Arunoday Singh

I was dreaming with eyes awake, floating on a river of laughs.  A river that did not run, but strolled through the forest, and only by the light of the moon, far from the tyranny of the midday sun.  By day we were quiet, both me and river, quiet as the sound of a broken guitar held in unfamiliar hands.

My hand leads no pen to the dance, across the music of the page.  Instead my fingers, like petulant children, throw tantrums across a keyboard, their staccato wailing producing naught.  I should return to the pen, and our old familiar tangos, when the empty page was music enough.

The world is faster than I want to run, louder than I care to hear, and smells like all the things that squeeze me like a canister of bile.  They killed Michael Jackson.  I don’t care what the reports say, I don’t care how they say it happened.  THEY killed him long before the twenty-fifth of June.  They killed him by laughing, they killed him with envy, they killed him with misunderstanding, they killed him with scorn, they killed him with success.  The bright ones cannot live long in this darkling world.  They shine too bright for the rest of us.  And so inevitably we smother them.  We do not mean to.  We simply want to stand closer to their light, bathed in their warmth, in their passion, never realizing that by doing so we are choking them away.

Every month I go through a few days of darkness, where all I see and all I touch is as ash.  Today was the last of the dark days.  Tomorrow, the light rises in my mind.  I can already feel it’s coming, feel it like I’m waiting for my love to walk off that plane that just landed.

There are so many things I wish to speak of, so many questions I wish to pose, and epiphanies to share.  But I shall refrain for now.  I want my words only birthed during my days of light.  And so I shall write again, soon.  Until then I just wish to say two things.

1) “Sikandar” releases on August 21

2) An alternative portal to this blog is sufisoulselective.blogspot.com

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