Monday 9 July 2007

Drowning...


"There are moments which you would not rather exist in. Hating is terribly exhausting."
Walking along the cold Thames, he was kidding himself. He kept telling himself that he would rather not exist in certain moments but he knew he would rather be able to live through all of them.
You see, he loved to think of himself as a survivor. Flatter would be right word.
His hands shook a lot. Shiver would be the right word.
He wasnt ever a smoker. He detested the stench of it in his clothes. But hating is a full time job and on overdrive. It can consume you.
A cold smile cracked on his unmarked below ordinary face. Lips were chapped and He bit his skin of and tasted blood. He was laughing his head of at what he just thought. Hate can consume... He hated his talking crap to himself.
He wanted to shout. He tried and tried but didnt. A scream, just one scream.
He stood on the railing of the bridge. He was terrified.
He took in a deep breath. The steady drizzle didnt bother him as he saw people all around him running for cover or running with a cover.
He had been living with a constant ache for sometime now. No matter what he always had it. Each time he sneezed it felt that his head finally cleared. That half a moment his face would rid itself of the constant frown.
The drizzle had grown to be rain. He was shivering with inadequacy more than the cold. His long unruly hair were all over his face plastered.
It felt like he was in a vacuum.
Thames is quite dirty, he thought.
He let himself fall into the mucky black rain spattered surface of Thames thinking
it cant be close to Ganga's toxic flow.
It was cold. It was breath taking cold. It wasnt a very high drop but it hurt. As his limp form broke the surface of water he realised that he had never heard of any swimmer having drowned. May be I can prove the world wrong. But he wasnt here to drown.
He didnt attempt to keep the water out. His eyes were stinging. his lungs were burning but there was absolute silence. Complete silence.
He could see the pattern the rain was making on the surface while he was going deeper. He would be coming up soon. Wasnt it something to do with physics?
A naked guy ran to his king and that fame...
He opened his mouth ina scream as the water rushed in he could feel the bile come up and greet the dirt. The loudest silent scream.
He walked back on the side of the Thames. Drenched and stinking. The sun shining bright as if it had been here all along.
Hating is a full time occupation. A dead smile plastered on his forgettable face. A shiver, a sigh.
He left a trail for the sun to dry.

7 comments:

Me Thinks.. said...

'The Loudest Silent scream' brilliant use of words...

I think u shud call it that...

and therefore we have another 'he' disgusted with himself...

nice ending again...mr storyteller...

Me Thinks.. said...

PS nice pic..

DreamCatcher said...

oh man!! do i have enuf words to justify the skill u have..naa..

Hating is a full time occupation
perfect.!!

u knw u jst gave me a feel of what i m writing..

Pavitra said...

You never walk alone...never.

No matter how lonely you feel.

I've said it before and I mean it with full conviction that a thinker never walks alone...there are always those who love, admire, respect, hate and despise him.

Always.

The ones that care only need to be acknowledged the other ignored...that is what they call perspective. Its easier said than done. But with a conscious like this which is capable of such self mockery, he isn't alone. He cannot be.

Phoenix said...

Nicely written. Enough hatred, indifference and chuckles at the terrifying knowledge to scare the reader. But there are no moments one would rather not exist in. Living, more than hating, is a full time occupation and needs all muck, blood and sweat to decorate itself.
Complete itself would be the right word.

Anand Sarolkar said...

"The Loudest Silent Scream"

MT has already commented on this. Never the less I will speak my mind. This is pure magic of words!

Questioning Pricky...
Poet Pricky...
Storyteller Pricky...

Kudos Pricky...Kudos!

Jupiter Iris said...

The Thames was enthralled by this sudden encounter. But he thought he knew better. Only his face was not forgettable. And it remained printed in the mucky mirror of that moment.
The sun responded to the silent scream immediately after the exclamation mark splashed out from his head with his crispest thoughts. Against his self consciousness and sense of 'reality', there stood the Hazard, with a backpack full of sunny, beautiful and nerve racking jokes for his immediate future. It was his guardian, aimed to make him insecure about his insecurity.