it all..
And she did not know why..
Yet another turn..
Yet another breath..
Numb now…
She stood amidst the unknown..
Hoping for a hand..
She moved along alone..
Another stolen breath..
She reached out for her pyre..
Praying for an end..
Struggling with own blood..
The unchaste passions now overwhelmed..
The stench of her sins strangulating now..
She was burning.. it was unbearably cold..
And then it happened..
The forgotten..
Something she had vouched against..
The sting gave way to some sensation..
Another beginning when she thought it would end..
Crawling through the crippled lanes..
She hoped she’d make through..
The lanes engulfed every possible bit of hope..
The wilderment underneath a lesson..
Every story a piece of trust falling as it broke..
The fears in shape now..
She stood nowhere somehow..
Yet a face stared back at her..
No words..no thoughts..
She hated not being alone…
She wanted her void back..
Her hands stained once forever
New words were frightening.. she refuted anything they could mean
She stepped back..
Exposing her frame in the imposing lights..
She did not have a shadow.. she was neither black..nor white..
She looked at the shadow right next to her..
She stared at the traces of moving life..
Deafening thunders..
A hundred reasons for it to not be right..
The ground of reasoning she had finally learnt to walk on.. trembled once again..
No matter what she vouched to hold on tight…
Times came..she wanted to scream..
She chose silence for a little more while..
She wanted to let go..
She couldn’t ..
Do not know who stole the words right off her mouth..
The bitterness she had so laboriously gathered started to fade..
It felt nice somehow..
She did not want it to..
Tried a lot.. the veil wouldn’t come along..
It wouldn’t stop the flutter..
It wouldn’t stay in place anyhow..
She couldn’t see why..
Why it didn’t matter..
The scars on her face exposed..
She was scared.. she could feel someone near..
The silence did not threaten with any storm now..
Her eyes uncomfortable with the gentle green..
As the landscape brought back colours somehow..
She turned away..Yet again sun light..
Her bowed head stealing strength ..
Her hands now raised..the heavens blessed..
The clouds with unreasoned joys…
The downpour was ecstatic..
A happy victim..
She ripped off every bit of the veil..
A smile drove past the face in front..
She smiled through her tears too..
She closed her eyes.. her leap of faith..
She stepped out in the rain again..
The ground beneath her gave away to clouds..
The infinites now calmer..
A lightning bolt brought her closer to his embrace..
She felt his power.. she felt her pain..
Each sin fading off into a promise of forgiveness..
She gave her hands..he rubbed off the stains..
She closed her eyes.. the dreams.. the rain
Finally her heart smiled ..
The deciphered lanes..
At last.. she could breathe.. for she lived again…
