Random Expressions

(Since I mentioned a previous nightmare in the last post, I am re-publishing an entry from my previous blog, Initially, the post was published on 20.08.05)

I am alone. I am lonely. Something is bothering the heart. I cannot place it. I am on this main road. A famous one. Darbar Marg. It is raining. It is night. There is no one on the road. Across, in the middle, there is a fountain. Somone is standing with an umbrella. I know that person. I dont go towards him. But sing aloud enough to attract attention. I want the person to know my presence but simultaneously dont want to talk to him.

I enter a shop. A showroom. It is open. It has a way through a door to adjacent shop. I wasnt aware of this. The entire effect is surreal. Sleep interrupts. I am walking through connecting doors. I am at a urinal. I can feel the liquid gurgle in my bladders. I dont stop. I notice another door.

Again sleep intervenes. Haze.

Door opens to a five star hotel lobby. Plush. If I was correctly following the way between the shops, I know this hotel. It looks different. This is plush. Polished marbles. Uber large but comfortable waiting seats. I move out of huge revolving doors. The city outside looks different. No rain. It is twilight. I see a green-yellow bus. DTC. The flyover is four-lane. It is smooth. It is wide. I stop a passerby. Which city is this? He looks curiously at me, and grunts - Delhi. I am shocked. How did I reach here? But Delhi looks different. I curiously view the hotel name. Taj Le Meridien. Merger of two large chains. When did this happen? I ask same passerby - what date and year? 2015, he replies gruffly and walks off. I stare dumbly behind him. I turn. I catch my reflection on the polished granite of hotel wall. My face is not mine.

(Courtesy - Juneli, for reminding me the exact date of the original entry)

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