Across the hall the eyes meet
Locked as if frozen stuck
The view blurs all around
And time flees in freefall
As the focus zooms in
To the appearance, voice,
The gestures and smell.
They move forward prod
As if by an unseen hand
Till there they stood
Lost in the sea of humanity
With a cyclone rising in them
That threatened to drown
Them in the whirlpool
Of a swirling universe.
“He smells divine,
As divine as he looks”
As disorder hits a nerve,
“Why do I believe
I will cease to be
If not with him?”
Is he the faceless stranger
Who waits around the corner
In her lonely dreams?
“It is he!” she whispered with
Her heart now in her throat,
Is she in control of herself
As her heart beats fast
And her thoughts gallop?
Asudden they started talking
Words blurted out in animation
Incomplete sentences
That made no sense at all
And came the giggles
And then the candid laughter
As the rising warmth
Broke the ice and the distance.
© Nalini Hebbar/openmind/2009 - all rights reserved
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