Riding through the fog,
No friends, no family nearby,
Riding alone in the dark.
Crossing bridges and rivers,
having seen these sights before,
all familiar but yet distant,
Like from a life somewhere before.
I hit a road block,
few policemen surround,
"It's not safe here", they say,
"for a girl alone in the dark"
I have been here before, i say..
I had relatives here..
I have ridden high and low..
And finally im here.
Suddenly crashing sounds,
glass falling from everywhere,
on the opposite side of the street from us..
all the building, the windows were bare.
People emerged, from their homes,
Pearched at the window sill,
All faceless, all thinking,
all swaying with the wind.
A scream rings out..
A woman jumps..
Screaming her way down,
Falling flat on the road,
fallen face down.
and then it starts,
all together.. everyone jumping off,
screaming, falling, all face down,
not one face with fear found.
Then i see her..
at the same window..
as the first woman who jumped..
She screams out too..
but its with words..
not audible till she fell.
She screams to her mother,
Laying face down..
as she prepares to jump.
"Dont look up mother, dont look up.."
saying this she too fell..
She said this all the way..
All the way down..
not crying.. but confident,
falling face down.
I ran towards her as she fell,
The policemen stopped me in my tracks,
Let it happen, it was meant to be..
These people have no life.
I cry and i scream,
horrified and shellshocked
all in my mind, all for me.
Outside im calm and in control..
Im trying not to break down and get away from it all..
The girl finally falls,
Next to her mother..
The screaming stops,
and the falling ceases.
I look up at the windows..
all empty and bare.
I look down at the bodies
all faceless and uncared.
A child comes out, out of that same window..
I pray and i pray, for her to just stay.
Scared and sweating, i scream "dont jump"
The child looks at me and just smiles.
I wake up.
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