The Other Realm

I guess it is for the best that we cease to acknowledge that we exist in the same physical world and just restrict ourselves to the abstract cosmos that we discovered each other in. You may continue to use your alias and I will persist with my pseudo identity too. It is about time we admit that we never really found each other – only our alter egos did. We only described who we always wanted to be in garb of telling each other who we were and assumed that the person on the other side will accept whatever we projected ourselves as.

We just happened to like the words we conjured and were soon enough surfing the waves we sent out to each other’s shores. The poetry, we found solace in, weaved a web which was only augmented by the varied taste in music and cinema we shared and enjoyed alike. I cherished the long hours we spent marvelling at the jigsaw of the metaphors that we would assemble, sipping on the essence of a breezy freshness that we would bring to our otherwise solitary, mundane lives. It would have contiued like this forever, had our fondness for each other’s written articulations not inspired a desire to seek each other out in the real world – a bridge that we couldn’t cross.

We took the dough of our hopes and baked a sugary plan out of it. But maybe we did not have enough ingredients and it could never rise out of its mould. The dates that we put on calendar whizzed by and soon the waves fizzled out too. The late nights turned into day breaks and when the sun rose higher, it also highlighted the cracks and scars on our skin. It appalled you and you were mortified to be found in company of someone so broken as me that you took off without even saying a proper goodbye.

The barren beach no longer invite the sea gulls and I guess, it is only a matter of time that dust will settle down on the mirrors we had put and we will no longer remember how we looked like.

However for tonight, I will raise a toast to whatever we were worth once and crack open the bottle I had been saving for us for a special evening and pour myself two double measures in two glasses and drink to both of us and our non-existence in this realm.

Cheers !!! and so long.