Just Then
When the moon starts its slow decent
on the broken stairs of night
When the hopes begin to melt in the cold flame of grief
When the voices begin to drown in the gloomy ocean of heart
When the seasons slip away, when the butterflies cease to talk
When living becomes a duty, void of meanings, worthless
When every passing momentfalls on me like an abuse of life
When faces vanish in the deep silence of rememrance
When eyes, heavy with pain, drown in the whirlpool of memories
When flames die away, when dreams
Begin to scatter
Just then, if you could walk into
My life, my love_____!!
Links
Think it over, my love
For the journey of decisions
Is never soothed by
The soft shadows of words
No pain is more painful than
The pain of remorse
Think well
Of the fears you may have
About traveling with me
Set them out in your eyes
And know it well,
Time is barren desert
With no return.
New scenes obliterate
The seasons of yester-years
The gust of breeze
That creased your hair
Some while ago
Is gone and dead
Its being or not being
Is meaningless for you
Have you ever thought?
How the existence of life
Is linked with the living being?
This is the time my love
To understand the link
That binds us together
For the fears you may
Have about traveling with me
Take a break on this crossroad and
Set them out in your eyes
For every bond of your hands
Is still well within your hands____!!
Love Encompasses All
Love encompasses all
The eternal end of our closeness
Metaphor of our being
Your beauty beacons
Inevitable inflictions
How sweetly befall
Love encompasses all
With the break of dawn
Dewdrops shine on rose petals
A moth hovers around around the tree branch
The flower, moth, turbulent oceans
Serenity, rise and fall
Love encompasses all
For the dreams we shared?
For the plans we carved?
But the waves do not stop
On the threshold of time
In the dance of dust
Colours fade away fast
Impressions do not last
Clouds vanish on horizon
Shrinking distances enthrall
Love encompasses all____!!
O, Defenders Of Faith
My creator is He
Who gave flowers fragrance
Trees shade, oceans water
Winds motive power
Created earth, moon, sun
All are Human beings
None better than others
Except the devout
Everyone has right to
Live on earth
Reap labour's fruit
Walk about with dignity
Enjoy free speech
Indulge in a smile
Have wishes fulfilled
And desires satiated
All God's progeny
Deserve respect
Why, o, why should
One's conceit be
Fatal to others?
I seek light for
The unfortunate, those
Whom, to feed your ego
You treat as worse
Than wayside stones
I speak for those
Whom your beguiling
Eloquence held captive
And sold to oppressors
In every age
God is mine_____!!
Ode To the New Year
Let's account for life's deficit blight
Count our griefs, know our pains right
What plaints blister at the bottom.
Today is the day to unleash them.
Lets' tell the unloyal to his face
Speak out what your lips are burning to
Leave apart guarded reticence
Even blab out what's between the lines
Why do you greet me with laughters feigned?
Let looks be frozen if your heart is reigned
Let your face reveal
What whispers in the bosom.
Know our pains, count our griefs
One word binds you and me
Just one word in the abyss of the diction
Lets adopt the word selfsame
That carries the truth of times
For hypocrisy, a whole life is ahead
So let's not molest that one word dead
Count our griefs, know our pains right
Let's account for life's deficit blight_____!!
On This Crossroad
On this crossroad of life
Let us stop before we go
And ponder over the path
You and I took long ago
For it is not merely a part
Of the journey long
It is the scale to judge
The path we took all-along
It is a mirror that reflects
Picture of present and past
Destiny calls at distance
Metaphor that may not last
In this ruthless desert of life
If steps drift away at start
By the time we reach our ends
We are thousnds of miles apart
Therefore my love
On this crossroad of life
Let us take a break___________!!
Once In A While
Once in a while
During these sultry nights
When all voices seem
To have fallen asleep
In the somewhat bruised
Silence of half-sleep
A wonderful dream awakes;
I see
That across the veil of dust
Which hangs between us
You too are all alone
And wide awake____!!
Poets
Craftsmen who chop
Words from trees of
Hope to build ladders
How gifted are they!
Sow seeds of sorry and raise
Harvest of happiness in minds
Innovators all!
Build boats in ocean
Of time and get drowned____!!
Rendevous
This story of earth
As old as the universe
As old as birth
Of day and night
The story of sky
Is a part of the words
We casually uttered
Between you and I
Incomplete, till the end of sight
The earth and all
The scenes with-in
Witness the moment
When you held my hand
And we watched
This world together
This world
Center for the rendevous
Between You and I_____!!
Sand
The sand keeps on sliding
For it is meant to be, it keeps on sliding
Deserts retreat
with the sound of cities
Dust fills up the springs
Oasis begins to shrink
The sand keeps on wandering
For it is meant to be, it keeps on wandering
We may try to collect
Particle by particle
How hard we may try
How tightly we may
Clench our fists
The sand keeps on slipping
For it is meant to be, it keeps on slipping
Memories scattered on the beach
Are washed away with returning waves
So are the words, carved on
The sheet of water
And all that is built with sand
The sand keeps on spreading
For it is meant to be, it keeps on spreading_____!!
The Tragedy Of Self Made People
Those who tempers optimistic
Bright and buoyant
What unusual fates they have
Cleansing life's path
Of thorns strewn
Assembling each straw
To build a nest
Trapping fragrance
Adorning gardens
Their life is spent
Their life consumed
They gift the flowers
Give all away
Not that, the
Drudgery of
The unending toil
Goes unrewarded
Blood-money
For longings that die
Goes unpaid
All pleasures that life
Enfolds, come their way
With one and all
They are endowed
But late always
Ever delayed
Rewarded they are
For the slog, the grind
But bit by bit
Like borrowed money
Returned in parts
The actual writing
Fading into the hidden rear
In teeming spring
Their flowers all
Are the last to bloom
The sun in their courtyards
Appears late_______!!
Tomorrow
Half a century on
My home and habitat
Reduced to dust by
Blind oppression
My children, my people
Enmeshed in dreams
And lured by oases
Get decimated
All round is a sea of blood
Everyone target of censure
Each lane slaughter house
The world, professed
Guardian of universal
Brotherhood, watches
Unmoved, silent
Our extermination
Oppressors' shadows
Are ever-lengthening
Earth blood-splattered
But as long as flames
Fled with martyrs' blood
Keep on burning
Heart is assured
Even in extremes of pain
Day follows dark night____!!
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