Lately, Lord Krishna is a regular visitor in my REM sleep.
The other night he was standing on the ghats of Benares, mesmerizing all with his melodious flute. Our eyes met with an unexplainable longing . Slyly he beckoned me to walk down the steps with him. I followed- like a dog follows his master. Lovingly , he placed me in the arms of Baba Moinuddin Chisti. I slept peacefully.
Last night I once again saw him in a chariot pulled by four white horses, his ink blue body resplendent against the virgin whites of the horses. His strong arms urging me to elope with him. Radha and Rukmini were nowhere in sight. Mira too had failed to hold onto him. This eternal casnaova had fallen in love with an eternal romantic-Me.
Could it be an invitation from the universe to resurrect the dying love within me? Could it be my need to understand love of a different kind?
Perhaps yes.
Love sought. Love found. Love immortalised.
I wake up. My palette beckons…my canvas waits. Krishna here I come.
Insia Dariwala is a graduate from F.I.T New York (Advertising and Mass communications), loves to tell stories and is a filmmaker. ‘The Candy Man’ (www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSr0ne-iizs) her hard hitting debut film on child abuse won her two ‘Best Director’ awards in India (2009, 2010) and also got nominated at Barcelona International Film Festival and the New York Short film Festival in 2010.
Art: Reema Moudgil