THE RICKSHAW WITH NEON LIGHTS

As the sound grew louder and louder in my ears, I could not hear my voice inside my head (like when I chew my food), the sound entered my veins, I felt the sound growing over my hands to the tip of my fingers to my toes like ink in water. I knew I was under the spell of sound ( I told myself “what a stupid thing to think”). The headache reached my eyes, I wanted to pull them off the eyes- the head – the nose, the pain was unbearable and I slowly opened my eyes and focused my blur vision and could not believe what I saw. Cause I knew what it was as I lay my eyes upon it. My ears went numb as the eardrums busted, my eyes were tearful and I saw what I always wished to see. It was something I have never felt and seen before, I felt surrealistically real. I could see the Sound. I was starring at the SOUND!! My eyes and heart told me that this is sound you are looking at SOUND and my head was screaming " why am I believing on sight ", I could not believe my ear as I deciphered that its the sound I am looking at, I felt something wet on my face flowing from the opening's. I touched to see if its blood. It felt wet but there was nothing. As I continued looked at it, in the next blink, the pain became tremendously sharp and I was no more conscious. Did I faint because of the sharp sound or strong smell or of what I saw? I composed my self from slipping from the chair and see myself back in the office. Everything was the way I had left office but something was not in place. I had faint memory of what had happened but could not recollect. My head hurt nomore. I had faint dizziness and my body would jerk/shiver time to time. It was empty it was late in the night, the office clock showed 0300 am. There was no sound. I found Igloo, the office cat next to me staring right in my eyes, I knew she knew something, I knew that I had something and the moment thought occurred, I realized that I was running and could not stop myself, I turned my face with great effort, the speed of wind hitting my face would not let me close my mutating mouth (skin , face and fat in slow motion). Strangely all the unimportant events in my life were occurring around me, I told myself “what the f*** is happening”, I was running through a Bioscope, I felt tired but I could not stop running. Suddenly I started counting my steps . 1 ... 2 ... 3 ... chaar .. paanch .. roku .. shichi .. hacchi .. ku and looked down at my feet - pause - into the space - lost balance - terrorised. I was falling upwards,the body I was in went topsy turvy. I looked down and saw blue lights going smaller and smaller and smaller. And then …