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May 2022 · 69
DAYS
KV Srikanth May 2022
Live life today
Make it  beautiful
Whatever may happen
Not our decision
Handle it with perspective
Tomorrow it becomes a memory
Start a collection of wonderful memories
That is the best story
You can tell yourself
Things go as planned
Nothing greater
If not then God has taken over
Either way in safe hands
You survived till today
Remember that all day
Live it with a purpose
One step closer
To your goal
Follow your teachers
Recall their lessons
Application makes the difference
Watchful with your words
Respect the elders
Thankful to everyone
You are where you are
Because you deserve to be
Life is unfair
You react by being fair and square
When the clock shows
The same time again
If you retain the oneness
Your heart will give you the answers
That you did the process
Think feel act and react
Keeping the senses intact
Go to sleep without any guilt
You could not have done better
Even if you had faltered
Learn the lessons
That life teaches you today
Falter again but never for the same reason
Let the day treat us as it befits us
Become better that next time it shows you more respect
Rays of hope and faith
Allow it to lead the way
Have a great day
Fulfilled with no regrets
Pleased and hurt
Good and bad
Happy and sad
Smooth and broken
With the tide or against it
As darkness fills the sky
Hope for the ray of sunlight
The day after will bring with
If you do wake up
Be grateful for the time offered
Live like it' is your last day
React like you have many years to stay
Relax like you don't know how many days have been saved
Be the day that will come again
To live it again
Or comes again and you are missing
Congratulations you've gotten your promotion
May 2022 · 86
MOVE ON
KV Srikanth May 2022
Move on from what holds you on
Ordeal that makes you stall
Stops time and rewinds it
Makes you relive it
Move on Away from it all
Plays games with your mind
Gives examples of a similar kind
Tells you its time for you to find
Time to get even
Move on  from these thoughts
Housing these rejections
Convictions coated with poison
Convinced about the reasons
To teach people a lesson
Move on at breakneck speed
Before contemplating a single deed
Drinking poison hoping
The other man will die
Or hoping the opposition takes the poison
Does not change a thing
For you
Unless their death gives you a sense of conquest
Move on as far as you can
Harm and insults
Never made anybody
Feel better about somebody
There fall not your rise
Move on from this process
Puts a complete stop to progress
A new day every day
Judgements delivered yesterday
Forgiven and forgotten today
Move on ahead taking it dat by day

No reverse gear
No rear view mirror
No backup recorded
Reusable thought process prohibited

Move on from the past
Move on from the thoughts
Move on from the feelings
Move on till you exist no more
May 2022 · 230
REPEATEDLY
KV Srikanth May 2022
A burden called the Past
A fear called the future
One we know everything about
Another we know nothing about
Knowledge and Ignorance
Are the greatest assets
Mortgaging them in return for burden
Is like  not the brightest light in the box
Going in a wild goose chase
Looking for a grindstone to blossom into a rose
Engaged in Sisyphean task of counting to infinity twice
May 2022 · 82
SHADOWS
KV Srikanth May 2022
The Evening shade casts it's gray
Shadows back in their place
Appearing and disappearing
Are they a part of me
Imitating my every act
On purpose do not react
Imitation is the best form of flattery
Is my shadow flattering me?
Irony of darkness
Birthed itself from light
Rise or Set
The Sun regrets

Afraid of his shadow
Tells a tale of wow
Light nearby creating this illusion
A mere scientific evidence
Illusion of darkness shines bright
Bright lights of the Sun seems
Lurid
May 2022 · 88
SALOON
KV Srikanth May 2022
Hair style till it adds
Beauty to oneself
Looking good in his own eye trying to look better in the mirror
At the saloon during a haircut
The same hair treated worse than dust
Treated with shampoo conditioner and gel
Now brushed away from the body the second it falls in us
An analogy to life none greater than the hair
If you are where you are supposed to be you get the respect even without asking
The second there is no need for use
Even your presence will be looked down upon and ignored forever
A fall from a position
Help find the true friend
May 2022 · 87
NURSE
KV Srikanth May 2022
They see you take
Your first breath
And see you unable
To take one more
Birth side and Deathbed
Companions you can trust

They go beyond
The call of duty
Null the incapacity
Ailment makes no difference
Their presence by preference

Mind body and soul
They touch deeply
Do that daily
What else is divinity ?

Responsibility without Authority
Treated as a nobody
Their names not even in memory
Witness the wrong end of humanity

Things others will cringe
Even to hear about
They go about devout
Day in day out
Nights not to be left out

Death s biggest battle
In ensuring its success rate
Is the nurse that stands
Between life and being laid to rest

Compassion Caring Courage
Considerate composed calm
Courteous consistent cognitive
Confident Concerned curative

They prevent illness
Bring about wellness
Your health their motto
Only goal they follow

Manage Educate Advocate
Detect Counsel Educate
Honesty and ethics their core
The Gallup poll says so

Pride and dignity
They possess in excess
They share it with the patients
Who loose it in sickness


Let us bow
Forever beginning now
Their lives that they forego
Salute their spirit the least we can bestow

They loose themselves
Caring for others
We find ourselves
In the care that they share
May 2022 · 75
PRIORITY
KV Srikanth May 2022
Living trying to satisfy
Other people's needs
Is a life well spent
Weaker than us
In all walks of life
Only if God had intended otherwise
Priority to their well being
Over our own safekeeping
Thoughts and Feelings
Empathetic towards the needs
Compassion sows the seeds
Grateful that the opportunity
To help the needy
Was given to us by the Almighty
Your number is up
Staring at death's alley
That you held someone's hand
God is holding your other hand

