you left
and suddenly i realised
why we started naming storms
after people.

Sometimes, I feel
that the modern world
has traded love, for clarity...

has traded flowery gardens,
for deserts.
has traded stars,
for a picture of stars.
has traded dance and songs,
for analysis.
has traded ecstasy,
for mere control.
has traded heart,
for mind.

has traded life,
for death...

© Manan sheel.

Sometimes saying goodbye to someone
doesn't nearly hurt as much
as saying goodbye to the version of you
that existed alongside them.

your eyes still look familiar
but the looks they give me now are foreign

The path strewn with hurdles and gravels
40 years is a long way to travel
Two souls sewn with love and peace
Two hearts dipped in bliss
Two minds not always in same strength
But determined within to walk the length.

40 years of building the nest
Patience and endurance put to hard test
Before one day the saplings become a tree
Heart upon heart two becomes three
Through fall and rise and sun downpour
Years flew as the three becomes four.

It's no easy work to raise a family
In all sadness live strong and happily
Blocks are thrown doubts are cast
Moments of life try to break the trust
But we didn't bow continued the thrive
A grownup family now, we number five.

They say it's better to lose so you know what to do next time
Ok fine
What if you lost yourself in chaos & the exit you can't find
The person in the mirror seems to have fallen behind
I think I lost its blueprint, I lost its main design
I feel I'm constantly battling on the frontline
Life's wars, hanging on by a lifeline
life's buffet, on me it hungrily dine
I don't see the goal line, I cant see, I'm blind
Is there light in this world, does the moonshine
blinded I'm constantly stepping on land mines
With the voices in my head I'm entwined
telling me I'm not worth any shine
I have no spine, my existence asinine  
leave me alone, I don't want to die
I need to find the light, I need its guidelines
I'm being consumed, fighting, but still in decline
Will it ever change, will my mind ever revive
Until then, skating, I'll stay on the grind

I want to be stuck right here with you
our hearts glued never dream of falling
you my parachute this absolute our connection
written in stone not the rosetta but more
astute. We feel the same I smell it on your
perfume the way you look at me when
we were alone in a room for this reason alone
I will atone in servitude be resolute the aura
you exude is elegant in elegance down to your glossed
lips prevalent


Before us, we felt gagged and unable to breathe
now each other's oxygen our worlds boxed in
staying with you is a blessing a love still progressing
wanna stay even if the weather sway creates a cyclone
without affection, We will break through and let each other in
only together we will make the the world spin you and I
a hurricane for the right reasons.
Stay while we soar on aphrodite wings through seasons