Kannan Writes

Saturday, July 16, 2005

silence of the lamps

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SILENCE OF THE LAMPS



Suddenly it was as if thecurrent went off in the dead of night,only that it was not the lights but the SOUND..Not an iota of sound anywhere..Only the sound of silence all around..No more the whirring of the fan,no more the soft breaths of my partner.Am I going crazy?No I cant even hear my own breathing,no more the lub dup of my heart. The night mare has begun.The ghostly silence engulfs me .The sonic boom of silence was like the take off of a concorde to my ears.Yes I can see it .Its color - - yes now I am sure it’s pitch dark , utterly dark..I can smell it,a sweet deathly rotten odour.All my internal systems has come to a stand still except my sense organs and Awareness.Theire awareness is getting sharper and sharper by the minute and so my agony..The silence is churning my inside out like a tsunami..It pitches me deep down to the bowels of core of the mother earth..Now everything has started vibrating,the pitch is turning to a crescendo and the whole universe has started its deathly dance..Thesilence is howling.Yes I can see the cracks appearing in the windows and walls..The pressure inside the room is rising fast and crushes me underneath it.The room has now become a balloon about to burst.Swirling waters surround it..The silence suddenly lights up and shines like thousand suns.Its brilliance blinds me and the whole ME is drenched in its brilliance.I EXIST NO MORE.

Coffey says my wife.Iam jolted back to life. And for the first time Iam enjoying the sweet sounds of blaring of the temple speakers,the misfiring of a neighbours scooter and the terrible barking of the street dog..The joy of being is overwhelming..Now I turn to my sides and oh! I gasp.There I see a shapeless dark nothingness deep in the corner of my partly opened cup board.Yes there it is---the soulless SILENCE mocking at me and whispering---I AM THE THY WITHIN YOU.. .

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