October 18, 2015

TANDAVA : A Short Story

‘You won’t dance. That’s it.’ 
He left the room after putting his stamp of word onto her fate.  
Something somewhere creaked, 
a sudden force fall off, 
as if someone hammered her heart into thousand pieces.  
Her feet started wavering, 
eyes palpitating as her existence into middle of nowhere. 
The energy she had been restricted to herself since ages, 
connected with an imaginary source. 
A quick move and 
she danced… she danced like refusing every direction, 
every measure, world prompt to her.  
The wordless expression was enough to reveal 
that beneath her flesh 
there was frolic soul of flamingo. 


- Ankita Chauhan