Dear Stranger

Dear Stranger,

 

At Once I saw you locked in the walls of a resting train. I sieved the meddling crowd to get a glimpse of you. A scarf draped around your neck you were nonchalantly staring through the window now fogged by your warm breath.Your eyes were staring at no particular thing. They might have been, but it surely wasn't me. The taller heads of the crowd played hide and seek, yet I managed to lock my gaze on the glass walls separating our worlds. The engine coughed, the train pulled, yet your eyes seemed stoic. It seemed that all the mania around you had no effect them. Your pondering eyes found a train of thought that was poles away from the train you were on. Perhaps it turned down the volume of everything around you. I wished I could ride away with your train of thought.

 

The sun raised an inch higher on your window. The rays painted your pallor with a gaussian blush. Oh, it was the sight of skin that'd been tendered for years. The sight of a woman who had been loved in her childhood, who played with fleeting pigeons and bathed with morning swans.

 

The train pulled you away from me, I for some reason felt the platform move. A momentary loss of consciousness as you treaded away. You took your world of tranquility and peace with you leaving behind a ruckus of horns and loud gawkers.

I know for a fact that wherever you are, dear stranger, wherever this train took you, you would have filled the air around you with beauty, peace and poise. For you are a rare nobility to be admired, you are a portrait to be painted, a sonnet to be sung, a memory to be cherished and if I ever get to see you again, I pray that my will shall get the better of my romanticism, so that I can register your aura in the realm of my senses. . .

 

 

Pranav Malhotra 

Reviews

[cycy]

wow...this is definitely the best story i have read on here. i can definitely relate, a chance encounter with the perfect stranger but somehow you will always remember every single detail even how the wind blew and their hair moved and all. you described it so well i could actually picture it in my mind. beautiful..absolutely beautiful. very well written indeed.

[Pranav Malhotra]

Thank you so much.
Hope the note found you in a happy place.
Loads of love.

[cycy]

happy place indeed..well i had the privilege of meeting my stranger thrice...on the first 2 occasions we could not engage because we were both surrounded by other people but we made so much eye contact there was an unbeleivable connection. then the third time we finally talked and gave him my number. turns out we don't quite click so much hahahahahahah..funny thing this universe.

[TL Boehm]

wonderful write. I often people watch but I rarely form an attachment to the subject matter. I just take notes I suppose. This is lovely and gentle.

[Sharon]

Prose that winds smoothly through the thoughts of a man like a stream through the wooded forest. Very nice.

[Pranav Malhotra]

that was smooth, lady.
thanks a ton

[Sharon]

My pleasure. Did the acceptance of your request forfriend go through. I found the site not responding the other day.

[Roxii]

The way you have your words flow together with such beauty and silk makes me wonder how I could do that. But you, my wonderful friend, have an amazing gift of being able to bend and shape words the way you want them to look, sound, portray. Not many people are able to do what you do, and for that, I congradulate you from the depths of my being.

[Leslie Philibert]

a fine piece of prose, the first I have read from this writer, great use of language..

[Pranav Malhotra]

Thank you sir.

[Maxine]

I love your writing! There's a flow to it that's very calm and deep, like water :) Its completely beautiful, and feels effortless and graceful and dreamy.
Thank-you very much for the friend request, I'm so very much looking forward to reading more of your writing in the future.
-Max

[Pranav Malhotra]

Wow maxine. this piece was perhaps written in reminiscence while my law lecture was going on. I have no idea as how and why I began to recollect that incident while sitting at the last bench in the class

[Maxine]

It's really quite beautiful, and It feels like a dream when you described it, like those moments when you're caught within your mind, going through the motions of the day automatically but at the same time noticing things that no one else seems to see. Its amazing sometimes the things we pull from our mind when we're least expecting to find them :)

[Rhianne Ney]

I love the piece and how it describes the stranger. I've watched a thailand movie(not comparing just pointing out something) which revolves with two strangers who didn't give their name to each other and by the end of the movie their names were kept a mystery.
(:
Whoever the stranger is, I think she'll appreciate what the narrator have written for her. A designated person for us sometimes comes unexpectedly but we are all assured that they will for sure COme

[Pranav Malhotra]

I'm somehow intrigued by that movie, Feel free to drop in its name

[Rhianne Ney]

"Hello Stranger" (:

[A.E. Surdam]

Full of emotion. I can't imagine this happen clearly in my mind. It reminds of song I heard. Beautiful write.

[Pranav Malhotra]

The idea was to let you imagine . . .
Hope it went across. Amber. Thank you so much

[Sami Khalil]

"a memory to be cherished and if I ever get to see you again, I pray that my will shall get the better of my romanticism, so that I can register your aura in the realm of my senses. . ."
Such a romantic write. Truly enjoyable read...:)

[Pranav Malhotra]

thank you.it as in a romantic mood perhaps

[Sami Khalil]

Indeed. You are welcome...:)

[RainC]

I respect your work with so much value! Every time I'm amongst your work I'm surrounded by greatness! :)

[Pranav Malhotra]

That is an honor. thank you so much

[Barbara Walker]

Beautiful imagery, taking me to time and place with you.

[Pranav Malhotra]

glad it worked