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! 

Departure

The chair you sat, is bare

There’s an emptiness everywhere

Nothing left for me to care

No laughter, fun or love to share

Nothing left but stare

At all your photos in the room everywhere. 

Dreams

Vivid visions

Flash past

An idle mind

Ideas abound

Nature varied

Make believe

Numerous

Ideal fancies

Build up

On strength

Strong faith

When all lost

Courage bound

Fortitude

Colour the mind

Will power

Surpass hope

Infusion needs

Blood of strength

Nature turns

To success

As dreams

Come real

To those lost.

 

Delayed...

Several times we met

Those times we smiled

One month ago

You and me

Were good friends

One day you told me…

I saw you

When I dream at night

That day I couldn’t understand

What you meant

Later

I knew what you meant…

But now I feel I’m delayed.

Do You Know Why?

Do you know why

My head aches?

Coz I try hard

To push you away from my head…

Do you know why

My eyes are crying?

Coz every time

I close and open my eyes

All I find beneath my eyes is you…

Do you know why

My heart is bleeding?

Coz you ran in and out of my simple life

As though it was some

Sort of a game…

Do you know why

you left me?

Coz you had your fun

Lead your life

And now why would you

Give reasons to leave me????

The Conversion

The scorching rays

Of the merciless sun,

Fell on the naked earth

And a lonely heart

Turning the green to brown

Joy to grief.

The leaves crumbled

As the rusty wind

Cornered them

Under the bare, cloudless sky.

Parched – burnt – crispy dust flakes

The earth and the heart

All at once

Drops of love rained from heavens

Green earth, a smiling heart

Everything revived.

Chamber

The walls close in

Shifting

If I open my mouth

Hot air

Will rush in like someone…

Forced a dryer between my

Teeth and filled me up with

White-hot electricity

My brain swims in the waves

I’m claustrophobic

The walls close in

Closer and

Closer and

Closer

Till my lips ice-cold stone,

My chest constricts,

Ribs crack like old branches,

And with a grasp and a choked gurgle

Life evaporates

In scalding steam.

Broken Heart

Don’t break the heart that loves you

Don’t give the heart endless pain

For a broken heart is like a faded flower

It can never bloom again.

Beautiful Thing..

The best and most beautiful things in the world

Cannot be seen or even heard

But they must be felt with the heart.

Because of You

If dreams are because of you

Then I’m dreaming of you

If tears are because of you

Then I’m crying because of you

If rainbows are because of you

Then I’m happy because of you

If heartbreaks are because of you

Then I’m trying to survive because of you

If smiles are because of you

Then I’m trying to laugh because of you

If love is because of you

Then I’m trying to live because of you.

Blank Hope

Sitting at my desk,

Cluttered with piles of papers,

And half – read books,

I keep my pen poised,

And scribble thoughtfully,

Down a blank half – sheet.

I write about a dream,

A blank dream,

A dream that won’t come true,

A dream that’s certain,

To disappoint me.

But these lines I keep penning,

With a hope,

A blank hope,

For, I still wait for the unchangeable,

To change,

And the impossible to happen!

 

Absence

The heat of the sun is quite severe

This lonely mid-afternoon

I look at the empty bed-stead

For consolation-not a trace

Its desolate bosom

Speaks, as if a language of despair

Yet, its message of emptiness is not without compassion,

Something that I do not quite understand.

Like a dog, master less, who looks

With sad eyes, to express the loss of its inconsolable mind,

Not knowing what has happened and why,

But seeking night and day, pointlessly around

The message of the bed-stead

Is yet more pathetic, even more distressed

The dim pain of that emptiness

Fills the room

With the absence of my beloved.

 

Another Monsoon

Life was so monotonous from dew to dusk

Nothing important and nothing new

Days of dissatisfaction and loneliness passed by

But fair wind blew on me too with time

Along with “Unmatched” opportunities

Everything changed

I had hope, I had faith, I dreamt,

I hoped, I wished for the stars

Felt like a teenager excited

With a ray of light in my life

But yes, did my friends warn me

They were right

I was wrong again; it was a change of mood

Now I am tired, I’m hurt, I’ve fallen

But in my heart I still long to be with him

For better or worse, through thick and thin

Alas, but not him

To him it was just another monsoon.

 

Agony of Train Journey

The train I traveled,

At early dawn,

Late not often,

And takes its ride,

At usual hour.

How can I believe my eyes,

Such a load from all four corners?

Struggling for a seat,

As they get in.

What a shame, the so-called Gentle-men,

Rarely a chance give for a lady.

Many closing their eyes seated,

As if in deep slumber,

Doesn’t it flash my memory back,

To a sleeping car in distant trains?

The silly talks of noisy gangs,

And the giggles never ending,

Would never ever be giving,

A rest to my ears.

A smiling face hardly I find,

No exchange of friendly words,

Make me think of their hectic life,

Or I know it not

If it’s the real agony of ‘Train Journey’?