The safe deposit locker
That you take with you
As baggage to be calculated
The only currency that has value

The good that you
Did to others
Selfless service to mankind
Is the only thing gauged
Granting glory and immortality
May 2022 · 50
INVITED
KV Srikanth May 2022
Happiness does not
Have an address
Sorrow searches for one
Finds many rather easily
Unfortunately there's place for only one
Invited to stay without rent
Pay interest by handing over peace
Vacating to give it on a lease
Sorrow looms larger
Than the problem that created it
Makes you focus on it
Rather than solving the issue that birthed it
The more the attention it seeks and gets
The stronger it becomes
Happiness and Satisfaction
Gone long and far
No more visible to the heart
And seems impossible to attain in thought
May 2022 · 68
GREATNESS
KV Srikanth May 2022
Patriotic to his Country
Loyalty to his Empire
Heroic in his Battles
Gallant in his Warfare
Eloquent in his Speech
Astute as a Politician
What more quality
Can a man be endowed with
An epitome of character
A pinnacle of Manhood
No mother had a better son
Envied by the Sun and the Moon
When the heart interferes
Wrong way the ship steers
Logic looses its fears
Eyes cry shedding tears
For the woman who in the heart endures
With beauty ensures
Away from everything she's lured
The power of love
Can launch a 1000 ships
Can sink them too
Born with qualities
Others would die for
Loosing all of them
To die for lust
Heart wanting what it always wanted
Everything steps aside
Knowing it is fighting a loosing battle
Aware that he too will loose the battle
Carved by poets and play wrights   gaining immortality
Even Shakespeare inscribed
The respect he gave
Genre not clear
Is it what to be
What not to be
Whatever you are to be
Whatever you are you need not be
Two lives you can lead
One an example of Glory
Another for ignominy
A lesson in Love
Where sacrifice is worth even loosing immortality
Or is it the love for which all the glory was left behind
Left time behind too
Too last many a lifetime
Perspective of the life
Of Marc Anthony
Can teach one very simply
The truth about life
Living it Living it Dying for it
May 2022 · 232
CEASE / EXIST
KV Srikanth May 2022
I exist therefore I am
I am therefore I exist
I ceases to exist therefore I am
I am ceases therefore i ceases
I exist therefore i ceases
I ceases therefore i alone exist
I exist and i cease
I am therefore i am
I do not exist I do not cease
I am not therefore I do not
May 2022 · 83
TRUE FRIEND
KV Srikanth May 2022
He lives your sorrows and Joys
Like it were it his own
He is the light of your life
And the light to your darkness
He's the might to your meekness
Shadow to your body
Echo to your mind
He inspires you to be what
You want to express yourself to be
He's the harmonica to your voice
The side car to your bike
Interchange positions as you like
With you for life
May 2022 · 64
THE SAVIOUR
KV Srikanth May 2022
Meek and Weak
Fearful of everything
That I see
Afraid of People Events and even Ghosts
Never lived my life
Frightening self carried myself
Deep at the core
Stuck in a dead end
Nowhere to turn
Met my saviour in Jeet Kune do
The philosophy founded by Bruce Lee

The movies that he acted
Only more and more reenforced
That the God of Anti Bullying
Was standing on the silver screen
Right before my eyes
His Fighting Skills His Philosophies and his Quotes
Made living of increased quality
Quantum of fear doubled down i guess
Faced eye to eye
Ready to die

Down and out
Ready to play relay
With cowardice in my thought and heart
Come to terms with mediocrity
Pushed around daily

Drowning in this
Self pity the worst
Saved me Bruce Lee
His Teachings now lead
The way i see life
Upside down he did
Made my life a lot smoother

Life's blur was becoming clearer
Therapeutic and Zen like
Very few remanants   of my former self
All i surrender to the great Saviour Bruce Lee
May 2022 · 72
MEMORY LOSS
KV Srikanth May 2022
I don't remember what I want to say
I say whatever I I don't know I am saying
I keep asking the he question who am i
And the people around me don't seem to remember me because they are blank to me.
I used to forget where I kept my keys
I now don't know where keys are used
Objects don't engage
They are irrelevant tu o my existence
Who were we and what are we doing
What are those two hands for ?
Why do people get angry with me if I don't  know them !
What is death and to whom does it come will i know then?
Does life have a meaning ? Or death have one ?
Only those who recognise life need to worry death .
May 2022 · 64
BRAIN CELLS
KV Srikanth May 2022
A progression that causes regression
Step by step memory cells erosion
Spiralling down mental condition
Billions of dollars not enough to find the solution

Protein forming deposits
Brain cells cemented
First steps of the stages chartered
7 more to go to complete what it started

Memory loss a signal
Becoming a prisoner
Attention span shortened
Learning process permanently halted

Degeneration of the human
Body mind and soul
With no recourse
A life sentence of dependence for no fault of theirs

I'll treated once affected
Brain can't process the full effect
Their state taken to advantage
Cursed and beaten knowing it is safe

Immediate Death better bet
Than to suffer till death
Wrong disease at the wrong time in the wrong hands
Crucifixion seems like heaven

