The Stolen Moment !

                             The lady had a withheld witchy expression on her face that reminded me of the Psychics. The long hair, Shiny nose ring and the antique jewels made her totally look like someone on a visit from the 10th century. The most attractive feature was her long nose which reminded me of Rema chitta ; adored with a lustrously shiny nose ring studded with a series of stones, a mix of ruby and some unknown whitestones. The browny stone studded necklace had a white human skull pendant at the centre that made her scary long figure much scarier. The long stick in her hand and the shaggy cloth bag on her shoulders imparted a nomadic look to her. She carelessly uttered strange words when she came near me. I couldn’t make out what she meant. It seemed to be of some other language. Was it my curiously wider eyes or my observations that caught her attention? I really don’t have a clue what it was.

                              She bent towards me and smiled; her alternate red and yellowy stained teeth showcasing a perfect glee. I was kinda astonished, kinda scared. In a second, my reflexes were in vogue and I was taken aback. This lady whom I have been observing nearly from the time she entered the park, to be exact for the past ten minutes, of whom I had no idea who she was, was behaving like She knew me from time immemorial. Like in a meet up after so long, she holded my hands and smiled. I was totally scared, still a part of me was curious, anxious and playful. I literally smiled at her. She said nothing. Still those red-yellowy stained teeth holded that gleeful smile. I wondered what was happening. She was staring at me,that smile still lingering on her face. I noticed a sparkle in her eyes, the sparkle that reminds you of a baby. In a minute she loosened her hands, got up and started to walk forward. I couldn’t make out what she meant. A whole lot of efforts for interpretation ran a riot in my head. I wanted to call her back and ask something. But in-spite of my efforts my voice seemed to be blocked in the throat. I couldn’t utter a word. What would it mean for a Psychic to sit next to you, hold your hands and smile at you for a couple of minutes and to walk away without a word,just like that?

                              A totally indifferent feel encompassed me. As my thoughts got strangled, she had walked a few steps ahead. In a fraction of seconds she turned back. With the same gleeful smile on her face, she raised her stick and uttered aloud.

“ Jindagi ki asli udaan abhi baaki hai
Jindagi ke kai imtehan abhi baaki hai
Abhi to naapi hai mutthi bhar zamin tumne
Abhi to sara aasman baaki hai

Mushkile dilo ke iraade azmayegi
Khwaabo ke parde nigaaho se hatayegi
Girkar tujhe hai smabhalna
Yeh thokaren hi tujhe chalna sikhayegi “

                                 With that she smiled at me once more, her eyes sparkling like a diamond. The sparkle of her eyes said, they had the unique power to read the minds. And I strongly felt like she had read my secrets; the one’s buried deep within. I felt like an open book, sitting staring at her fragile figure. In-spite of her wrinkled face and shabby clothes, she seemed quite young now, and to mention not that scary too. I felt an aura surrounding her. She turned and walked ahead. I felt the euphoria of a bird being freed from the cages. Still My heart ached for something unknown. Was it the salty past or the peppery future that bothered me all these days? I wondered. Any-how at that moment, I felt nothing. The bliss feel. Those scrambled urdu words from an utter stranger made my ever out-bursting emotions settle and I felt extremely relaxed and vehemently inspired.Surprising It was ! I felt like she was sent to me from the heavens. Coz at that time, that moment of my Life had to have her in it without which it would have lost its significance. Yes they said it right, ‘who knows when You would come across special people in your life who will say all those right words at the right moment, keep you on your seventh heaven of realisation and just vanish away from you, just like a breath’. I sat there staring at the horizons for long, without those mixed feelings of self-guilt and agony reigning my mind for the first time after so many long months, soaked the in the glow of the evening Sun.