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KV Srikanth Apr 2022
Who wants to be
The joker in the pack
Contrary to what the name suggests
It actually fits everywhere
Can play the role assigned
Without any fanfare
What's in a name
If you can adapt
And be useful to yourself and others
Internalise the essence
Basic common sense
Let go of the tools
After they've been put to use
Bend and give way
Be the most powerful one in the fray
Easiest way is to integrate
Without any struggle
My not pushing the opposition
In the opposite direction
But by welcoming it and giving way
Making it rudderless
Take away the power from it
Use it to your cause
Don't worry about the branding at all
KV Srikanth Apr 2022
The only advantage that the Past has is it has no Surprises for us
The only advantage the Future has is It is never experienced in reality
The only advantage the Present has is it  is the only thing real
KV Srikanth Apr 2022
Hatred keeps the books
Taking stock of every thought words or deed
Revenge is its follow up
Until got spreads venom

Carries lot of baggage
Mind heavy with the luggage
Awaiting a draw
Ready with daggers drawn
Enemies standing  in every corner

A mind so hollow
Wastes time on things so shallow
The fight played in the mind
The shootouts bloodies the rest

Shooter and the shot
Ends up the injured lot
Added it to the log
Deep rooted hatred the fog
Prevents from seeing it all

No greater waste of time
Wishing Ill for someone else
I'll retained affect the imagination
Creating images of opponents everywhere

Bitterness and contempt
Loathing and antipathy
Toxic for the mind and body
Makes the Soul *****

Imaginary adversaries become
Reality
List of friends becoming empty
Reflecting the inside of the body
Mind comes up with new stratergies

Not worth the trouble going through this riddle
With no solutions in it
A labryinth without exit

Drug induced state
Of anger and hate
Step by step process
Start by giving it a recess

Aimless life meandering
Focus on the others falling
No growth for the self
Wishing same for another


Makes you live
In the past
Recalling every negative thought
Present not in the know
Future blinded forever

Balm of forgiveness
Only way out
Before the roots grow stronger
An axe becomes the need of the hour

Addictive in nature
Refuses to leave ever
With age growing mature
Peel off later by layer

Love for oneself
Peace and Rest
Love for others
Tolerance and Forgiveness
KV Srikanth Apr 2022
Intensive care unit
The last step in a ladder
Going to fold forever
A definite indicator

Time to say goodbye
To those who will join you later
Going away earlier
Order of preference not clear

A better day today
Sick people fighting fate
The doctors giving them hope
More days in the universe

Natural form of living
All but gone and clinging
Machines and medicines
to do the trick

Only pain and misery
Old and weary
Their plight raises a question
Crisis of conscience

Lying in the bed with
Faculties not functioning
Organs in a race to stop performing
Beyond the line is it worth continuing
Complete the rest of the sentence as Sick

Medicines and injections
Machines and methods
Adopted with difficulty
Adapted for longevity



Should I hope they survive
Should I want them to loose the drive
Living now no more living
Going through motions awaiting day of reckoning

Lying in the bed with
Faculties not functioning
Organs in a race to stop performing
Beyond the line is it worth continuing

Is it empathy at play
Or plain easy to say
Wait for God to have his way
He will anyway

Joy of living
Fear of dying
Fatigued with disappointments
Enthused with other passions

Breathing on borrowed time
Medicines used to fight time
Suffering the new best friend
Parting with each only while parting

Should they make à
Next set of people on their way
Next door children being birthed
Balance of Equation will play itself out
KV Srikanth Apr 2022
When the heart skips a beat
On seeing the smile
The coalesce strikes a rhythm
To which the soul dances at random

Beauty is the expression
Of the inner person
Without apology or attention
To make an impression

Pretty is to be born
Beauty is to be cultivated
Endowed with purity
Where it reflects the other's face

Ability to see
It in others
Is the greatest quality
Of the effervescent  

The artistry of the walk
The delicate way it comes across
The grace that carries it all
Charm that captures the heart

The face reflects the heart
Elegance is the visiting card
Style is what you are
Alluring mystically to all

Not in the vision of other
Their judgement never mattered
Carrying the self with class
Engulfs every heart

Glamour is with flaws
Attractive inspite it all
The flaws carry symmetry
Unfortunately misses the eye

Pleasing to the eye
Aesthetic to the heart
Locking with the soul
Beauty and behold

Cannot be defined
Timeless and divine
Always a ray of sunshine
Everyone wants to say
Its Mine

Adds power to the woman
Every woman has it in them
Some are not seen by those blinded
Not appreciated but beauty never goes wasted

Beauty is being
Talks through silence
If silence is understood
Every woman is beautiful

How can one be
And the other not
Inherent quality of women
Their very existence is a boon to creation

Beauty is woman
Woman is beauty
Cause of our existence
Carrying ours to future generations
KV Srikanth Apr 2022
Looking back
Decisions taken
Faulty ones
Don't make sense

Knew it beforehand
Taken the right stand
Turn of events favourable
Leading to intended solution

The word mistake
Would be removed
If beforehand we knew
Right or Wrong consequences

Impossible to predict
What is next after this
Event gives the incentive
Staircase wisdom now possible

Options of actions
The one not done
Seems most favoured
Feeling guilty end result


Putting pieces together
Mans greatest blunder
Not destined to happen
Nature intervened in logical conclusions

Errors and mistakes
Nothing to feel irate
In harmony with good and right
Combination makes ones might

Learn the lesson
Move on to the next
Same mistake again
Lessons not learnt

Duty to ourselves
Not repeat the blunders
Outcome not in our favour
Another error not the same
Have to ensure

Don't fail again
For the same reason
As the previous occasions
One less option to ponder

Guilt and heaviness
Replaced with Fulfilled and lightness
Done our best given the condition
Given the option
Do it again
KV Srikanth Apr 2022
Trying to possess
To buy more on the clock
Missing piece of the puzzle
Found to make it complete

Hang on to it
For dear life
Life depended on it
Manipulated for this

Time left here
Not for sale
No discount either
Can't take another

In the hunt
To earn the bucks
Lifestyle lead determine
Success or Failure
Deep pockets come in handy
Nothing wrong in being wealthy
Would be better
If the silver can buy time
Realise that we are spending
To buy time
Which is rationed to us
But the illusion we live
Makes us believe
That time gets extended
More the greenbacks on the table
Time is money
For those interested in returns
Money is time for those interested in staying back
Time cannot be earned  
Or spent
It passes away either way
Rich or poor not determined
By the years in hand
Years less plain unlucky
Given to the highest bidder
Humans  greatest delusion

Yet to read a book
One up on Clocks time
No one knows the game
Double bluffing nature
Not quoted on the exchange
Futures not traded

Even Organs have a price
Humans willing to sell
Put a tag on everything
Mankind's own speciality
Ironically for time
Unable to fix the price
Exchange rate not available
Search on for the seller
Price doesn't matter
Man s strength is his wil
Unfortunately God doesn't Sell
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