Today I read

One of those days, when you want to ingest it all. 

So today, I do not vent out. Today, I do not talk. Today, I do not express. Today, for once, I do not react. Today, I do not exhale. Today, I read. I listen. Soak it all in. Today, I take a deep breath and hold it in. I hold in the thoughts, the air, the light,…everything. Today, I am a reservoir. Today, I am a bulging overloaded bus. Today I swell up like a lake in the rains. Today, I am the anaconda who has gobbled up a zebra. Today, I am a stuffed capsicum. Today, I am the book bursting from its seams with many varied characters and their stories. Today, I am the badhtaa bachchaa of the complan ad..too huge to fit in my clothes. Today, I am the rain cloud on the verge of a downpour...only not there yet. Today, I am the alphabets in the book with its fluterring pages, waiting to be devoured. Today, I sink my teeth into the world and consume it. 

Today, I read.