end of the time

let’s kill the end of  the time

lest we are turned mortal

by it’s delicate intricacies

that stay suspended at our threshold

from the moment we step a foot in time

let’s kill the end of the time

lest it leads to chaos, unheeded

by the turmoil set deep in our hearts

and take our pride for granted

and we end up being thrown to wolves

these unworthy

strolling around in the garden of Eden

that think not twice before

they pounce upon all and sundry

let’s kill the end of time

with one single stroke of luck

favoured and earned

while we sweated it out

with our minds

pushing around

the wheels of destiny’s cart

lest we land in oblivion

on a starry night

after we forget the path

and stay languishing

for centuries in love’s desert

 

for to reach our souls’ salvation

we need to arrive

where hell and heaven

merge in one and we reach

the end of the time

so shall we

my love

kill this end of the the time

for once and all…

a woman dreams

 

a woman dreams and knit some thoughts

with a thread woven of desires

and she wonders if they need some glue

some kind of binding agent

to keep them from falling apart

or they just hold together

with the intricate design that knits them

 

she wonders if the dreams she envisages

are the lives she has chosen

or are the mirror of the lives

she has been destined to

 

sometimes she wonders

if the dreams she dreamt

are real or are just an opaque image

of her unshed unfulfilled desires?

 

a woman dreams all her sleeping hours

a woman who often

falls asleep while she is not dreaming

for the dreams she has been destined to dream

are not the dreams of the lives

she had been sleep walking through

in one consolidated trance like dream…

 

 

 

 

evening

O’ dear evening do we live or we survive

through this labyrinth these hours knit

across the horizon with blinding light

lives we breathe with every sigh

words we kneed with each finger

airs that throw caution to the winds

light that sings to the tune of darkness

rains deprived of centuries of hunger

hailstorm that kills this grass

flowers that bloom on threshold of drought

skyscrapers that fall short to scarecrows

O’ dear evening please do tell me more…

lonely poem

aren’t we all alone

each one of us

in our own loneliness

or are we all together

into this singular loneliness

 

aren’t we all alone

keeping in tune with loneliness

into this unique lone universe

keeping in pace with ourselves

 

aren’t we all alone

trying to huddle with loneliness

seeping in more of this loneliness

judging by mere appearances

 

aren’t we all alone

deep down trying to reach out

looking up to bare sky

trying out garbs made up of sly

 

aren’t we all lonely

baking a meal out of rye

cooking bones covered with hunger

raking coals with watered ambers

searching for unknown

 

looking up to Gods

created out of sturdy hands

with brains emptied of trust

devoid of faith

in the garb of alien deities

that were erected while

all of us had been senile…

footpath

walk and you are made for each other

paths  that you walk on

roads that you conquer

storms that you encounter

walk in tandem with you

 

walks that you embark upon

are cut out to live for

completely, unconditionally

 

for the walks are the links

that carry this world

on shoulders of days and nights

that you walk by

while being alive

staying awake

walking along

on the footpath of life

 

walks and you are merged in one

when the world stands by

gasping in surprise

awestruck in disguise

 

for the walks are just the elements

invented by you

to conquer the turmoil

and claim yourself

amidst walkers of this strange wide world

walks and you are awesomely

made for each other…