I was running out of my breath , for so long i was running through the lush green wheat fields, i knew there was somebody behind me n i was too scared to look back to see what it was n why it was after me? There was nobody in sight to help me, i wanted to shout but words froze in my throat. All i could do is keep running, i knew these lanes by heart n i could run blindfolded to home at any given day, but now it was different;i hesitated at every turn, all the familiar land marks ; old banyan tree, ratan kakas dried well,the big khejari with so many bulbul nests which were my usual stopovers seemed like hurdles to me, at every turn i could hear the thing ws approaching nearer. Just when i took the turn towards my fields my leg got caught in sml bushes, at the side of eucalyptus trees. I gave out a desperate scream as i got to know they were not bushes which caught my feet but the dreaded thing had caught up with me. I felt like i was draing out of blood, i was struggling helplessly.... suddenly there was noise all around, it was a strange sound, like somebody hammering on iron doors continuously. I started shaking, i could not comprehend any thing, slowly a shape appeared in front of me, i rubbed my eyes to see clearer.. it was jayshree my room mate, she was shaking me n asking me to get up, my alarm clock was banging for half an hour now, she told me.
It is 9am in morning n i am sitting in my room in Delhi... even after ten hours sleep m feeling like i had been climbing mountains all night. I wanted to go back to sleep n finish the dream, i wanted to know if i reachd safely to home or i got caught up! i wanted to know what was it i running from? why did i need to run in the first place? I ve had these strange dreams for past 15 years, ever since i left that village home of mine. No-matter how the dream starts it always ends up with me running from something. I vaguely remember about the time i had there in the hamlet with all those people,trees n vast desert lands of rural rajasthan but in my dreams every thing comes alive, so clear, so vivid! it seems like there is something locked up in the infinite layers of my brains. I feel like 15 years bfr i left something very dear there, it haunts me in my dreams, lures me to chase it, but i dnt know what it is.. It never reveals itself, i always wake up bfr finding about it. So this time i decided to revisit all those locked up memory lanes n find about all the secrets so they never haunt me bk again...to be cont
