Live


The pain, the thrills
The gain, those chills
Hurt heart, broken too
Masks galore, true faces few
The world stings
They clip your wings
Smiles tarnished
Souls famished
Philosophy learned
Those glories earned
Bumpy rides
Changing tides
Don’t ponder
Look yonder
Life is calling you
For a journey so new
Smile through woes
Smile through meaty blows
Live beyond existence

Live to reveal your true substance!  

THE PHILOSOPHER


Shattered pieces of his heart
He carried as innocence from his soul did depart
He blamed the circumstances for till he could
As he didn’t rejoice the moment where today he stood
Blaming all till he lost track of people
Tears broke him and made him feeble
Crying till his soul dropped dead
Reminiscing those words left unsaid
Regretting those unlived moments of gladness
Recollecting those horror tales of sadness
As he stood on the threshold of hell
He looked back and saw the place from where he fell
A divine light shone on his soul
Suddenly his life felt complete as his broken heart became one whole
Though the tears had dried up he was still choked
To talk of his past he mustered courage and of his mistakes he often joked
A lighter grin, a saner heart
Looked like a burden of woes from his heart did depart
Though still missing his days of before
He knew he couldn’t get back to sadness galore
It was like he had made peace with his life
Made a pact to respect a few memorable moments of his strife
Talking words of wisdom
Living in his own fantasy kingdom
They called him the philosopher all the while

But he knew within, he was a broken soul trying to hide behind the enlightened smile!

The God within me




Quest for the eternal
Thirst for the almighty
I chose to meander aimlessly
I chose to swim searching for deeper shores
I couldn’t find Him
Until He showed up within me

Portraits of raw paint
Lifeless stones galore
Fables of fantasy
Belief galore
I looked for Him everywhere
Until he knocked silently on the closed doors of my icy soul

Everywhere I see
People believing the divine so dutifully
Offering their all
Hoping for an end to their life’s gloomy pall
He doesn’t exist in those grand structures
He exists in their belief and in their hope.

“Are you an atheist” they asked
I pondered, smiled and moved on
Unruly it would be of me to break their hope
For that hope is nothing but His holy presence
Unaware of His presence within their souls
Sad it is that yet they search for Him in stones and fables.


As I enjoy the God in me
Those gut calls of conscience helping me
Guiding me, chiding me and steering me towards calmness
He arrived at a time when I stopped searching
Thus all must look within instead of wandering clueless externally

For all must rejoice His being like I did and find the God in them!

Bad things happen for a reason



You know bad things happen for a reason
Ain't no use crying over self treason
You and me cannot afford to stop working
As the bad things won't ever stop lurking
Karma's cruel justices keeps us on the edge
What used to be in our clutches once now needs to be worked for and fetched
But remember that the bad things always happen for a reason
Sorrow is nothing but a fleeting season
God is the judge of this Hell called Earth
Though this is his sadness pool, He has given us a few bubbles of mirth
Don't stop believing, don't ever lose hope
For optimum positivity within the heart, there's always more scope
So remember
Forever
The harsh things happen for  unknown reasons
Take them in your stride and learn those bitter lessons
Try hard to smile
For whatever it is, it may be worthwhile!

Never meant to be



As a tiger is to grass
As the classy are to crass
As the deer is to meat
As the downtrodden are to achieve any feat
You and I, my beloved
Are just not meant to be

A moment’s glance
A fleeting chance
Sparks in the air
The pressure unable to bear
We know it well
That this will end in hell
Because you and I, o glorious one
Were never meant to be

Cupid’s arrow of fate
We try to abate
Though the world is spiteful
For the small riches I am grateful
We are meant to spell doom
As this is bound to end in gloom
As the stars above whisper
“You two will never be!”

That feeling of having struck gold
Your stare so bold
People stating the obvious
Heartbeats so anxious
The soul is bound to break
For the pain is too much to take
We both leave it at that
For we decide, this will never be

Loneliness creeps down my gut
All riches have left me in an emotional rut
Still that night beckons
What could have been, the heart reckons
Poker faced gladness
Internal sadness
Depth of a broken soul
Fate played a cruel role
We shouldn’t have left it at that

Maybe we were meant to be!

The abode of weirdness



A few meticulously bullied children found solace
A few disrupted souls started living with grace
A few tarnished hearts found their peace
Life’s woes began to ease
In this era of gadgets began a new abode
For the weird, destitute and bored
Where their type of weird became global
And the world became local
As soothing as the sound of raindrops kissing the window pane
A million broken hearts tried to heal each other’s pain
While many argue the ills and thrills of the internet
Some found a joyous world where they needn’t fret
A world beyond the realms of their sorrowful reality
A world full of dreams, promises and glee
The internet is indeed the abode of weirdness
Where people like you and I can leave aside our stress
Where we can shrink the boundaries and embrace our frailty
Where one can be their strange self without feeling guilty
In a world where indeed birds of a feather flock together
A world where happiness is the only season, mirth is the only weather
Yes, the internet provided a sphere for alter egos, for new realities
Yes, the internet created a new underground where life moves with ease
There are new job opportunities but above all new identities
This is a parallel world, where the scarred soul can have its secret riches
Words are caressed as we witness broken souls bloom

Joy is distributed as we witness mirth destroy gloom! 

Maturity Defies Age



In an era where man is ruled by gadgets
Where the world refuses to bury all hatchets
War crimes are rampant
Innocence is absent
I saw myself growing up faster, thinking quicker


Where the opposition is brutal
Where mental wounds are fatal
In such a cruel world I exist
All simple joys I continue to resist
As I have to move swifter, I have to act tougher


I envy the ones who have lived before me
No media scrutiny, they lived angst free
The mind is now a dark cloud of grey
The pure and pious seem to have no say
I’ve got to become colder as the path keeps getting rougher


Goodness seems to remain a thing of the past
Infanthood is all the while that the naivety shall last
The world has become smaller and global in the true sense
Yet we have no time to stop all bloodshed and make amends
Debt ridden livelihood thanks to the recession
Guilt ridden conscience thanks to this monetary obsession
I wish my morals were better, I wish my ethics were sounder.


As maturity continues to defy age
Puny teens becoming tougher to gauge
Childhood seems a long lost riddle
The world we live in is my unsolved puzzle
I shall keep solving it harder, keep looking for the answers deeper!



Ready-made Families



Two souls distance apart brought together by fate
Bonding so strong, time’s tides cannot make it abate

She embraced him in her life and so did he
Two hearts bonded with passion and glee

A common passion sparked a plug of camaraderie so true
That passion served as their inseparable glue

They say family is written in the stars elsewhere
Such stereotypes was broken by this far apart pair

This was sibling love between two different souls
Some part of their incomplete lives becoming one whole

They were close all through
As the seed of trust in their hearts grew

Such siblings are the magical tales of this internet generation
Amalgamating souls, their hearts and aspiration

She was his sibling from another house
Bickering and also enjoying, like cat and mouse

He was her friend and adviser
Who wanted her to grow wiser and wiser

Lucky is this generation which can have “readymade” siblings and a soul mate

And can create their own families besides the one provided by fate