Lying alone in a room
Bed and dress wer with *****
Food and water given in ration
All depends on the mood swings of the dependant person
May 2022 · 99
ROOMMATE
KV Srikanth May 2022
Be like the bamboo
Gives way to the Storm
Comes back to its position
After the storm is gone

Be flexible in your approach
Rigidity never opened doors
Learn to give in
Its ok if the other man wins

Use the path
Of minimum resistance
Be one with the opponent
Converting his strength as yours

Honestly express yourself
Not being fake or putting up a facade
In thoughts and actions
Let there be no pretense

Be spontaneous and aloof
Practice spontaneous action
Adapt like a shadow
Respond like an echo
May 2022 · 90
MOONLIGHT
KV Srikanth May 2022
Resplendent and divine
One day of the month
Absent and Darkness
A fortnight later
Complete to Empty
Transition monthly
Comes with darkness
Shines with the stars
Accessible to mankind
Yet seems so far
Brings with it
Beauty and glory
Known for the dark sides of many stories
Brings with it an eerie silence
Its reflection on the water fable
Zen buddist favorite example
Beauty it is
Reflecting the Sun
Duty on borrowed glory
A character in many a story
A companion for loneliness
Meditative in its travel
Watch it and it unravels
Reflecting your heart
Cleansing your soul
Solitudinarian s best friend
Greeted by empty streets and
People under the sheets
Provides the best ambience
Mother nature's instructions
Romance and Dinner
Under the moonlight
A magic sight it provides
The light it provides in Darkness
Is the sanity and hope it provides mankind
Moon leads the way for the heart
As the Sun does to thoughts
Plays supporting role
To the prevalent tenesplendorbrosity
Never prides on its
Leaves it to its audience to be the racounter
May 2022 · 205
IS WAS
KV Srikanth May 2022
Is it as it was,
What it was ?
Was, what it was?
It is ,what it is
It is not ,what it was.
Why is not ,
Is and was ,
Was and is?
Is is was?
Was is is?
Was is was?
Is is is?
Is not was?
Was not is?
Was is, is was!
Is was ,was is!
May 2022 · 84
HELL
KV Srikanth May 2022
A personal experience
Did get my deliverance
Not until after going the distance
With abuse of substance

Never had a drink
Till i was 20
None offered it to me
Peer pressure no logic

Wanted to encounter
To know what it feels like
An inebriated state of condition
Where you loose your inhibitions

Not to feel left out
In the midst of those who passed out
Occurrences in the high far out
Demons of addiction taking  steps  out

Unaware of my character
Addiction or Abstinence its main feature
Galloped on the track of dependence
To a future awaiting to be spent in repentance

Craving for more and more
Liquor bottles more at my door
Than at the store
Nothing else i remember

From the bottles straight up
Tolerance levels made even alcoholics sit up
One more quicker than the next
Even the bottles screamed give it a rest

Addiction in an equation
Equalling to self esteem
Increase the valency
Equares to nullity

House of warmth
Turns into hell
Family at a dead end
Peace showing its stop sign

Rages and Rants daily occurence
Violence and defiance same direction
Tolerance grievance at the other end
Hindrance to prudence leading to indifference

Relationships gone south
Friendship loosing its clout
Engaged with liquor in a boxing bout
Getting tipsy every round you loose

Respect relationship friendship
Not even in the viscinity
Alone Addicted and miserable
No one left in the false fantasy

Reputation at home
Neighbourhood and work
Now a laughing stock to preach
Sympathetic towards the other members
No fault of theirs humiliate

Begging and stealing
No more wrong
Left guilt by the wayside
When the bottles lay bedside

Years gone by
Not aware of days that went by
Living in a timeless state
Till time ends living on the due date

Extinct to family
Extinct to friends
Extinct to colleagues
Extinct to self

No bigger crime
Family in the grind
For you to find
Ways to the deep end

Take the  first sip
Keys to hell unlocking its gates
Living in hell already the state
Hell learns a lesson by observing your fate
May 2022 · 79
GLORY
KV Srikanth May 2022
The painter imagination
Would make mother nature jealous
The joy that inhibits her heart
Expresses itself as art
Nature will not steal her glory
By making this a reality
May 2022 · 139
EACH OTHER
KV Srikanth May 2022
What greater gift
Does one need
Than a best friend
Sharing happiness and grief

This goes beyond sharing
In joy and sorrow they are one
Have always been that way
Their souls would have been painted by Monet

Never alone or lonely
With a friend always nearby
They don't live in our world
They created their own and made us envious

Don't need anyone else
Sufficient with themselves
Everyone would want to be included
Friendship so deep rooted
They don't require anybody else
May 2022 · 68
HUNGRY/THIRSTY
KV Srikanth May 2022
A Zen monk
Popular in his town
Sits with his disciples
Gives talks and was renown

A student of another master
Came to visit the teacher
Was not impressed with the manner
Convinced he knew no further

Confronted the teacher
And told him about the Greatness of his master
Recounting his powers
He gave many examples

My master can stand
On one side of the banks
Look at some one standing
Across the river in the other bank
Pull out a leaf from a tree
And with just his fingers
Draw the person on the leaf
Would be so accurate
You can't find any mistake

