Only a Scar

I have turned around many times

I smiled and pretended not to know

If I silently tried to lie to my heart

Are you wondering, not knowing my heart

I'm suddenly afraid to say I love you

I'm not familiar with those words

With stiff lips I say I love you, I love you

I scream those words at your back

Just to breathe the same air

I can't wish for more

As my love grows without knowing

Only scars come back...

Waiting

Monday, I'm waiting

Tuesday, I’m still waiting to see

See… see... if you are fine

Wednesday, you're still not there

Neither in the morning, nor later

Thursday is also empty

Friday or Saturday or even Sunday

None of the day that I don’t miss you

None of the day that you will come back

To be in our old days

How long it will be like this? I don’t know

How many months or years?

How many billions of our past memory?

I always miss you

Loving Wind

When I was on the bed

By looking at the gray-roof

Sunshine came to the room

Through the half opened window

By saying "Wish you a lucky day"

But...

That sunshine didn't know 

My thoughts are shaking and helpless

Due to heavy wind blowing through my life

But...

When light fell on my face 

i felt that many drops of tears, waiting at the end of my eyes

I failed...

Unable to stop that flow, so I let it dissolve my pain

Then...

I felt loneliness, but nothing in mind

At that moment, I heard a voice

I looked here and there, but no one

I understood that, my mind called me

I stood up, kept a step

But I felt pain of that wind, at each and every step I kept

But...

What can I do? I can't change the wind

However, I can wait until the wind understands

"No meaning of blowing here and there, I want my life". 

Dedication

No umbrella can ever

provide any shade

from rain or shine

unless it gets burnt

by the sun, or

gets soaked by the rain.

No plant can ever

produce any food

for any consumer

if it does not grow

under the scorching sun.

No candle can ever

give out any light

if it does not burn

its own wick with

waxy tears shedding.

No overcoat can ever

provide any warmth

to a chilly body

unless it gets numb

by the frozen snow.

The Difference

I got up early one morning

And rushed right into the day

I had so much to accomplish

I didn’t have time to pray

Problems just tumbled about me and

Heavier came each task

Why doesn’t God help me I wondered

He answered, “You didn’t ask”

I wanted to see joy and beauty but

The day toiled on grey and bleak

I wondered why god didn’t show me

He said, “You didn’t seek”

I tried to come into God’s presence

I used all the keys at the lock

God lovingly and gently chided

“My child you didn’t knock”

I woke up early this morning and paused

Before entering the day

I had so much to accomplish that

I had to take time to pray.

During the Night

Throughout the night

Silent mile of wind around

The sea waves everyday the same

Dark around you and me…

But, you are the light to me…

When I come from overseas,

you should wait there,

For me…

Because,

you are beacon

I’m the queen of ocean

How I come?

Without the guide of your light…

Death Be Not Proud

You stalk your victims mercilessly.

You strike them down swiftly

Or drive them slowly to an end without dignity.

You spare no one: Young, Old, Man, Woman, Famous, Unknown.

In the past year alone you have struck down luminaries

You have killed countless people

Too young to achieve fame.

You came stealthily at dead of night

And felled the person dearest to me.

May lightning strike you as retribution

But may you survive to mend your ways

Be merciful, gentle, swift

Until such time we humans find a way

To sail into space and eternity

Leaving you earthbound and redundant!