Monday, August 12, 2024

If I stand up and walk

So, what if I stand up and walk right now,
What's stopping me?
Am I a chained gladiator bound to fight and suffer,
And be a means of amusement to others?
Am I cursed to push a boulder
To the top of a mountain?
No, I am free, free as high flying falcon
Free as the king of the jungle 
Ready to rush on my own will.

I'll not sit here anymore,
Holding my head in my hands, sobbing.
I will not bother to think how I look,
In the thoughts of somebody.
So if I just stand up and walk
Nobody would stop me.
I just have to walk.

Sunday, January 2, 2022

in the corner of the room

I sit in the corner of a café room
Like an obscure little thing
Which has no use in this crippled world.
A room full of worthy and elite people
Has me in its corner like a tumor
In Ares' mighty body, making it
Adverse to fight more wars,
Or like the weakness in Achilles' foot
Which got him killed.
I sit there meaningless as ever 
Staring into melancholic void,
Thinking about ways to get me away
From the age long suffering of this world.
While the God of Death
Sees me from sky and smile
On the futility of my thought.



Sunday, June 13, 2021

rain is not my enemy

Rain is not my enemy,
it is not my friend either.
Rain is like that long forgotten memory,
which scathes my wound even deep.
Its like that old friend that tells you,
what happened to your girl back home,
and you sink in deep trenches of dolor.
No, rain is not my friend or foe,
Its just that the sound of each falling 
perfectly round shaped water droplets,
reminds of a piece of me which, 
I left at home.
So, I pray it to rain,
Not because I have disdain for the sun
But I like to scratch my wounds more
So that I keep myself mindful
Of what I once had and now I have not.
But still rain is not my friend 
But I don't hate it either.

Saturday, December 26, 2020

turning sides in lonely night

Turning sides in bed is a new normal
I don't force myself to sleep now
Had done it million times already
Efforts of sleeping get wasted
Night by night in the black nothingness.
Of course this was not like this,
When we used to sleep side by side.
But it started after your going away that
My chest misses the tickle of your fingers
My hair miss the strokes
Of your sweet hands.
My cheeks and lips miss 
The soft kisses if your lips.
Laying in bed, thinking of you
The night walks all way with me,
And my thoughts of you.
In morning I beg forgiveness to your reminisce,
I preserve the eternal requiem of yours
For the coming night.

Wednesday, December 16, 2020

blazing loneliness

Something at me stares fast,
which leaves me in fear and aghast
It tends to harm me,
it sometimes threatens me
I live in my life in terror.
It follows me wherever I go,
It imitates whatever I do,
It often looks at my body,
with eyes red and glance shady.
I run back home with fear
it shoots me with whetted spear.
I fall down and I scream,
waking up I realise, it was my dream.
I contemplate what had me chasing,
it was nothing but my loneliness blazing.

Sunday, December 13, 2020

can't we go to the village

I don't like it here 
can't we go to the village?
Its too noisy here
can't we go to the village?
Gusts of crowd everywhere
can't we go to the village?
I hate these clouds of dust in the air,
can't we go to the village?
This air chokes me
can't we go to the village?
This house is stuffy and smelly
can't we go to the village?
There are no trees in sight,
can't we go to the village?
People are bad to each other
can't we go to the village?
There is no river around to bathe in
can't we go to the village?
Her son asked her this question again,
can't we go to village?

Tuesday, December 1, 2020

I'll picture you

I'll smoke a cigarette
And I'll picture you in my mind.
I'll picture every moment 
That we've lived until you left me.
The white cloud of smoke
Will make your face out of it.
I'll look at your face of smoke but,
it vanishes the other moment.
Then my cigarette will also be finished
But my wish to see you, would not.
So I'll lit another,
And produce another cloud of smoke
Again your face appears in the smoke.
This will go on until my stock of cigarettes last,
Then I'll tear off my hairs out of agony
And I'll wail out your name. 

If I stand up and walk

So, what if I stand up and walk right now, What's stopping me? Am I a chained gladiator bound to fight and suffer, And be a means of amu...