fullman*

Archive for the ‘love’ Category

Today, I woke up with a persistent buzz inside my head. I knew immediately that a shift in my world happened, a not-so subtle change. It was not in the morning news but I noticed even before rising that the pillows on my bed were into something, trading rumors in whispers.

While having my breakfast, the bowl I took from the shelf stared back with a malicious smirk on its face. My oatmeal giggled as i poured milk on it – or was it just the buzz in my head? Poets have claimed that rivers sing, but I swear today it was the faucet that I heard, teasing the sink with its sexy humming. Even the electric fan nodded its agreement: today I woke up with a psychedelic buzz inside my head.

Outside, while walking to my office, a jogger leaped, landed in India, and discovered that butterflies and lovers are of the same origin. The traffic light dismantled itself and discarded its lights, replacing them with images of vast sunsets. The alley cats declared their sovereignty, walked on walls, and marched for the moon. The newsboy sold tabloids that screamed poetry in red. To settle things the sun itself issued a ruling, final and executory: love cannot be denied.

As a man of reason, I chose to ignore it all. I walked past the cheering crowd that greeted the decision. The clouds declared a holiday and turned themselves into wings; I skipped their celebration. I went straight to my office instead, poured myself a cup of coffee. Its blackness was defiantly bitter. I drank it anyway, bottoms up. It was only then, in the stillness of the room, that the buzz in my head unravelled its syllables: all along it was saying your name, your name, your name.

SHARE IT IF YOU LIKE IT!