What such powers
Do you possess
Why do so many
People converge in your presence

The teacher answered
I have no such skill
I know only two things in life
When I'm hungry i eat
When I'm thirsty i drink
May 2022 · 80
SUPERSTAR
KV Srikanth May 2022
Superstar starring screening
Seconds seem slowing
Surround sound seating
Superlative scenes sustaining
Stagecraft  superior signifying
Spectators Startled  Staggering
Subsequent show seeing
Showstopping skill  showcasing
Suave sartorial  styling
Stunned silence signalling
Spirited  synchrony Soul stiring
May 2022 · 72
BRUCELEEIST
KV Srikanth May 2022
An ardent follower
Of Bruce Lee the philosopher
Fan of his movies
Watched them repeatedly
Movies are not classics
But a Religon
His life a lesson
To be learnt in the present
Be Water he said famously
Follow the thought deeply
Jeet Kune do his philosophy
Use it to navigate life successfully
Multi talented Polymath
Try and emulate as much as you can
Martial Artist Philosopher Actor Writer Director Producer Poet Teacher
So many facets and more
God of Anti Bullying
A saviour of the bullied
Weaker in any form
He is the go to form
Internalise and implement
His teachings and his life
Yours you will not regret
An answer for every question he has
Eternally popular generations later
Kids by the time they reach
The age if 8
Have heard of his name
Came for a purpose
Lived by example
Taught by gaining wisdom from his own seeking
Left an everlasting impact
Will exist till the universe ceases
A realised soul
Anyone who knows all this
Is a BRUCELEEIST
May 2022 · 88
SAVAGE
KV Srikanth May 2022
Destiny took a turn
When i was four
Had vision problems
Could not see the black board

Forced to wear glasses
Bearing very high power
In the early seventies
Not very sophisticated

Thick and heavy
Layered and awkward
Wearing one to see
One in my bag for emergency

Became a target in school
For teachers and students alike
A victim to bully
No other target was easy

Called names like 4 eyes
They would take away my glasses
Not return it for houses
Almost blinded and struck by fear

The teachers were no less
Would catch their eye
With my conspicuous frame
A lane target my vision to blame

Savage in their treatment
Would get hit on my knuckles
As a form of punishment
Steel scale used as a weapon

Like a disease it spread
Neighbourhood was no less
Jokes would be made
Everyday put to shame

The frames weight
Would bring it down
Held by my nose bridge
I'd push it back to eye level

Did not realise
It looked silly and funny
Branded as a nut
Parents were summoned to school to call me a lunatic

The name stuck
Followed me forever
Playing Table Tennis my passion
One more place to be the victim

Same story different place
Match announced but never let me play
Held on to my glasses and racquet and made me beg
No respite for no fault of mine

Teachers Students Neighbours
Principal Vice Principal and others
No place to hide
Wherever i went always bore the brunt

Confidence took a beating
Started compulsive lying
Called out on every lie
Liar tag attached to the cuckoo already there

Abused made fun of beaten and targeted
Weakest link in any chain was guaranteed
Became the image that was projected
Helpless in solitary i used to cry

Tried to become likeable
Instead of being sensible
People pleasing would do the  miracle
Wrongly assumed the bigger became the battles

Trampled upon for no reason
Father's pet a new reason
Life at home was catching up
Only place left was filling up

Wanted to study in America
Not fit for decided my sister in law
She wanted to go before i had no idea
My I 20 was sent back saying no such person existed

Life at a dead end
Competition with me for no reason
Pushed life to the brink
Wanted me to fully sink

Father's favourite son
Went unpunished for every sin
The impression in people's thoughts
How wrong they were by far

First time for my father
Didn't know how to handle
Was as boxed in a corner as i was
I was getting the punches he was bleeding in his heart

Bully the word that sums it all
Bullied was all my life what i was
Me for being myself that is all
What was my fault ?

A victim of bullying
Shooed away by many human beings
All walks of life treated like a worm
Finally turned to Bruce Lee the God of Anti Bullying
May 2022 · 182
DYSLEXIA
KV Srikanth May 2022
The numbers on the board
Did not understand a word
Number and word
Identical it appeared

Numbers dancing in my head
Already overload of baggage inside
Saw others at ease it with
Made me more nervous than it already is

Words were jumbled
I couldn't even mumble
Writing alphabets a task
B and D s Were D s and B s

Affected my learning
Crippling my understanding
Did not know i was dyslexic
Results in exams were tragic

Above average intelligence
Socially likeable amongst friends
Grasping with common sense
Had no problem hence

A rarity in occorunce
Great men overcame this detterant
I did too with perseverance
No regrets clarity in my vision and vision
May 2022 · 88
CHALK
KV Srikanth May 2022
The white chalk
In the black board
Reducing in size
Spent its life parting knowledge

Akin to a candle
Burning itself to give light
At the hands of a teacher
Imparts knowledge sacrificing itself

The purpose it is used
Does not stay forever
Erased by an eraser
Invented to prevent its staying power

Helps the teacher
Helps the student
Helps build  education
Helps the institution

Unfairly compared to cheese
A malpractice by the traders
Centuries ago to increase quantity
Put  in bad light for no fault of it

Unfairly compared to cheese
A malpractice by the traders
Centuries ago to increase quantity
Put  in bad light for no fault of it

Serves its purpose
Doesn't discriminate others
Its usefulness and its presence
Used like a ladder only to be not missed later

To be emulated
Sacrificed and not
commonerated
Birthplace of erudition
Impartial the world is an learned  place

