An anonymous tourist left this for you and me to read before he took his fatal plunge off The Green Valley view at the land’s end of Kodaikanal.

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The Suicide Point

The mist billowing from the plains

Washed the granite face of the cliff.

The blinding white expanse

Grew denser with the drizzle.

The wet sunlight got scattered

Thickening the opaque whiteness.

Nature stood shivering -

A graying man on uncertain feet.

A thousand dragons from the plains

Blew their misty venomous winds.

The pines guarding the bottomless pit

Stood shivering, lining the ledges.

I stood on the land’s virtual end

And peered down the dizzy depths.

The gust of wind from the abyss

Raised the veil of mist awhile.

The smoky purple face of the valley

Lit up, pale in the dim sunlight.

It beckoned me down

And I converged into a point.

I saw the coordinates of Life and Death

Meeting at the edge of the cliff.

My body trembled and vision grew hazy

As the expanse beckoned me down.

A  sudden vertigo seized my limbs

And sent me flying down the cliff.

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