Encounters with Reality

(these are not my words. this are shadows from 'GRACE'.) Here, dear, here, In this evening light which makes these woods disconsolate, I sing hymns of divine condolence. Flowers of final sunrays are engulfed In the vagrant waves of sea… Where they go? Where?

He was happy when he sat at window. It was 2 p.m. and rains are playing their usual wait game. City is too humid and too hot to walk in the afternoon. He was roaming from morning 8, he had visited lot of shops trying to sell his product. And as he was sure of the outcome, he was returning home to have his lunch and to provide some false hopes to his daughter, who regularly inquires about new mobile he has promised to her. He remembered the way she insisted on having mobile with him. She said father of her every friend has mobile and how they call their father in the evening to be at home as early as possible. When he made a sure-looking defend that how can she call him as they have no phone at home. To his surprise and then a knock on whatever self-esteem he has, his daughter replied, “ Viju(the college going son of his neighbor) has a phone by which he can make free calls on particular network. You will purchase that phone only. It is cheap and it is colorful. It has even fm too. You...

Her hands touched his face, linearly on cheeks, then a touch vanishing quickly to his nose tip. He realized quickening of his heartbeats, butterflies in stomach and something emerging even below that. He closed eyes unknowingly. “What will you acknowledge as greatest pleasure?” her voice, deep, mystic echoed in his ears. Sound of pouring liquor in glass followed. He thought, whether it is comfort of being in well-furnished flat, or sense of having huge amount as wealth or a pleasant company. Then he realized, nothing of it matters against that great game of two human beings. That magnetism never felt before, the force that brings you closer and closer, and then a rhythm you feel, a coherence of all actions and then a moment where everything freezes, a blast, a rapture, sense of being above all senses and then an endless fall into nowhere. That is it, pleasure, and greatest pleasure! “Ha! Ha!! I know what is your answer, but yet I like you speak it, you dare to see that this is wh...