THE STALKER

The face haunted him .It was a beautiful charming masculine face,born to rule and hypnotise anybody but very much scary at the same time .He felt a wild familiarity with the young owner of that mesmerizing eyes and satirical smile.Where had he met him last?;he couldn’t locate.This angelic satan has been following him at a safe distance for the last 5 minutes.He felt distinctively uncomfortable.When he looked back again there was no trace of him.He just seemed to vanish in the crowd.The face couldn’t be deleted from his mind though .When he slept that night it tormented him even in his dreams.
He had almost forgotten that incident when two months later when he was in his morning walk he suddenly felt an annoying foreign presence behind him and turning back his gaze was locked by the smiling ,stunning face.He felt totally undressed and a vague fear gripped his mind .He summoned his courage,stopped and mumbled “Have we met before ?”The young man continued his lazy walk smiling and waving his hand back as if mocking him .
Life continued and time didn’t stop and the humanity ran its never ending marathon .The next encounter occurred while he was driving at break neck speed while overtaking a truck and suddenly svered to avoid an incoming car and with a nasty blow on his back a voice thundered “Are you crazy ,you dumb fellow.”He turned his back and the angry face froze him to stillness.When he recovered the back seat was empty .
The now familiar face began haunting him and he was powerless in it’s onslaugh. The mind searched all its web sites and clicked on to History in chase of the eluding face and lo the google search began yielding results which came in torrents .Yes now every thing fell in the right track and he could distinctly remember that cool face which pushed him back from the edge of balcony when he tried to fly in to space after a dose of marihuana and once when he tried to cut his radial vessel following a reactive depression in the middle ages .
Who is HE and what right has he to interfere in his personal matter though done in his favour .The matter was put to rest in the hurry to suck dry the so called enjoyments and miseries in the big journey.The life took its toll and he mellowed in to the old ages when the body and the senses refused to be under his control and the sufferings and myriads of experiences failed to mature him and to be at peace unto himself .Of course the face did its duty of presenting before and behind him once in a while teasing ,tormenting,accusing and forgiving him but never once failing to enchanting him with its grace but at the same time panicking him .
Life turned its full cycle and while he lay staring in to the vaccum still yearning for more, suddenly, the face appeared and sitting besides him embraced him in its fold and he felt the joy of violent peace within himself .His eyes glowed with a drop of tear and he marveled at the FACE in its pristine glory and hummed “My everlasting friend reveal THEE to me “.IT laughed wickedly “I am the Protector ,the ultimate judge, and everyone lovingly call me DEATH” .


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