The white expanse gave way to a majestic view-a view
that almost made my heart skip a beat, as i stared on, abused by surprise. But
how did i come here?? All I remembered was the truck snorting towards me with
pulsating beeps and then I saw darkness. OMG! Am I dead?..Is this Heaven? Frankly
speaking, i didn't know what to feel then-the obnoxious realization of broken
dreams that could have been substantiated were I alive, or the joy of seeing
the sudden platter of carved imaginations taking form before my eyes. You see
when you face such a situation where the drivers in your head put up a fight as
to which road of emotion they should drive you to, you have nothing else to do
other than "do nothing!" :D
Anyway a soothing wing floated me to the shade of a tree,
or the King of Trees-it was humongous and had eyes and a mouth. Each leaf of
the tree was as large as my face, with beautiful crypto graphical designs etched
on it. It housed a wide array of fruits-apples, oranges, watermelon, grapes and
one could gauge the quality of the fruits by simply glancing at them-big,
sparkling in sunshine with bright colours. Yes, all fruits at the same place, you
read it right!!..The leaves of the trees swayed and rustled and it appeared as
if a giant lion was shaking his majestic mane in broad daylight, only the mane
was deep green. I stood there open-mouthed, scanning each part of this King
cause that was all that could be done-stand, admire and marvel!! Though my eyes
argued with me like a child of six, still i dragged them away somehow to notice
this Kingdom as its newest member.
Deep into the horizon, I saw a range of mountains,
each so huge that I almost had to turn my head upwards to make a right angle in
order to try and view the top..Seen Mt.Everest? well these were higher and each
wore a different colour. After careful investigation it struck me that the
colours followed the pattern of the rainbow-VIBGYOR..No sooner had I thought of
a rainbow, a rainbow appeared and amazing as it sounds I saw kids with
glittering faces slide down from the very top into a puddle of chocolate. Their
faces gleamed as if they had diamonds ( Think Twilight and Yes! These kids looked much more shinier
than Edward Cullen) :P.The valley was architected by imaginations. It appeared
different to different inhabitants and changed colours, patterns and weather
based upon the thought pattern of its people.
As soon as the realization set in that all my
imaginations would see the light of the day,there was but one thing to
do-imagine!imagine!imagine!..And lo! as if the magician had waved his
wand,three luxurious cars appeared out of thin air-a Mercedes,a BMW and a Audi
r8..
“Yipee!!” I screamed,prancing like a colt, and went
closer to examine these “beauties”..After gulping down this sheer joy,my
stomach made a “grrrr” sound-well normally people would call it the call of
hunger , but I called it the call of digesting too much joy and and not being
able to imbibe and eat more..But somewhere in my colourful mind I might have
thought of food,as I saw my favourite Chinese dishes embroidered with parsley
leaves,laid on an intricated, etched platter-each piece of chicken the size of
my fist..The more I ate,the more it appeared.Suddenly when I was saturated with
these contemplated musings,I closed my eyes for a second and started
retrospecting for no reason whatsoever!!!
Suddenly, when the lid of my eye lifted,the sight that
awaited me was one that left me flabbergasted. Black balloons floated in the
air,each carrying the tag name of my past failure and they were hovering and
bobbing up and down in the air.I didn’t know what to do with them and was thus
reduced to scratching my head..These happened for quite some time,and my deep
dark secrets that I left behind in the past starting taking shape of a balloon
and added to the line.This angered me and with crooked eye-brows I imagined
myself a gun and ho!! A pistol lay infront..Taking it up,I shot them one by one
and with every shot,I felt lighter and lighter and lighter..The last balloon
took three hits and I felt like a feather,as if I was only made of flesh and no
bone nor any organ..Grief let go of me and I was the King of my own self at
last.
I became in plain words, “mad” for a phase after that
as finally I was living in the utopia I had carved for myself!! ..Dancing with
an imaginary conceived angel,I hopped,leapt and made a fun of myself,ran care
free cause atlast I was in Heaven.
Free!
Free from the drudgery of daily life,
Free from pugnacious elements,
Free from politics ,
Free from pain
And above all
Free to be precocious at will.
No sooner did this great feeling overwhelmed my stature and sent
a chill run down my spine,than I felt a splash!!..And then another!!..I cleared
my eyes only to find my dear mother trying to wake me up from sleep : “Get
up,you idiot! Its almost 11.30am!!..How long will you sleep??”..
i woke up,sad that I hadn’t died….
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