Rivers Oceans the Sun and The stars
Used as examples of how selfless you are
Alphabets already written for the next generation
Add the Chalk to your gratitude list
May 2022 · 76
EXTRA
KV Srikanth May 2022
Trying to become
A big star
In the movies
Not everyone is lucky
Aspiring actors many
Tried and failed plenty
Trying to earn a penny

No other choice
Still hear their inner voice
Seen ordinary guys turn into celebrities
Green room their only known territory
End up as movie extras
Known as background artist
Tough life waiting to be called
Every extra thinks he's the next superstar
Irony in the fact
Evidence in their favour

Their dreams destroyed
Settled into their new avataar
Part of show biz
Last choice in their list

Part of  crowd scenes
Indistinguishable face no one noticed
A fellow extra the neighbour befriended
Who' also was rejected

Trying to become
A big star
In the movies
Not everyone is lucky
Aspiring actors many
Tried and failed plenty
Trying to earn a penny

No other choice
Still hear their inner voice
Seen ordinary guys turn into celebrities
Green room their only known territory
End up as movie extras
Known as background artist
Tough life waiting to be called
Every extra thinks he's the next superstar
Irony in the fact
Evidence in their favour

Their dreams destroyed
Settled into their new avataar
Part of show biz
Last choice in their list

Part of  crowd scenes
Indistinguishable face no one noticed
A fellow extra the neighbour befriended
Who' also was rejected

Weather and conditions
Not taken into consideration
In costume for entire call sheet
No choice but to make peace

Part of the scenery
They add the authenticity
Movie making efforts collaborative
They add to the narrative

No reason to be treated badly
Dreams did not come true
Written in their destiny
Statistically impossible must have chosen carefully

A profession with dignity
Uncredited or bit parts
Terms as these don't to justice
Things didn't work out as promised

Imagine a movie
Done away with them fully
Watching a movie makes you realise
That you are watching a movie

No greater blunder
Than to make the audience aware
To draw them into the story
Rests on the burden these extras carry

In front of the camera
Everyone is an actor
Behind the camera
Everyone is a crew member

Know their value
Added to keep it true
Name not in the titles
If not for them there is no Title
May 2022 · 72
IT IS
KV Srikanth May 2022
Going with the flow
May take you away from your goal
The heart wants what it wants
Life gives what it gives

Life sings a tune
You just play along
lyrics don't fit the tune
Bad luck the song will not be born

How i respond
My hearts door ****
Balance sheet shows
My debts have been written off

Flexibility and Expression
Two paths to a destination
Combine them in harmony
Honesty without lament

Check the box
First is merit
Last is merit
Tick it and you're in

Unable to do
Let it go
Leave it will anyway
Trouble will be saved

Unique in every way
Remain that way
Duplicating is the veil
Image takes over the  real

Passion ousts work
Work ceases to be work
No hours seperately dedicated
Every minute is

Deducing life logically
Precedes living it fully
Make it easy coming to terms with the fact that
It is what it is
May 2022 · 77
PANGS
KV Srikanth May 2022
I don't feel
Pangs of separation
We never said goodbye
Cause we ain't apart

I don't miss her
She lives in my heart
I don't talk to her
She is in my thoughts

She is in me
I know for sure
By the way she responds
Even for my glance

I will never
Make her mine
Destiny decided otherwise
Not in my hands


Destiny can win
Only if i forget
If my mind goes blank
She is the blank

Void in me
Her absence caused
Deserving i should be
How can I fight with god

A lesson learnt
Everything seems precious
Till the day
You own it

Letting go of her
I did not
Had to live life
Plans i was not part of

Precious she remains
Daily living travails
Her being here
One more miracle i expected

In love and in life
Not in sync with each other
Life is love
Only if you're living it
May 2022 · 64
JACK & GENE
KV Srikanth May 2022
Why didn't Gene Hackman
Do a movie with Jack Nicholson
Swirling  in a loop
I see their biographies lying around
Writing a Screenplay
With both staring
May not materialize
I don't care
Atleast there will be one
Only me in the audience
Made the film
Without the actors
Watching it alone with the actors
May 2022 · 104
BEST FRIEND
KV Srikanth May 2022
Core of my childhood
Standing tall till adulthood
Central theme of existence
Is a best friend coexistence

Love the very concept
When identified and accepted
By society as friends
Who stood the test of time

Divinity brings together
Souls in sync with each other
Destiny united a brother
From another mother

