Touched

Someone touched her on her shoulder and stole her heartbeat for a moment, when she was all alone in the dark.

In a night, when silence was played on the roofs together with the dog who swayed his tail like a choirmaster’s hands.

“Manu” she fell into his arms.

“You are so cold”, he said in her ears.

He pulled her to his heart and touched her nose with his, like bulls with the horns. He made her laugh.

 “Come let’s go before someone sees us”

“The night will cover us don’t worry”

Holding his hand she said “let’s run”.

Behind them slept two homes under the watch of two glowing lights on the car porch. Now they have walked beyond the reach of lights.

“Where are you taking me?” he said with panting.

“I will show you the naked moon” she sniggered and ran.

There was no smell of humans in the air, in fact they both smelled like flowers. As they moved, the frogs climbed their legs like a tree, birds made nests on their head and soil waited for them to halt so that it can take roots from their veins.

“I can’t run i am tired” he said, also wondered how she can run so fast and feel not tired. But she didn’t hear him. Her ears were filled with music.

He doesn’t share her passion, he thought. Is there really anything that I know about her? A cold loneliness pulsated in him. For a moment he feared her. He feared her difference.

At distance he saw her fading. he began to doubt whether her light was a shadow.

The night was so thick so the light reflected back. Birds cried constantly nature didn’t allow them to sleep. He picked few stones and threw at darkness. But it remained the same.

He waited and at last he cried. “Arundhathi” he called.

He ran to find her like a leaf broken from branch and suddenly caught in the wind.

She was sitting on a rock, in front of her there was a big cliff, the moon stood near to her unclothed. She got up and walked towards the cliff and imagined her falling in and being ever lost in darkness. she is not sure if she can trust him. She is followed by darkness and she walks into darkness. She decided to jump.

Now, two hands coiled around her from behind and kissed her on her cheek.