A smile forgotten!

A smile forgotten,

Both eyes are vacant,

Tears rolling up,

In fear of breaking down,

Heart of darkness,

World of possibilities,

If you see it from my eyes,

It's the other way round.

People are torn apart,

Not by the heart but world,

With people whose heart know nothing of humanity,

With fake smiles awaiting vengeance until served,

Gather your wit, aye man! 

For the struggle is quite long,

Either you merge with the horizon,

Or break it even by being strong.

Our foes and worries remained constant

Over the years, we lost more than gained

Be it faith, trust, honesty or wisdom

We had our ways to hurt our expectations

So what's new now,

Politics more than ever,

Is it going to be the end of world?

Or is it just another chapter?

I am dumbstruck,

With the audacity of people creating chaos,

Is it just them?

Or do we also contribute a lot?

Since we do nothing to bring a change,

We are self-consumed in the weather,

blissful life, success and a inevitable better,

Let's take a walk tonight,

Me and you into the possibilities,

Did we do enough?

Or we are too blind 

To submerge in the world of popularity!

She - alone and stranded!

She is leaving her life behind,

But all she can think is if she will lose her identity,

She is stepping into a new life,

But all she can think is if it will be what she had thought.

Throbbing heart, numb brain,

Anxiety popping out her every vein,

All her life she fought for the right,

She stood alone and called out women's plight,

Will she be asked to forsake her beliefs?

Will she capitulate or would she persevere through this grief?

She started her journey with truth,

Declaring she doesn't believe in a few things,

If she were asked to kneel down before a fundamental niche,

She would have preferred to dive right into a ditch.

Who is he?

He who was to stood beside her,

Crawled beneath the bed as soon as families met.

How does he not care if these patriarchal norms hurt her?

He once said, he would do what it takes to protect her,

He promised to work with her against societal guns,

But don't we all know that it's easier said than done,

Love is a beautiful concept,

But love doesn't ask you to sacrifice,

Love nourishes you,

It fights for what you believe in,

It doesn't let you feel stranded amid blinds,

Now she is all alone walking towards something unknown,

Not breathing but gasping for air holding onto her gravestone,

Nobody understands her,

Nobody is there to support her,

She never felt this trapped,

Shouldn't he be beside her navigating her through phases and maps?

But maybe he also fooled himself that he was any different,

When it clearly doesn't affect him the way it breaks her entire system,

And the fact that nothing has changed with her crying over it every night,

Speaks volumes of his strength to fight,

He is a great person but someone who is standing in the middle,

Not able to decide which side he belongs

And not able to understand what makes it so painful,

Nonetheless, she is pushed to juggle through several questions,

Should she kill her beliefs?

Should she kill the relationship?

Or anything that provides her a way out.

Childhood - The Best Rumor!

All our lives, we lived hoping for a fairy tale ending

With being employed to read, play and sleep, childhood seemed a lot less daunting 

No matter how harsh the days were in school,

We came home with a big smile and recklessness as a fool,

We loved to play and read to please,

Little did we know it would turn into an unnerving breeze,

When we grow up, it's what we planned to become,

Today it seems like a rolling empty drum,

Why did we not realize this sooner,

Childhood is the best we had and the best of all rumors,

All our conscious dreams were made of hope,

All our finest choice that fell flat still looked pretty dope,

Let's promise one thing today to not become hopeless,

Forever is we have, let's love, live and laugh in madness.

The still waters of Swaroop Sagar!

I am sitting by the window staring out,

At the still water, pigeons en route,

To god knows where but they were so quick,

As a flash that my phone couldn't click,

Or capture anything near to their presence,

All I could capture was merely an essence,

Of how beautiful it all looked,

Barren of wind, completely unhooked,

Of tourists, bustle and commotion,

Yet it was equally devoted of historic emotions,

With several marble pavillions guarding its borders,

Commemorating royal families and their affairs in order,

Alas, the view will come to an end,

As I depart from this beauty against,

All odds in favors, all hearts won,

My one week long weekend,

Will soon come to an end,

I will have to re-enter the reality,

Of 9 to 5, never-ending day to day materiality,

I wish there was a vacancy away from mediocre chores,

To be a bird and stay here permanently afloat!

Gathering wit of lifetime

Gathering wit of a lifetime

he stanched upon the uphill

Stumbled once, stooped to the downtown

rose again, brisking the second time

Ankle twisted and fell right on the ground

bestirring himself, sprinting the third time,

reached the sharp summit, panting with awe

an unearthing joy, a melody within

a heart docked under the tombs,

I won, I won, shouted he who never won before

Look past me, I overcame failure finally in life

They who saw him didn't understand,

because all he did was scramble up a shallow hillside

For them, it was unchallenging and elementary

merely a habit of routine life,

what they didn't comprehend

was he who succeeded didn't give up

even after failing for three times,

When he heard those words of wisdom

he laughed, smirked and said,

What is easy for you might be unattainable for me,

I am no poor,

you are no rich,

I am no blind,

I see the cause of your eye twitch,

Laugh your heart out,

Because you don’t scare me,

I won today

I will win again

Because I just learned to control my fate!

