thesocratespot: Days of Bi Polarity : thesocratespot: AAUW : Chapter XCIX

thesocratespot: Days of Bi Polarity : thesocratespot: AAUW : Chapt...: Daniel was sitting inside Annie's hospital room, all was quiet , the TV was On, but in mute mode, Annie, was awake , but Daniel was asleep on a easy chair of old make. Annie, took out all her clinical wires - her IV, her ECG, her BP cap , her Oxygen mask , her seizure alert caps everything that confined her to her hospital bed.

It was a while since walked so she walked with measured steps until she reached sleeping Daneil - close enough - as soon as she knew she was close enough, to physically touch him , she slowly , without waking him, caught hold of his shirt collar from opposite angles and just pulled them apart with such force that Daneil woke up in a start , by then Annie had already torn his short into smithreens - Daneil was delighted with the fact that Annie was out of her Coma but he was even more delighted that Annie had remembered an old game they used play . It was a game of tearing each others clothes, everytime they met after a long break , they went after each other , tore apart everything they wore until they were naked , until they were completly stripped but this time when Annie started the game Daniel wasn't prepared, it happened a bit too unrealistically - they were in a hospital and Annie was being diagnosed for a severe bi polar depression - but soon Daneil realised the importance of a response , he started tearing Annie's clothes , vigourously , and they were both laughing, he tore and she tore , Annie was already naked , she had been shaved by the nurses recently so she looked clean but pale and emaciated .

The hospital staff were confounded, initially they thought it was two lunatic chaos but soon realised the fact that Annie was reliving an old ritual, they were glad she was out of her bipolar prison so they too participated in the stripping session - soon their were at least a dozen humans tearing each others clothes, laughing, thanking and celebrating .

Annie sat in a chair, Daneil followed - they both hugged and then they kissed .          

Days of Bi Polarity : thesocratespot: AAUW : Chapter LXXXXIX

Daniel was sitting inside the Annie's hospital room, all was quiet , the TV was On, but in mute mode, Annie, was awake , but Daniel wasn't sure if she knew her co-ordinates, she was sleeping on the hospital bed facing his side but her eyes were looking mildly animated, she was talking to herself , whispering, gesturing, constantly moving her fingers as if she was playing on an instrument, like a saxophone - Daniel nodded and smiled to himself - she was being diagnosed for a Bi-Polar disorder, 

Someone knocked , two nurses walked in, smiled at Daniel and then started their everyday routine of checking Annie's BP , temperature , ENT to record their daily report, Daniel stepped out , walked to a corner he had discovered , rolled a joint and dragged , held a deep breath and then exhaled, the day was snowing outside , they were at one of Johns Hopkins speciality wards for mentally ill , this part of the hospital was a lot more liberal and free of people , in fact it often looked almost deserted. 

As Daniel dragged on, inhaling and exhaling, watching the snow and the frostiness around, his mind kept pushing him back to days he had not thought about for a while, it was almost a fifteen years since Annie had migrated to the US, she had qualified through GRE & GMAT to join Harvard ( she could appear for both since she had engineering and literature as joint electives ) and then Daniel too migrated to New York, working for an Investment banker . 

Daniel couldn't deny the fact they both - Annie and him - were a pair , they were two people who were so comfortable with each other that at times even Annie's best of male partners became very uncomfortable with their chemistry. 

And even today, Annie after four marriages, four other relationships , four divorces and having almost seven children from each of her relationship living in different parts of the world, she still looked like she was the same woman who had just started her life's journey - she looked fresh, frail, lost but if someone were to look deeper then they would have found Annie very smart and desirable , one look at her even in this condition would tell anyone who's observing her that she wasn't your everyday person - and she was open to all possibilities. 

Daniel inhaled and exhaled his grass , saw that the stick was burning slow due to the weather and smiled as he thought of a particular incident - 

He and Annie were generally surfing on the net together at her Harvard hostel room , she was then in a relationship with a Jr. Lecturer , she was narrating a time when she went visiting this man's house, the guy only had his mother living with him, his father was dead, after the preliminary intros, the guys mother went back to her knitting and they sat down to watch some TV, Annie decided to sit on the floor saying she was comfortable that way, the guys mother was knitting just behind , as they were watching TV Annie leaned her head onto the Jr. lecturers legs just for support , before long she was giving him a job and the mother behind had no clue .

Daniel , screamed , smiled loud and then threw his marijuana stick. 

When he stepped into Annie's chamber, the nurses had left and Annie was in a trance. 

       

What's Beyond ? : thesocratespot: AAUW : Chapter LXXXXVIII

Beyond

Go beyond
they say

But what's beyond ?

Is it spatial ?

Is it above ?

Below ?

Beneath ?

What's beyond ?

I'm a human
I'm a plant
I'm an animal
I'm a flower
a Child
a wife
a husband
a daughter
a lover
a paramour
a purist
an anarchist
an Iconoclast
an atheist
a boy
a girl
a man
a woman
a transgender
moron
idiot
charlatan
thinker
rider
player
runner
reader
writer
poet
worker
beggar
prostitute
whore
womaniser
believer
traitor
murderer
rapist
thief
faithful
unfaithful
ethical
unethical
loser
winner
spiritual
not spiritual

I'm
air
water
sun
storm
star
magnet
gravity

Snake
& lizard

Vampire
&
God

Everything is within

What's beyond ?