Deep Forest

This is by far the most powerful dream that comes to my mind.

The year was 1989. We were all coming to terms with the death of a classmate. She was a close friend. A chirpy young girl. Full of life. Who wanted to live. And had a zest for life. One afternoon she quietly succumbed to Brainfever.

We folks were all beginning to drift apart. Having just left school, we were all on our way to Universities in different parts of the country. This loss somehow brought us together once again. I wrote to a few close friends. They called up. We shared our grief over the phone. And that night, I had this strange dream

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" I saw her sinking into a moist patch of earth. In the middle of a vast Rubber Estate behind the school premises. The hole was slowly revolving inward, sucking her inward. And she held out her hand. We stood around, all of us too dumbfound and rooted to the ground - not knowimg whether to go ahead and pull her out. I was shouting to my friends not to take her hand - lest she should drag them all in. But I had the confidence that I could do it. I was - pushing everyone aside and going right upto the edge of that hole to pull her out. Just as it got too much to handle I woke up. ...with a sense of loss. "

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