images from a fractured mind Part 2 1/3

Is this Life? Is this what it’s all about; Sitting under a soot covered umbrella alone, yet surrounded by people, in the rain, on a concrete bench, waiting for the rain to come, only to be disappointed once again?  So I pick up my bag and start walking to my next meeting, I get about half way down the street and a huge crash of thunder opens up the sky and nothing short of the biblical Noah’s flood unleashes upon the city, as if God was mocking me as I try to gain shelter under a small vine covered trellis along the sidewalk. I am consumed by the surreal nature of what is unfolding in front of my eyes.  Noone is slowing down, bicycles, motorcycles riders alike reach for their ponchos and slip them over their heads without the slightest care or concern in the world.  The honking continues and the noise from the street is challenging the thunder claps from the belly laughing of God at his latest practical joke. Here I am in this foreign land isolated not so much by language, but by the cage that I have contained myself within, protecting me from the visitors that patron the zoo that is my life, or is it them that I am protecting from me?

This couldn’t happen while he was under the dry sanctuary of the multi- colored umbrella, that wouldn’t have been anywhere near as funny”, He says to Siddhartha, as they roll on the floor of  Ashoka blossoms holding their belly’s laughing. 

I look up into the black clouds as I here God and his pals getting a good laugh, “enough” I  say quite audibly, “you think this is funny? Get a load of this!” and headed out down the street as if it was a sunny summer day.  I walked straight across Nguyen Dinh Chieu with thousands of motorcycles honking their horns at me swerving to avoid running into me on the busy wet street.  I get the other side and make a b-line for Truong Dinh, and smile at the locals, who stared at me as if I was completely out of my mind; I said to them, “you see He needs me, so I’m not worried” and went along my merry way. 

“Well, I have to admit, I didn’t see that one coming, that just took all the fun out of it”, He said to Vishnu, “I think he is finally ready”, said Iblis.  “I’m not sure just yet”, He said, “let’s just wait and see a little more.”