Thursday 17 January 2013

"Ecstatically Yours"


It’s been a long time since I wrote anything sensible here in my blog. The cold, the stress or perhaps the ‘jumbled-up-thoughts-failing-to-fall-into-place’ situation has got my skull jammed somewhere at some part. So there’s an urgent need to de-clutter or I better put it this way : urgent need to write something. The following piece was intended to be kinda romantic. But I can't help if it turns out to be too childish. Please feel free to comment if it does. Well, there's always a chance for improvement, na. ;)





Oh! Be practical, brat. He spoke to himself. Taking a giant leap from the bed to the couch, he could not hold himself back from feeling ‘lazy-cum-dumb’. All he wanted to do was lay flat on the bed and stare at the vast emptiness and revise that scene again in his mind. Feeling like an idiot is easy he thought, being one is easier. Why was he turning out to be an emotional fool, of late? Or is ‘romantic’ the appropriate word. ‘Nah’ he brushed aside the word from his train of thoughts and held the pillow tighter and made a concerted attempt to rest his ‘brimming-with-sparks’ eyes for a few minutes at least.




She was busy-copying the last lines of the class notes that she had missed the previous day. Actually, her hands were. Her mind was way deflected from the realms of redox reactions and their balancing. As she scribbled a few wrong words, slapped her forehead for making a silly mistake even while copying stuff; she realized it was no good making a vain attempt to sit back on the table. A leap of the heart every now and then, the feeling of sinking into a bed of molten lava of emotions-not burning hot, but exuding a comforting warmth.


If only they knew that they had been ruling each other’s thoughts for the past few days. Boarding school churns out the life out of its students at times. Being sophomores and having a crush is no big deal. Well, these days, even toddlers of class one boast of having a boyfriend or girlfriend. Funny! But cute. If only they knew what’s it all about.



...........Had it been any of his friends, he would have typed one random paragraph embellished with a word or two speaking of ‘how much he loved her’ and ‘how much he missed her’ without really weighing the pounds those words carried. And the lines would’ve come out as romantically poetic when flashed as an update in facebook. So easy.

But he did write something for her:


"When I saw you for the first time,
Deep inside there’s a rush
‘cause the possibility
That you would ever feel the same way
It’s too much
Just too much
Why do I keep running from the truth?
All I ever think about is you
You got me hypnotized, so mesmerized
And I’ve just got to know
Do you ever think
When you’re all alone
All that we could be?
Where this thing could go?
Am I crazy or falling in love??
Do you catch a breath when I look at you
Are you holding back like the way I do?
‘Cause I’m trying, trying to walk away
But I know this crush ain’t going away..."


[P.S: These lines are copied from a song, although I played with a few words here and there. The first time I went through its lyrics, I loved it straight away. So,an attempt to imbibe it in a blog post. ] 


She responded:
"This crush ain’t going away ‘cause this crush gonna stay forever. You don’t seem crazy when you look at me. Why does it make me feel as if you are as much in love with me as I am with you…
Ecstatically yours………"


The irony: the means of communication failed !
The boy wrote those lines on the wall of the boy’s toilet.
The girl ended up spoiling her new ball point pen by scribbling the above words on the faded wall of the girl’s toilet.


Every year hence, girls of DAV Public School read those words smeared across the pale wall while entering the wash room. The boys do the same, wondering who was the modern Shakespeare who could dare to bear the stench of the toilet for a good amount of time and compose an entire poem sitting there ;)


[P.P.S:
Something worthy to note. Why do people make scratches on wash room walls (mostly in schools), walls of old monuments, etc writing ‘I love you’ or the like? Don’t they have better places to write or can’t they just use that texting option in their mobile phones to do so and send the message to whosoever they desire to rather than dirtying these walls. ;) ]