Rise Above!

What seems on the surface is not always true,

The shadows beneath are Black, Grey and Blue

Darkness deceives the strength of your fear,

Light receives the appearance of it mere

What you believe as your truth is always someone's lie

At times you feel like a catcher in the rye

The sounds of the night betray the colors of the day

In the dark they often lurk for their prey

For I have few fears and tis’ the scariest one

I have strength which will hold it to none

As belief and love are two unknown selves

Deception and lies go deeper than you delve

Still you believe, still you care

And your diffidence leaves you bare

Oh, dear Lord show me the way

I am your child left in a fray

A battle of minds, a feud of hearts

A tiny little hope torn apart

For I do want to believe, I do want to love

From this fear I want to rise above

Ghost

In those old glass stains, I used to imagine

A buddha, a tortoise and a little bit of magic

That ghost of the old mango tree where I used to live

The shadow of it still percolates through the window sill

Just above the stairs, in that hidden little corner

I had imagined a life, just like a dreamer

The world around used to be different

With smiles, love and everything vibrant

The colors have changed, so have the people

The love has changed, so has the seeker

This no longer is the home to me

My childhood ghost has been set free

Someday if I return with the ashes of thee

Maybe they'll see the real me

Till then let it burn, the fragments of hope

The swing, the tree and the hanging rope

No one Sees, No one Knows

No one sees
No one knows
Love in the morning, is my midnight foe
The color of the dreams that come
The ambers, the ashes and the dying sun
The stars are bleak and don't twinkle,
The sounds of the morning are like a paper crinkle
Of words, of thoughts are umpteen
I need a jar of paper and blue beans.
Oh how I wish my hand stays steady,
For the canvas my thoughts are mixed and ready
In the box of colors is the hidden me
No one knows
No one sees
The rhyme of the chime is the sound of my heart,
It beats in the rhythm, a tune apart
In many faces of what I have
This is the one nobody has
So, its true when I say
I live in shadows, in the wind I lay

You!

From the prism of my eyes,

I see you in bits and pieces.

The tiny fragments of you,

Needle through me like an invisible thread.

I always think, No one knows you better than the way I do!

No one sees you in the dark

The way I do!

But then you change your form.

From light to matter,

From ice to heat!

I see you in the somber rain,

From beneath the window pane

Images dear to me come to my eyes,

Embraces me beyond all the lies.

Yes I am a dreamer,

That's what I have always been!

I know you are not real,

Nor you'll ever be

But then you are there, Somewhere

Or only here in my heart.

Someday, May be, one day

Maybe you'll be true!

Randomness

And so back to my canvas as expected

Alone this time again as always

It’s the choices you make that determines which way life goes

They are never right or wrong

They are either left alone or followed

It’s the pain in you that makes you strong

And it’s your strength that breaks your own heart

Like the glass in your hand broken into small little shards

Life is not as colourless as at times we feel

For some black and grey are the epitomes of zeal

No one wants to be alone

But for some this loneliness is less tedious than the clutter of life

The books on your table talk to you

The colours of your drawing book listen to you

The cat in the neighbourhood is as lonely as one can

Still every day comes purring for the bread in my hand

If you see your life is what is within you

The sea of thoughts and the emotional blues

You know you are on your own for a long time to come or may be forever

Still you long for a caring hand and some words

Words with empty promises may be but words

And you cuddle and sleep with them with a hope

Hope for a better tomorrow

Tomorrow filled with love and may be not alone

The Lone Christmas Star!

The lone red Christmas star,
Hung above so far,
Asked me one fine night!
I am the one all so bright,
I am the one, who gives you light,
Then why am I all alone here?
Why I don't have a friend here and there?
Every year you take me out
Clean my edges and make me stout
I am the one who shows the way
Even dear Santa follows my ray
Then why am I all alone here?
Why I don't have a friend here and there?
I was astonished, had nothing to answer,
A star talking was enough of banter!
Though it made me think,
My thoughts were coming with every blink!
So does this happen to everyone,
For I thought Loneliness is only for some?
It is truly the nightmare which I live
Still there’s some hope I believe
Someone would walk when you are alone
Someone would talk when you are mum
But then when have all the hopes come true
Even the dear star is lonely and blue
It’s the epilogue of a never ending story
The Christmas star would lose its glory
No one would remember who you are
The name would hang in the memories afar!

The Touch!

So have I really lost the touch?

The touch to feel, the touch to express

The touch to write, the touch to de – stress

What have I made of myself?

Is life usually so complicated or it’s me only creating a mess

For I used to live and love with a heart

Now all I am is a tasteless tart

How did I lose myself?

Where did it go?

Why am i always in a state so low?

People come with numerous promises

Promise of love till the ultimate nemesis

But why don’t they hold,

Why do they leave?

Why are the promises always so weak?

For I am a complicated soul, the deeper I go the lesser I know

But somewhere I had the touch,

The touch to feel, the touch to express

Now lost within the bounds of my heart

The soul left is a tasteless tart!

Dream!

It was deep, dark and dusty, with no fleck of light
I could hardly breathe, let alone fight
I stumbled onto something, as my eyes were almost blind
And I saw the white shiny surface.
For a moment I imagined it as a white marble with the speckles of dust
But it was something else,
It was shiny surface of a bone, a long one as hollow as a trees' bark.

So I woke up with a start
Then the reality hit me and I realized it was a dream!
A dream of something unreal or was it real?
But here also it was nothing but the dark
My mind was confused!
Where am I? What time is it?
Where is the sense of security I use to feel?
I raked and raked my brains!
And then the realization grew on me
That I am here! In my own world I created!
The dark and dusty place was my own mind!
The hollow bone was of my own!
Am I loosing it?
Am I getting insane!
That was the first thought that occurred to me!
But NO!
No I am not!
I am just messed up in the life I so complicated on my own!
Thought difficult to admit but then that's the truth!
And it’s not only me who is!
Each and every one of you out there is the reason for your own misery!
Blaming god and circumstances is easy enough but deep down you know who's responsible!
So all I need to do now is to untangle myself from my so complicated brain
Use the life I have got not to be obscure but to live and be useful
For this is only life you probably got
And as they say the moments you actually live are the moments you fought

Remember Me!

Don’t cry when I die,

Remember me as I am alive

Life is short as it is

Fate is unpredictable and the moments brief

Don’t waste the time brooding that I left

Live and enjoy the moments I missed

For I’ll love you in all the high and lows

I’ll be in your hearts till the life blows

You love me back and give my memories a respect

Don’t waste the time brooding that I left

For I sure have a grudge that I am not there

But make it a worthwhile effort to feel me here

As the life doesn’t stop,

With time only the memories grow

So give them a love, give them some life

Once more make me feel alive!

The Little Soul!

For the little soul she is,

Smiling, talking as if she has no care in the world

Holding my hand, feeling my rings

Looking at me with an awe

She is one of the many

Of many who have been left alone

For hardly few know the pain behind their smiles

Hardly few feel the loneliness in their eyes

But god has its own ways of balancing

For these souls left alone are the purest

They have the shades of rainbow in their eyes

Hues of hope in their voices

And a tinge of trust in their prayers

For people view them as unfortunate

But the destiny is what they make

So don’t treat them as the left outs

Treat them as how you treat yourself

For in their prayers lives the God’s will

In their happiness is the true color of life.