His victory mine
My defeat his
Sorrows we share
Two bodies one soul

Lay out life
On the line
For one another
Take the world
Enimity on together

Come across as
Two but see one
Any other way
Not acceptable ever

Eat drink together
Life death together
This entire lifetime
Future lives too

Experiencing the above
Is absolute happiness
Friend for company
Is a soul without worry
May 2022 · 65
JUSTICE
KV Srikanth May 2022
Equal to all
Partial to none
Right in the middle
Before decision done
Emotion has no role
Justice not a dole
It is the right of the wronged
Where a wrong is set right
By balancing the scale
Not tilting sideways
All things equal
None or all
To all concerned
Nothing done special
Meritocracy the defining authority
Moral code of conduct ensures
Equality
Deserving get their due
Denied by the lack of it
Scales of justice
Scales not in balance
Weighing the merits against each other
Sword to embody power
Snake at her feet
Depicting  cruelty
Blindfolded to signify
She is wise
Final verdict delivered
Justice .oves forward
May the right
Man win
Sells only in front of her
May 2022 · 98
SHARING
KV Srikanth May 2022
This injury not
Worth your worry
None had the power
To take your beauty away
On the outside and inside
You shine like a star filled sky
You radiate charm
Lucky is the injury
Can borrow your elegance
Large hearted to share it
Makes you more attractive
Made fun of by others
Does not matter
Throwing stones at the Sun
Doesn't reduce its radiance
Others making fun of your
Shows their lacking in confidence
Do not waste thoughts
On people without a heart
Do not worry Be happy
You are the definition of beauty
Unable to handle it
They seek humor in your agony
Even in agony none is a patch
To lessen your appeal
Go to class
And give it Class
May 2022 · 277
D
KV Srikanth May 2022
D
Dastardly deadly
disease disorder
delineating duality
Detecting disturbance
Daydreaming dirt
Drifting dreamer
Disappointed disorientation
Dwelling delegated
Dissolving determination
Destiny's design
Death Desired
Direction Dead End
May 2022 · 67
ONE YEAR
KV Srikanth May 2022
A year gone by
Nothing ever the same
Not a day goes by
When your memory not recalled by
Legends leave a vacuum
Never can be filled
Routine helps  keep sanity
Your presence gave vanity
Pursuing ones goals
You are the playbook
Realising them wish
You lived longer to tell
Table tennis and life not the same
Your absence felt every second
Your presence in my feelings
And guiding my thoughts
Makes living a lot easy
Having seen you play for 7 years
Practice or match
First row seats to witness
God greatest  gift
Thank you for everything
Greatest player to play the game
If Kamlesh Mehta calls you King
What more praise is there to sing
Your presence i feel
Anywhere i be
I pay my respects to you
Everyday on the table
Before playing the first ball
Thank you for everything
Called me hour brother many times
Today my life is great
Not written in my fate
Your wishes have brought me here
You would have been most happy to hear
My new job which i hold dear
Good souls helping me out
Giving opportunities which makes me full
Will do justice every ball played
Isn't that what you thought me for a decade
Pray for your happiness
Wherever you are
May you find peace
Like you found fame
May 2022 · 67
LAST
KV Srikanth May 2022
Last day of life
Lived in this universe
Hopefully by then
I'd have regrets none
Grateful for the experiences
Made me understand the nuances
That's what living is about
Took me long enough to figure it out
I will be nervous for sure
Knowing that death is near
Examples of bravery
That is read dearly
I'd replay it my head
Trying to wean of my cowardice
The philosophy id internalised
I would try to bring it alive
Great thinkers views of death
Hopefully would give my mind some peace and quiet
Not knowing what awaits
The other side of life
Would probably convince myself
Better there than the travails of life
Another day to pass
Will certainly not be my outlook
I'd rather not know that end is near
Only increases the bottled up fear
Accommodative to my loved ones
I'd be both gone and missing them
The day would pass by quickly
I'll make it longer with my memory
Life is a dream
I'm not the body or the  mind
It treats everyone the same
It's the end to a new beginning
All these ideologies
I have read in detail
Can I practice this
And see if it entails what it promises to entail
The only thing
Id be excited about
The answer I've been seeking
I'm now near its whereabouts
Matter of time
Before i know the answers
To the myth of reality
Which is going to present itself in all its glory
The last thing i would want
Comes as a shock
Time to leave as told
I would be praying for a miracle to unfold
May 2022 · 63
VASCILATING
KV Srikanth May 2022
Unable to forget
Never left my thoughts
In the first place
Concentrated thought focussing on you
Or even while meandering
Wanders around you
Easiest solution is to tell you
I tell myself everytime
The next time is the last time
I going to return with my feelings
Heart heavy and hurting
Standing before you
My heart racing
Memory the last thing
That is working
Want to make
An impression on you
Every second wasted
Your presence erases my thought process
When will I get my act together
Or die a loner
Not a crime to like a woman
Am i feeling guilty
Do i feel unworthy
Or am i afraid of rejection
Veil of shyness
To protect myself
From knowing your true emotion
Guessing all the time
Not knowing what you are thinking
Hoping for a miracle
If it were to happen
It would have already happened
It hasnt flown smoothly
Which if something you have to get
Always does
The more the lack of clarity
The longer it takes to reach a finality
Wouldn't even want to let myself wander in those woods
Prayer is for cowards
In my case only ratifies it
God not your messenger
Glowing in all directions
Your heart reflecting every second
Let me leave it to destiny
If it is to be so be it
If it is not to be
Add one more Atheist
Easiest to blame
God for the same
For he decides fate
Of he is fate
May 2022 · 69
INTERLUDE
KV Srikanth May 2022
No past or future
How does one not have a past
If he treats everything as present
It ceases every moment
As present turns its hide from real
Which it is
To the unreal
Which it becomes
Under a another name
Such a person has conquered time
Or realised that time is only a concept of time
Gone by no longer existing
Yet to come not existing
Has an option to play
Need not come
Such a person is aware
And it does not matter
Something that does not exist
Cannot matter
Passed by or Awaited
Non existing reality
The acts done have a history
Not to be confused with the Actors repository
Can't write a review for his earlier roles
When he's performing one now
Role exists player doesn't
Roles written player undecided
Role now performing
Now no more
As quick as that
Aware of this
One leaves no trace
Of his time spent
Here on this universe
We call birth and death
Living playing a brief Interlude
To connect the two
May 2022 · 67
CONTRADICTION
KV Srikanth May 2022
Yesterday night
Two friends
Alone together
Got into their car
Pedaled it afar
To the graveyard
For a lively party
Their dead friends birthday
They reached an hour late
Bang on time
Stayed sober by drinking
Woke up late as eyes didn't close a wink
The climb down was tough
As they were starving on a full stomac
The deafening silence enroute
Even though it was a short distance
Made a rightful mistake
Of turning the wrong side

