The crowded loneliness
I stand in a crowd and yet a sense of loneliness engulfs me! I see familiar faces and yet there is a sense of unfamiliarity! It isn’t a friendly world that I see any longer! It has changed utterly and disastrously! I don’t see any of the faces from the past! I don’t see the faces that trusted me and loved me! It seems as though I am surrounded by a million smiling faces but the faces are blurred! They are close to me yet so far from the real me! I was convinced for some time that it was one big bad dream! I see the bad and the ugly and its many facets rising like the tsunami and engulfing into its lap the very young and the very old alike! I see faces spewing venom all around me! I see corruption! I see threat, I see malice and a chilling fear running up my spine! I ask myself – Where is fear? Isn’t it in the absence of God! I could feel Him holding my hand and with me as I was going through these chilling experiences! He was like the Mother intent on giving the required va...