The man I knew
Posted on April 15, 2021 Leave a Comment
You never failed your duties
but maybe people did fail you.
Every morning you would take those steps
which would one day help others to rise,
and then silently leave at the end of the day
with a promise for another tomorrow.
Men whom we are to look upto,
are the ones who don’t portray as heroes
and yet they define them.
Never inconsistent, never dishonest,
always delivering, always persistent.
While I, like most, failed to recognise you then,
today wonders how you might be doing?
Know that today you are a friend
whom someone is dearly remembering.
Unsaid words can never be uttered
for the listeners never return,
my friend you left a lifetime here
and for a lifetime shall I learn.
Wednesday’s Sun
Posted on April 14, 2021 Leave a Comment
Last week’s Wednesday was quite tough. Sun was just unbearable and so were certain other aspects of my life.
So, I did this…
Mayhem
Posted on April 13, 2021 Leave a Comment
There was never enough in this world
yet there was always plenty for everybody.
Who compromised or realigned is pointless
because it is all about perspective.
Where you see heaps some will utter mere,
veracity of the exact is uncertain
and so is each and every single story.
Frivolous is the act of those who seek balance
for the world rotates to strike it.
But the efforts aren’t inconsequential
for they give us purpose or sense.
Even there we don’t have it, balance
or, maybe we do by pledging for different houses.
Be aware, the equation will try and strangle you
and later help you to find purpose.
That smile in the end too
will carry questions to ponder and discuss.
Clocked time
Posted on April 11, 2021 1 Comment
It is like a clocked time
given to each on loan.
Within it, you are boundless
but in the end you will be done.
A bargain from death, if you will,
is what we all did to be here.
Some found much while others less,
of all the uncertainties in life, this is clear.
Like any other, this too carries interest
which is to be repaid with depleting time.
What you do here is consequential
and not what you think you should,
deeds are rare but the thoughts are perennial
and hence they are of lesser importance.
A thought which comes to us all, no denial,
our brilliance is timed and shall fade like it.
When is the actual unknown in life.
Gifts that we borrowed must have had a purpose
and life’s is to repay the debt.
Timed is the word to care for
because it doesn’t stop or reset.
Earn to settle the curious fare
of this journey you frequently forget.
Greatest desire
Posted on April 9, 2021 Leave a Comment
I do not wish of wealth and wine
neither do I care for illustrious fabrics.
Ever since the beginning, I have been waging wars,
building monuments, making literature,
shaping history, spreading love,
bestowing favours, protecting fellow beings,
seeking help, creating and later destroying my creations,
only to be understood by a few I care for.
From primitive till the future, which is yet to come,
a lot has been done and is being done
and yet I was never understood by a few I care for.
Greatest desire of mine is always realised
after I leave or better, in my absence.
For all my strives had only hoped for one prize,
if only I was understood in my presence.
Darkness
Posted on April 6, 2021 Leave a Comment
I am afraid of darkness.
It makes me blind.
I have lights in my room
which allow me to walk freely
about my chosen paths.
Yet, there is a residue of fear
which I feel during those walks.
I am a scared insomniac
who doesn’t know how to face darkness.
As soon as the lids close
I tremble inspite of calming down.
My darkness was never the absence of light
but absence of courage.
Wonder about the blind.
Tonight, I shall try to turn the lights off.
Gasp
Posted on March 30, 2021 2 Comments
It can be fatal:
not being able to breathe.
Regret is to fail at the trivial
without even realising it.
While lungs are being well fed,
people still suffocate.
Surely something is being misread
perhaps an instruction or caution.
Yet when pondered, it seems unlikely
that each who had gasped, got it wrong.
Maybe it’s the lyrics of the song
which are to be held accounted.
Try breathing with your eyes closed
and laughing with your ears shut,
maybe suffocation will cease to occur
when both body and mind will concur.
Intentions and Intuitions
Posted on March 21, 2021 Leave a Comment
Intentions are hard,
sometimes they aren’t even true.
Usually defensive in nature,
they inflict what they aren’t supposed to.
Intuitions, on the contrary, are shy
for they speak but rather softly.
To inform is what they try to do
but are dismissed rather harshly for being mostly true.
But when we allow intuition to read the former,
the outcome is seldom untrue.
Reality sinks in before it even strikes
and doubt is left to subdue.
An order that must be followed to maintain order
is perhaps the hardest to define and adhere.
Allow your feelings to get conquered by one another,
maybe you will be liberated from those that harm you.