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.