Tired Soul!

Yes, I am tired!
Tired of waiting for you,
Yes, I am tired!
Tired of looking out for you.
Yes, I am tired,
Tired of getting my hopes high
Every time I look at you,
Seems like my stomach has butterflies
Do you even like me?
Or was it just a crush?
Are you ever gonna ask me!
Or waiting for me to move first?
Do you even think of me?
Because all I think is of you
Do you even want me?
I have been wondering that too.
Shit as hell, life has been
I give up on you today
not that it would make any difference to you.

Who am I?

When I am young, you sprinkle water on me,

When I am huge, you lay me off for amenities,

You build your home with bits of my blood,

But you run towards me when out of breath.

I recently saw a trailer full of timber wood,

Pushing its way out of the neighborhood,

Were those trees fully grown?

Or did you cut them before they could even moan?

I watched a few of you plant trees on the porch,

I was relieved to see humanity restored,

But then, someone yelled, ‘grow trees, save the earth,’

Posing for the camera and the cheer for what it’s worth.

The world has changed as the economy,

If you cut me down for a reason, grow more of me,

Don’t fall short of kindness and humanity,

And don’t keep me alive as a courtesy.

I am not human, I am a tree,

I am alive now, but who knows what the next moment could be?

You could either let me breathe or let me die,

But you won’t possibly know unless you try.

Deforestation seems about me,

And all it is to you is about charity,

But let me remind you of a real-life lesson,

Humans only breathe because of me.

 

Tickle down your spine!

I am running against the time,

I am a flip of a coin,

I am a tickle down your spine,

What am I?

You are chasing me down a tunnel,

You are living amidst few kennels,

You are cycling without a peddle,

Who are you?

She breathes on the air you exhale,

She stomps feet as light as snail,

She is chasing you down by tail,

Where is she?

He is walking towards you still,

He senses you but you can't feel,

He mustn't rewind you onto the reel,

Why did he?

We have grown with years of experience,

We went from shy to bold and boring to mysterious,

We grew close and fell apart through periods

When did we?

I am everything you dream of but never achieve,

You are everything I aspire but can never be,

She is on a dream of beauty, health and happiness that I never attain,

He is long gone years that you constantly crave,

We walked miles and miles and never moved on,

It is the life and today that we constantly refine upon!

You are my constant!

You are my warmth,

You are my solace,

You are everything I ever wanted,

You are the music to my chords.

Why can't you be my constant?

Remind me of times when I run to you,

For every fight I had,

For every mess I got myself into,

All you said was it's going to be fine.

And it brought back the courage and pulled me through,

I see you wanting the same things as me,

Then why can't you be my constant?

I can't fight anymore,

Do it on my behalf,

I can't win this,

Only you can make me laugh,

Because you are my constant.

For my cheeks ache with fake smiles,

My heart is as cold as dry ice,

We walked for long and enough,

Hoping things would change for better,

All i see is a dark tunnel,

With us sitting in separate handcars,

Running for our dreams amidst a war,

Racing not towards but against the wind,

Chasing not one but two different dreams.

Shifting dilemma if you are my constant,

I may give up,

I may kill the fun,

I may be a bitter soul,

But i am hoping every moment,

That you be my constant.

Until you start to live again...

It never matters how much you cry,

It never stops hurting no matter how much it hurt before,

It never changes even when you stay still for a while,

It never gets better no matter how much you fight.

But your eyes understand emotions after a certain while,

But your heart stops hurting and learns to slowly recover from wounds,

But you take a break to breathe and prepare yourself to walk again,

But you learn to fight and survive better than last.

You never forget to love who left,

You never unlive memories you regret,

You never undo what isn't right for you before it  begins,

You never understand why things don't go your way.

But somehow someone else becomes equally important,

But bad memories somehow start to fade away,

But it starts to seem wrong when things go awry,

But experience takes over and you stop complaining.

It never seems to be the same for everyone no matter how closely related you are,

It never burns less no matter how many times you go through flames,

It never becomes easy to jump off the cliff no matter how many times you dived in,

It never comes back to life no matter how many times you water the scorched plant.

But you learn from what they go through and handle things better,

But you know what didn't kill you made you stronger,

But you plunge head first into water knowing you can fight anything,

But you sow seeds of dying plants and let it reborn again.

It never...

But...

It never...

But...

This goes on...

Forever...

Until you start to live again...!