That Undiluted Soul

As we grow older
We see things corroding
Like an old house
It's not just our receding hairlines
Or the criss-crossing wrinkles on our faces
We go throw so many seasons in life
That corrodes our soul
A point comes when we realise
The person we saw in our childhood
Has washed away by the waves
And we stand on the pristine shore of our lives
Barely able to recognize our own faces
People come to our life
Attracted by glitz, astonished by humanity
They smile, they sway to our words
And when we lose our voice
They walk away silently
Like deaf and muted audience
We travel to the heights of the skies
Dreamt about the depths of silent seas
And we realise that there is only one thing
Just one thing that we actually need in life
That undiluted soul
Whom we can bare our confused soul
Who revives our lost childhood dreams
Who let us acknowledge our own truths
Beside whom we can write our stories
And sing the songs of our hearts.

This Hour

     
 

My silent soul is awake

the stars motionless in the gliding distance

twinkles in its voiceless beauty.

The night is frozen in its deep silence

silence of the winter weariness.

The deserted lane, drenched in a black paint

occasionally gets inflicted by the sudden

faraway thoughts of the faraway lights.

My heart donned in its dramatic charade

clings about you

wrapping you from every corners

cocooning you into my sub consciousness

in all the visible and invisible forms

inhaling you into my memory.

My love, I want to take you to the faraway places

to the unknown towns and unknown streets

unknown mountains and unknown skies

to unlearn the lessons of the past

be reborn again and again with you.

You are the luminous woman

who lives beside me

whom in my close encounters

I mistaken as my own breath.

When you sleep, I sleep my sleep

when you dream, I dream my dream

when you love me, I love myself.

When you open your cloudy eyes

to the touch of my trailing fingers

over your invisible freckles

I see the world I belong in your eyes

beautiful cloudy world.

I know I’ll kiss those eyes

your lips and your face

and when you smile at yourself

to my kisses

I know you love me

and that’s the only thing I know

this hour.

                                            

OCTOBER SKIES

The classroom is filled up,

People and their muttering retreats,

I sit here in a corner,

Watching and pretending to read,

I close my eyes and think of you.



My heart seems to float up,

In a pretend to find you again...

To fill up the gaps in my moments...

I long to hear your cackling laughter,

In a wish to be a part of your laughter!

MY POSSESSIONS

Everybody is lost in their own world,

Inside me thrives the anxieties of a drunken man,

Sadness has arrived at my doorsteps to engulf my heart

Clouds of distress are hovering around my eyes

And my eyes have got moistened with it.

The road before me looks pathless

It has lost it’s destination and leads nowhere

I am here to walk to my home all alone

The road talks to me in its silence

The road is my only companion in this dark.

The moon is there peeping from the sky,

Whenever I see the moon, it reminds me of my loneliness

Whenever I see it, it brings to my mind

Those lost dreams, lost lives and lost love;

Things that came to my life, just to depart.

While walking in the daylight’s scorching sun

My heart is nothing but a particle of dust

Constantly stamped on by the people passing the road

Sometimes tries to rise but settles on the same place,

The place from where it formed.

My heart finds peace in the deep forests

Where the sun showers it’s long rays-

Filtering through the gaps of the leaves

There, exactly there, my heart rests in the solace of the shade

To find the gentle love of darkness and the brightness.

Near the river bank, my heart murmers with the river

Sings along with the melody of the boatman’s heart

Silences with the sad looking dark mountains

Settles along with the setting sun and

Calms down with the quietness of the night life.

Fazed Dreams

 

                       FAZED DREAMS

 

Is it your voice that I hear in this lonely night?

Was it your voice that woke me up from my sleep?

Was it your gait that keeps me holding on?

Was it your face that I saw today with a half smile?

Was it your absence that makes me sad inside?

Is it your company that I am longing tonight?

Hard to figure out which is more silent- this night or you?

Was it my fault to assume things my own way?

Or was it your pride that took over the sweetness?

Was the oasis a mirage in the desert?

Are you hiding yourself from me beneath your lies?

Are all these my fazed dreams about you and me?

 

 

                                               

                                                

Nights Like This

Nights Like This

 

Sometimes I steal away few moments from my eyes

At nights like this to think of you…

 

I wonder in amazement how your quiet words passes through

My still heart leaving behind this smile on my lips…

 

I never saw you, knew you but still when your thoughts

Crosses my mind at nights like this…

 

I feel myself falling softly towards a beautiful dream world

Where my life starts with you…

 

             

 

 

A Late Night Song

A Late Night Song

 

The moon is shining long and bright tonight,

My days were sullen and exhausting.

Been to places and people…

But now as the night has settled silently

Like dreams on an island…

My mind reflects back to the things

I heard from you…

It doesn’t need a reason

For a beautiful person to be remembered.

Your words are like an anchor

Holds my dreams and beliefs close by.

Just the thought of a future assured

Keeps me going each day…

I have found new ways to walk

Still your words keeps ringing in my ears…

Be back soon as I can’t keep smiling all the time…