Friday, March 27, 2009

Them.

They stood face to face in a room in the middle of nowhere. Alone. The rain beat down on them, drumming against the rooftop. The utterly dark sky insulated them against the universe.
He watched her walk towards him. She was to him the eye of a tornado, with emotions swirling around her in a mad frenzy. She seemed like a wild animal- an outsider. They were two of a kind. She told him that she will give him everything he needed and then she will take it all away from him. She offered to show him how to be alive but told him that she will also give him death. He trembled, afraid of her. She agonized over his apparent agony. They looked at each other. To take the plunge or not? She asked him to take the death-leap with her. He backed away. He got ready to escape.

When she held out her hand to him, he took it.

3 comments:

Sumira said...

Bless you. There is so much pain in those words.

The Other Life. said...

The words are mostly empty. Hollow shells. You infuse them with your own pain. :(

Sumira said...

:( The pain that can be felt, even if for a brief moment, by the reader as well.