Going straight in reverse
The found their way
Was the rightful opposite way
Which they found immediately in a day

Bumped into a truck
On an empty highway
Reached their homes
Which was broken to
By thieves who took
Away their valuables
Spent the next 6 hours
Searching for their keys
They needed to enter
May 2022 · 191
GATES
KV Srikanth May 2022
Burden and sorrow
Are the guards to your gate
Knocking on it
Going to enter anyway
Denying permission is
Living in lala land
Let it come
Occupy some
Space in the mind
Don't waste your time
Uninvited guests they are
Dwelling on them
Gives the more strength
Delays their departure
Use the strength and time
Used to dwell upon
On the issue
That granted them
Visa to enter
Your own end
Bear it with strength
Pray to god
To give you the heart
Think of the millions
Behind you in the line
Get happiness out of that
Find peace till the end of time
May 2022 · 72
THANKFUL
KV Srikanth May 2022
Woke up today
Thank God for that
Had a good night's sleep
Indebted for allowing that
Had my cup of coffee
More than contended

A roof over my head
How many can claim that
Eternally grateful for the kindness
Food on the table
Whenever the stomach requested
Provided in full
Obliged to you
Whatever has happened
Is the best outcome you have granted
Relationships in symphony
Synchrony you help validate
Deeply appreciative for ceding
Contended fulfilled clear
That's my life today
Humbled by the generosity
Nothing to ask
Everything given without any pre condition
There for me to experience
Live life the only expectation
The mind in between
Sows seeds of questions
Help me understand
That a gift is to be celebrated
And shared
Not taken with an attitude of i don't care
Noticed that the universe
Had performed its functions well
As the world outside
Was bustling with activity
Overwhelmed in the least
A big thank you
For giving me the life
With the best help to tend



