Thursday, 2 June 2016

Acquaintances

More often than not, mad people find me.
They single me out from crowd and approach me.

I cringe, hold tight onto my belongings, fluttering my gaze at the crowd awkwardly and beseechingly.

A teenaged boy with crazed look in his eyes stands beside and murmurs indistinctly.
About his mother, about how hungry he is.

A batshit crazy woman who hurls stones at people sits beside me and rants about her daughter-in-law and how she misses having morning tea.

I look around embarrassingly until someone in the sane crowd snaps and shoos them away.

They retreat with a look on their face.
As if I have betrayed them.
As if I have refused to recognise them.

As if, in this unfathomable universe, in some time frame in past when God distributed madness, my soul waited in a queue with theirs.

1 comment:

  1. Anonymous10:14 pm

    Happens with me often. Dedicated to a little madness that we all have in us. Some of us are just good at keeping up appearances. While others are just called as 'mental'.

    -Wonderfully Weird

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