Eating the wind, I race through the night.
My eyes, like a landmine…
Deathbed for an unsuspecting insect,
who just lost its way.
I jostle with the cobbled roads,
crater like pits, trying to suck me in…
Their void, no less than mine.
The road is now an abyss, and yet, you are all I see.
Creatures of the night, both you and me…
You follow me along the tangles in my hair,
On the chills that run through my spine…
Your neons piercing the kohl of my eyes.
Unfazed, you stand in my path,
or perhaps I, in yours.
This night, that I so shamelessly claim,
As much yours, as it’s mine.
Why then do you fear me?
Why then do I fight you?
Why not regale in a feast?
My blood as much yours…
As your flesh is mine.
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.