Kiss

     

      The night was dark and young. The stars shone brightly in the clear sky and awaited the moon to join them. There was chill in the air and the wind brought in the shiver. So many times I have been out at night. Each night has a different texture, different flavour and different music, but I was too preoccupied to notice any thing of it. The road was not the smoothest ever constructed in a far off place, amidst the huge mountains. It had its curves, twists and turns, ups and down, but still it was the only way out from the desolate place.

        The jolt was sudden and strong enough to throw me off in to a different world. Contrary to the freezing cold, it was warm, cosy and comfortable with a delicate breeze across the face. The perfume carried by the breeze was exotic and attractive. A faint music played at the backdrop as if some orchestra was on in some distance inside the gates.  I could see someone in the dark. She stood there with her arms wide open at the main gate. Her vibes were so strong, that I felt being pulled closer towards her as a magnet would do so. In the darkness, I could not see her clearly but her mystic aura was powerful enough to draw me closer towards her. 

        Though mesmerized and enchanted by the romantic surroundings and her beauty, some thing was holding me back. The way an anchor holds on the drifting ship similarly some anchor was holding me back. But her mystic charm was so strong that I wasn't able hold myself. With each inch I moved ahead, I was breaking the barriers, may be trying to get free from the anchor. The moment I reached closer to her, my arms opened for the warm hug and my lips pouted for the eternal kiss. I don't think I saw her in detail. I could not hear any thing else except my heavy breathing over the never so loud heartbeats. May be over the years I had forgotten that I too have a heart, which can beat louder than anything. The breaths were deep and strong. There were no thoughts in my mind and very unlike me I had lost my sense of direction. Though in a strange place, I wasn’t an alien. The thought of regaining back my composure never cropped up and I was finding peace in the drift. 

       Soon I was in her arms. I hugged her tight and kissed her. From the slow drift, I could feel myself being melted into a sublime vapour. The kiss was intense and passionate. Never in my life I was kissed with such a deep passion and love. I never wanted to break the lip lock and continue to taste the nectar. I could feel her intensity and passion for me. The kiss had an urge as if we were waiting for ages to unite. Though from different worlds we were finding solace and happiness within each other. I could feel how easily I was communicating to her without even speaking a word, unwinding my feelings, my emotions, pouring my heart. I felt the strong connect with her as if the lips had all the nerve points, which could be connected as in the movie AVATAR. May be in that short time I was communicating my entire life, my likes- dislikes, my happiness and my sorrows, my glories and my worries, my gains and my pains. She was absorbing each and every iota of mine as if she was quenching her thirst drinking through my lips. With each passing moment I was feeling the transfer of energies making me feel lighter than ether. For so many years, I had gathered so much in my mind, that the nerves were getting relieved as the knots started opening and straightening out. The feel was incomparable to any thing I had experienced so far. I was just transcending from a rigid solid form to a more volatile and free vapour. It was a bliss never experienced.

      Suddenly, I stopped and withdrew a bit, as if everything came to a screeching halt. I was trying to regain my lost conscious. She in her deep voice said, there is a battle inside you, which is holding you back. Yes, subconsciously I was holding myself back. I wasn't ready for such a huge transition. Though I was enjoying the feel, but I had so many things in my mind, a long list of to-do things, I had not even bid farewell to my beloved. My daughter was sleeping when I had left the house and I had promised to buy a birthday gift to my son. The doctor’s appointment for my wife was scheduled in the morning and I had to call my boss as soon I reach back. Why I was there so early and had so many unaccomplished missions. I cannot die.

        I turned back and jumped off the edge. I landed on the hard surface with a thud with blood all over me. I started feeling the chill in the air and the only thing warm, lying injured on the cold metalled road was my oozing blood. I was back to place where I belonged, where I could smell the dust in the air and feel the chill in wind blowing across my numb face. I tried to feel my lips, they were numb and they had lost the sensation. They were wet with blood. My injuries pained as I was evacuated to the hospital. I survived.