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!