She was the lone passenger in my coupe

Draped in marital finery

Her head covered with pallu

She sat by the window

I could sense her discomfort with my presence

For she kept pulling her pallu to hide herself

The only thing I could see was her feet

Beautified with alata, toe ring and anklets

Such a mesmerizing sight it was

I kept staring at her feet

They had a life of their own

If she knew I was gazing at her feet

She didn't hide them

Rather she played along

Ryhming her anklets

Twilight breathed into our cell

But none made efforts to switch on the light

It was as if we both wanted to be enveloped in darkness

Was it her feet that brushed against mine

For a second I couldn't register

But when it occured again

I got the encrypted message

I moved over to her seat

And in that abysmal darkness

I felt her

Every caress of mine, made her restless

As I penetrated her virginal flesh

Her gasping cries got drowned

In the train's speeding rage

When I woke to the silence of dawn

She had left

Leaving her anklet on the scattered sheets.

©LR