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.

[Veronica Chandler]

Pranav, I must say you have captured my attention so completely with this glimpse into a tiny span of time which contained an eternity of information. It was for a moment as if time slowed to a near stop, just so, that like a painter, you could paint a magical moment with a quill for a brush and light for your paint. "I wished I could ride away with your train of thought." this was such a lovely play on words and a sheer delight to read.

[Pranav Malhotra]

Thank you , I feel honoured to win your keen eye on my note.
Thank again for the lovely words of motivation

[Veronica Chandler]

my pleasure

[Marie]

Beautiful...sometimes a strainger, who never speaks...is never forgotten...

[Pranav Malhotra]

She wont be forgotten, I'm pretty sure of that. . .

[The 13th Eros]

This is a profound profession of longing.. for peace in life's fluid movement. Desires often pass through temples of cloud and shadow...

[Pranav Malhotra]

wow, loved that

[Courtney Rose]

love this, very well written

[John Alexander McFadyen]

A very romantic piece written so that the reader can almost smell the scene and hear the din. I did think you used the word train too many times even given the analogy. And there is a typo in the second paragraph: on should be one.

[Pranav Malhotra]

Thank You , for having a keen eye. :)
I'm glad you liked it

[Dee Okolotowicz]

This sounds like a real incident; something you might have actually experienced.

[Pranav Malhotra]

It is a true story dear

[MiriamMB]

This is beautiful. I have little else to say except Thank you for sharing.

[Gray Witch]

Sometimes, just sometimes if we are lucky we chance upon an encounter such as yours. Oh to be filled with that awe and unencumbered by earthly anchors...

[Pranav Malhotra]

What an interesting world that would be

[KeelyJane]

What a beautiful read. Thank you for sharing.

[Pranav Malhotra]

Thank you keely, Glad you liked it :)

[EChaps]

This is beautiful. What wonderful imagery! It makes one wonder how many times people have noticed them without knowing themselves.

[Pranav Malhotra]

Well it is a true story indeed dear,