A life to lead only awareness to
To be
Thank you Thank you Thank you
May 2022 · 63
TRAVAILS
KV Srikanth May 2022
Exertion to create
A creation
Either by talent or repetition
Skill and imagination
Overlaying in tandem
For profession or recreation
Has a destiny written
Before or after
I'm in no position
To answer the question
If the art carries the artist s fortune
Or doom as determined
The art is not at fault
Just as we are born
Knowing only life
It searches to  display
Pride not in itself
But its master
Inspite of the travails
Using his
Seeds of imagination
Birthed on canvas
Record or film
Even the creator
By virtue of his power
Could write its kismet
But needed its artisan
To use his wizardry
Who's life  too he can sequence
But lacked his creative essence
Creating a competition
To his occupation
Willing to sacrifice it
He lacks the nuance
Of the artistic brilliance
World and his creation
Need in abundance
Foregoing his monopoly
His imagination after all lacked beauty
A novice who needed
The virtuoso s genius
To make this world a better place
May 2022 · 95
COUNT
KV Srikanth May 2022
High up there
Out of sight
Out of reach
How did they get there
Want to analyse threadbare
No magic trick
Or Sleight of hand
Still don't get the big picture
Ask the question where
Did they start to dare
To go out there
Wearing their dreams on their sleeve
Not afraid to loose
Starting all over again
Time and again
Enjoying the day
Even if it didn't go their way
Ready for another day
Not to repeat the same mistake
Respected the game
Thought to them
By the coach
Who's every word
Was taken as wisdom
Never in doubt
Of the coach' s clout
To make them win
If not today
One day later
Respect for opponent
His skill and effort
Every drop of his sweat
A piece of advice
His coach no less
Does the same
Finds your weakness
How you could be beaten
What other lesson
Can be taught
Than to have  a list
To have you at a loss
Teaching you to win
Teaching you to loose
Combine both to groove
A step up the ladder
Right on time
Not too soon
Not too late
Now in sight
How the winner
Wrote his fate
Time to erase
To keep a clean slate
Unlearn the learnt
Cup empty to be filled
Process paves the way
Endure the pain
Don't count the hours
You spend to play
Start counting after
Your breath you are no more sure
Is two way
May 2022 · 117
GOD SICKNESS
KV Srikanth May 2022
We are told
Of a god
Never seen him at all
Those who passed it on
Were put through the same draw
We pray and worship
Part of our daily life
A fallback option
Always taken in trouble
Or in gratitude
We never miss him
Plays out like that
Put our lives in his hands
That's how important he is
Has never turned up
Faith answers the logic that's absent
Never seen never will
Never present in our present
Home sick not unique
God sick  a word needed
To be added
Vocabulary must henceforth
Put forth the fact
That he's not visited you yet
May 2022 · 87
SINE DIE
KV Srikanth May 2022
If God was man made
Man was God made
This would end the debate
Or Creation and Created
Both get to perform
Both the roles
We call it a tie
None to vie
For the prize
Only problem lies
Who would be the jury
Has to be a mixture
Of man and gods glory
Adjourned sine die
To continue this case
Without which our
World would no more
Be an interesting place
May 2022 · 63
CHARITY
KV Srikanth May 2022
Recieved in times
Needed the most
Weighing scale tilted
Balance against your favour
Help and Sympathy
When didn't deserve any
Came your way
By people who
Cared for you
Digging holes and slipping in the wet sand
Time and again
Warned before hand
Took life for granted
Granted it was
Instead of being
Six feet under
They dug deeper
To life you from below
Their life was in flow
You the debris
Halting and clogged it slow
Two way street
Time to treat
And return the favor
Not to them
But to Any other
Be charitable in forgiving
Be magnanimous in giving
Ready to sink
Stop the other from drowning
Repeated offence more grace the essence
Were at the recipient at the podium
Time to stand down
And next victim passes by
Do to them
What was done to you
The greatest gift was given
When no one recalled any event
Impressed upon you
It was forgotten
Or you'd die of embarrassment
Charity in giving
Memory in lacking
World presented to you
When you wanted to start life again
Easiest thing is to copy
Simply follow the duty
Forget it after not before
Give it before not after
May 2022 · 71
TEAR
KV Srikanth May 2022
It doesn't matter
What you wear
The money you earn
Never extended a life
Professional pride
Is your ego s ride
All depends on the tide
Takes you with it
Or takes you with it
What matters most
Is your thoughts rise high
The only place where
Mediocrity is a crime
Feel for the rest
Heart rate is manifest
By the compassion inate
Born into this world
The only way to evaluate
If human life were to bear a price
The highest bid
Will go to the man
Who at the plight of the rest
Alone in his company
None for an audience
Says a prayer and
Sheds a tear
May 2022 · 67
EARTH MOTHERS PART 2
KV Srikanth May 2022
As a young girl
Made to do household work
Errands to run
Household to please
Told it was their duty
To make others lazy
Sent to school
For a few years
To read and write
Not for their use
But to be more useful
Married of in their teens
To a man never seen
Enter a family
Numbering many
Not even introduced properly
Start where they left off
Only the address differs
Work without pay
Continues till after hours
Servitude to the husband
His family in tow
One more joins the row
Told to assist in the chores
One dimension alone
Takes its toll
Period of time
Mother nature's indifference
Had children to raise
Not only theirs
But many in a joint family
New generation to serve
Third in a row
No reprieve offered
No task let go
Added on many more
Older members to serve
Husbands and family
To please
Children to nurture
Guests to be honoured
All treated in the same vein
Effort increased as did age
Born without time
But served it fine
Did not need a clock
As they had no agenda
Only time to look at the time
Was to ensure others were on time
Used as a ladder
All their life
All climbed and got off right
Everything for granted
Only life to focus
Nothing else mattered
How was everything in place and ready to take
Never asked the question once
Their fingerprints touched many lives
All for the better none worse
Older age nothing to celebrate
More to face
Doing it from birth
Burden never left a trace
When did they sleep
When did they rise
Are they well
Physical and Mental
Did they need help
One great lacking
Is their inability in asking
Second nature in giving
Did i learn nothing,?
Real living is living for others
Bruce Lee said
These women by example lead
Have seen two
How did they manage to do
What they do
One sided transaction
Only taken none given
None asked is their greatness
Did it even occur to me
To ask them the question
Did you have your meal
Food for hunger they provided
Food for thought
Their lives to be celebrated
May 2022 · 70
FULL
KV Srikanth May 2022
A fulfilled life
Is a path well travelled
The ditches fell into
As a part of the process
Stinking of the Gutter
But a lot wiser
Not feel humiliated
But a sense of pride
Fell into it inadvertently
Least a lesson and
Never fell again
For the same reason
Mountains to climb
A few successfully
A few withdrew
Took a detour
Not felt like a failure
Just a fish out of water
Chose the next best thing to do
Felt good about the travel
Ticketless it ain't
Self respect didn't allow that
Gained some failed some
Cocktail of experience
Not to get a sense of high
But to remain stable in the head
Full in the heart
What more can one ask for
Memories doesn't make you sour
Future lush green or barren
Not even in thought
Living in the present
Crossing the road
From past to future
Taking a turn no more to return
Looking at the mirror
To get its permission
When the rear view mirror
Doesn't reflect the road
But the integrity of your soul
Needs don't die with death
One final request beats inside
You need 4 to
Carry you from the floor
Visiting card to show
When whatever awaits
At the next door
Got your Four
More were ready to carry
To the gates of
Your next journey
A life well lead
Fulfilled with respect
A few regrets
Not human otherwise
If regrets none
Buy a one way ticket
As no more trips
Back here
Signed off forever
With no signature required
May 2022 · 164
REGRET
KV Srikanth May 2022
Causing hurt by act or Words
Others forget with time or by indifference
Scar caused within
Cannot be independent of the inside
Neither does time exist outside
Exit doors shut
Front row seats to watch
Yourself wallow in regret
Retribution none greater
Life sentence in a loop
Refusing to let go
Mind begs for parole
Conscience denies it
At one go
Thrown to the lions
A matter of seconds
Living with regret
Memory keeps vigil
Playing the warden
Prisoner in your own mind
Trust me the better of with the lions
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