Monday, May 16, 2011

The world I call my own


There's something
about this moment.
The wind. The smells.
The sights. The touch.
They stir. They tease.
And they awaken
the deepest of feel,
that lay dormant.
There's something
about this moment.

Everything around collude
to seemingly conspire.
and lead me here
where the writings are
on the wall,
in invisible ink,
all of my heart's desire.

The compelling surge.
The gentle ebb.
Tides, that,
sometimes caress,
sometimes crash
the shore.
Slowly and steadily
seeping in.
A yes. A No.
Of Rights. Of wrongs.
No matter.
I am here-
my world
and
the mystic beyond-
The horizon be
where they merge.

Sunday, May 15, 2011

The Songstress...Prelude to a night


The day broke over the rim
exploding over the azure
in fuchsia and rust.
The pursuit far from over
But fly on I must.

Much wind beneath my wings,
The skies, relentless.
The rugged terrain, ruthless.
Deafening solitude
Spread over
unending miles.
All feeding off my soul
to sate their hunger.
My thirst,
unquenched, stings.

Just when I spiraled
off the dome.
Letting go of a lost cause.
Dazed. Weary.
Abruptly, though, forced off
instead on a scenic route
by a gust so strong.
Half dead, vaguely alive,
as it carried me home.

And I found my song
in the slope of your neck
the arch of your back,
My aching body
resting in your gentle embrace.
The night of love has
just begun
as I make my bed in your arms.
Letting go of everything
frozen in time for so long.

And I wept.
The cursed raven now
morphed to a nightingale.
The dusk draping
over the rim
licking vestiges of  day light.
The dark, a witness
of a fast broken
a promise kept
over a full moon.
And then I wept.

Thursday, May 12, 2011

Do you know?


Would you know,
what it is like
to be both,
at shore yet at sea?
Curling in bitter
horror that love
is blind indeed.
Else,how din't I see?


What everyhing
between you and I
was coming to
an end this sad?
leaving me this empty,
costing me
everything I had?


Caught between
warring psyches.
Trapped in love.
And in my own heart!
Walking away
never to look back
even to say goodbye
as you depart.


You wouldn't
know any of this,
would you?
Having your heart
played with
and kicked about.
No.
I don't think you know.
I doubt.I doubt.

Friday, May 6, 2011

Nothing Less.Nothing More....and beyond.

It ain't much of dream.
Isn't it?
I dint ask
for any promises of
Cinderlla or Snow white,
did I?
Anything of grandeur
or magical as such.
It aint fair
you deny me
even that.
Even when
I dint ask for much.

But ,now,
all of that shall change.
Its been a long wait.
And
I will have it all.
No breath shall
leave me , until
you piece it all
together.
And I am not giving up
till you get off
your high horses.
Until I  have driven you
up the stone wall.
Then you will
see, I shall have it all.

What I asked for
and
what I dint,
Now or before.
Nothing less .
Nothing More.

Nothing less Nothing more

It ain't much
what I ask of.
Yet you deny me.
Not the riches.
Nor the fame.
I really dint ask
for anything as such.
What I ask of you?
It aint much.

I asked for
my hands
to be held.
A shoulder to lean.
To quell my doubts,
my fears.
Whispered assurances
when,inexplicably,
tears swelled.
I dont want to
walk alone.
I just want,
through the journey,
my hands held.

I am one of the millions
girl next door.
My wishes-
Simple.
Obvious.
At times,
pathetically unambitious-
just like most of them.
Nothing less.
Nothing more.
I wanted to be
anything but special
just let me be the
girl next door.
Nothing less
nothing more.

What did I do?
or did not.
That you won't
let me have my dream?
I asked for
a soul to share my
small world with,
someone
with whom-
all the love
life holds and
can give-
I can feel and
rightfully redeem.

Thursday, May 5, 2011

Dear God, Don’t Pop my Bubble.


It may last awhile
but they color our world
In myriad hue
bringing joy
so long as it does
To me
and as much to you.

I close my eyes
wishing
that one could lock in it
the beauty of this world
and all things nice.

So I know each time
I see the ugly side,
it’s still a better place
to be in,
worthy to weather
the rough ride.

Freeze it in time
as something for me
to remember this by.
I hope you are listening!
I wish
there be always
a song in our hearts,
flights of will and
an open sky.

Monday, May 2, 2011

Dream of a nightmare

Does that happen to you?
Every now and then, 
often maybe?

Just when you think
you had it all,
all under control,
glowing in the smugness
of knowing it.
That one is kicked,
deep in the gut.
Knocking the wind off.
Caught-
in a vortex of disbelief-
unguarded and unaware.

When one is sold to the
grand spread of deceit,
The distant bells toll.
It's peals ringing truth 
into your ears
and shivering soul,
like the quaking,slurred speech
of a wizened soothsayer.
And you run 
from
the hideously
gnarled veins on that
bony frame.
And you run from it all
while the distant bells toll.

You struggle
to flee out of reach.
They grasp you,
and lay it all naked and bare.
Whispering in hushed tones,
that waking or not,
some dreams 
do come true,but ,
every now and then
so does a nightmare.

So, does that happen to you?
At times, maybe,
 when you are asleep,
when you are unguarded,
unaware?

Was that a dream? 
A nightmare?
Or dream of a nightmare?





Precarious affections - An ode in retribution of love much lost....

I intend to let you know,
how much I love you,
despite,
your feigned ignorance,
and I shall make your
life miserable
till you drop
that exaggerated pretense.

You thought
you could move on,
get by,breezing past
like I were thin air
that your couldn't see?
Mistaken as you are
and pay you shall.
Only this time
not with rotten,
dated notions of romance
fed to a gullible me.

Don't you see
Why I am doing this?
Out of love.
Love ;
Indeed,you'll see.
The very one you
faked,and
there shall be no letting go,
till you come
back,crawling
on all four.
Begging me back in your
life unto death,
this time in earnest,
going down,
down on your knee.

Remember,
the other day?
when you chided
in passing-A coward-
to not go after
what I wanted?
Well,you better leave
a good eye to
watch your back
because I am right there
making sure you forfeit
every blessing
you thought
you had counted.

I intend to let you know,
how much I love you,
despite,
your feigned ignorance,
and I shall make your
life miserable
till you drop
that exaggerated pretense.