A Journey…Interrupted but Continued

Woken up from the trance of love
Allow me to embrace the world as it is…
Let me feel the rhythm of life…
To discover what I lost but never realized

I seek to keep the pain with me
Just as a souvenir of the happier times
To experience the joy of success
To be the master of my own fate

Its been a long time since I felt the caress of your warmth
The joyride of my desires screeched to a halt
But, life, refuses to slacken its pace…
So, I keep up, the wound just a prickling scar of the past

I seek to undo the hopelessly complicated knot…
But, what is the fun, if life lies solved?
So, I leave it by…and move ahead…
Seeking to face the waves as they come…

Phoenix Burning

Dawn came upon me with her gentle caress
With the beautiful reminder that night is past
Her warmth drove the pain away
I took flight on the strength of her kiss

The beckoning infinity emboldened me
I spread my wings…in the mad desire
To hug those beautiful clouds
Her companionship made me forget all wishes to land

My wings of fire took us to new heights
Rising on the crest of every wind swell
Soaring gracefully in tandem
All inhibitions left far…far below

My shadow unseen in the ground arose inside me…
It engulfed me…as you left me…
So, here I am at the end of another beginning
Crashed into night…I am the phoenix…burning…

Wait

Bereft of all emotions
Windswept and raped
I stand free…

Robbed of sorrow
Happy and numb
I stand silent

Denied of sunshine
Cold and hidden
I stand alone…

Life in hand
A song on my lips
I stand dreaming…

Here I am
Standing…Waiting…Desiring…
That eternity will end

Tonight

Tonight I can dance
Just to let go…
To forget that they are watching
All those fools who are judging

Tonight I can sing…
To the tune of dawn’s harp
Just to play hard to get
For all those who took me for granted

Tonight I can write…
Just for the joy of creating
Just to anger them
To break the rules they set

Tonight they have come to jeer…
All those who hurt and haunted me
All those who killed the dreams they made me dream…
So tonight…I break free…

The Tree

The moon smiles at the gnarled tree
Rugged…Hollowed…
Ugly with scars of forgotten battles

No one knows why it stands…
Braving the mockery of the winds
Hiding the pain in some dark corner of his wooden heart…

Hope has become the greatest curse for him
Sunshine its greatest enemy…it bares him for the world to see
Rain gives the final blow…the fatal mockery of someone he adored

Yet he stands…
Remembering the music rain played on its leaves
The shivers that arose when she encompassed him

Now he wishes some merciful axe-man
Would come his way…
But no one has time for a useless knotted tree…

So he stands…
With cruel reminders of a beautiful past
Is it pity he feels for himself ?


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If You Can

If you can believe…lets take flight
Overcome our boundaries
Forget what could have been better
And together explore the azure infinity

If you can trust…come hold my hand
Let’s take a walk along the forgotten pathways…
Leave behind our footprints in the age old dust
And together welcome the new dawn

If you can fight…lets snatch immortality
Be larger than life in this petty rat race
Survive like a lighthouse through the storm of time
And together force our demons to see defeat…

If you can love…come lets spread it
Bring a smile on those parched lips…
A healing touch to those in pain
And together carry forward the torch of humanity

Is it asking for too much…
From the only rational animal
If you can…please make it true
And together all of us lets say…we can.

Memory

The narrow by-lanes of my memory beckon…
Asking me to forget the fetters of time
And lose myself in the idle reminiscence
Of the day when I watched you dance in the rain

The silent mansions of my memory call…
Urging me to knock once again on the forgotten doors
To call on you and say
Hello, I’ve come again…

The peaceful graveyard of my memory seduces…
Tempting me to exhume the phantoms
Of a dark past
Luring me back to the nightmares I left behind

My old friend, my memory waits…
His all-knowing patience angers me…
He knows I’ll keep coming back
To meet him forever and a day