My Favourite Character

While exploring through the stack of books,
I felt a soul-piercing gaze on me.
And as I lift up my head,
I see these two eyes,
Right behind the rack where literature entwine
Staring right into mine.

I wonder is she the one
I have been searching all this while,
In the numerous books, in the various poems.
Is she the one, amidst the desert of my
Chaotic thoughts, calm and mesmerizing Nile.

I read those eyes,
And wonder what they are trying to whisper into mine.
I am confused, if I should ask what has been
Causing a commotion in my mind,
A question of the strangest kind.

Just then, she speaks to me.
As if she has already read my words
In a voice so soothing with those dark eyes shining bright,
“Yes I’m the one you were searching for all these years,
Your favourite character from the story you’re yet to write.”

And as I look back at her,
After collecting the blank pages
That just fell down my hands.

She has disappeared,
I guess somewhere into those blank pages
But I know I’ll meet her again one day.

My favourite character,
From the story I am yet to write

Photograph by: Sarika Gangwal
Written by: Abhinav Chandel