One day I would just be walking alone, not knowing anyone
around.
No friend, nor foe! Everyone has disappeared; don’t know
where they have gone.
I see empty roads, long deserted, dead.
I feel like I’m inside a box, or an aeroplane with 500 empty
seats hung in the sky, closed and buried.
There are only a few passers-by. They don’t recognize me,
nor look in the eye.
I say hello, they don’t react. Go back to your own people,
they yell.
Is it amnesia or Alzheimer’s I wonder!
Those whom I loved aren’t found.
A moment of breeze and everyone’s dead. How could that be
true?
Should I mourn their demise, I ponder. It’s strange and
peculiar.
Like a dreadful dream, a horror movie, shrilling nightmare.
I refuse to believe it’s true, I fail to accept that it’s
real. Many days pass and nothing changes.
Time is ticking, I’m breathing, and I’m awake. Everything else
is standstill. The earth around me is paused.
Then I look at the wandering faces closely. Touch each of
the soul that pass-by. They don’t look human
One face however feels familiar; I take long to place it.
The face has smiled - an emotion that I have forgotten.
It reads a greeting with warmth. I walk close and wave at
the face, like touching.
I suddenly feel some jolt.
Are you ready, the mouth stuck to that face utters and
raises the eye-brows!
Its eyes have turned red, and bleeding. The teeth have
emerged out, grasping like a shark.
I know you, I know who you are. I had fought, we had fought
long ago. We were younger then, of same age, studied together and then worked
at the same place. Most importantly we hated each other! I had hated you.
When everyone else has disappeared, why did you come to me? I
question.
It roars, the whole face is now red. I can’t say if it’s a
face anymore.
Welcome to the hell it says and disappears. My heart rate has
raised and dipped.
I have always loved everyone around me and when I don’t see
even one of them, why do I have to face the only one person that I hated?
Be glad, it was just one, a voice echoed. And once again, a
void filled.
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