With my body bent into a stiff curve, legs drawn closer, I hid my face in the hollow formed by my posture. The stoned walls of that hall whose corner I had occupied spoke to each other in the silence about my presence. I stayed like that, until I fell asleep in the woods of those eerie thoughts I had lost my way in.
An acute touch on my shoulder disturbed my idea of remaining there till the end of time. I lifted my head to glare at the cause of it and there was a sudden transition of expression on my face.
He stood there, his face adorned with a smile that had lit up the entire place. He held his hand to pick me up from the pieces I had shattered into. And I heard the walls reverberate into a swirl of melodious music silencing their talk.
"Dance?", he had me bewitched heart and soul.
Before I could appreciate how my fingers had twined perfectly into the gaps of his hand, we were dancing-to and fro, back and forth, round and about. I tiptoed about him under the spotlight of his radiant glow. How our footworks followed the beats in sync amazed me less than the flair with which he danced. The only thing out of phase being my heart- pounding wild in its own rhythm. Enchanted by the dizziness of his very presence, I whirled as he spun me round him- the focus of my universe.
I was lifted off the ground into the air that had enthralled within it the smell of his perfume, and down I swung into his arm. His hand slid across my waist gripping me from falling off, sending me into jitters.
Magic happened when I fell deep into his eyes which rendered itself to be a night sky of twinkling stars. And just when I found a shooting star to wish upon, he said
"The pain is long gone,
You have been strong."
When I closed to open my eyes to reality, nothing had changed, except the perfume that lingered in my subconscious and the emotions that surged in my heart.
And the bubble of my imagination had burst.
"Someday", I blushed.
*Image sketched by Manasa C (:
