Learning to speak
Part of growing
Gaining the knowledge
As comes with age
Takes a few years
A well built vocabulary
A different language too
Part of the process to grow
Intelligence required to flow
And to be  in the know

Divinity required to
Get the experience
Time taken unknown
To get to know
When  to use reserve
In the place of words
No words can create
An impact as powerful
As silence can dictate

Calmness a creation
When Silence is in motion
No harm can ever be done
Where laconism is the language spoken

What we hear
Told as fact
Is with tact
An opinion given
To create an impact
As sought by the one
Who recounts the fact
We hear it
The way we want it
Distorted version remains
Passed on for further distortion
An adherence to reality
Confirming with honesty
Truth elucidated  in accordance
With the narrative intended
To be effective
Finally a personal perspective
Fact and Truth
Belief and Outlook
Fact and Truth
Life's fictional pursuit
No one knows
Which is real
Versions varying from
Person to person
Real version Non existent
Pursuit of them
To come to any conclusions
End up judging the wrong person

Bitterness never helped growth
Bitter to the other is better
Than to the self
It builds a pedastal
For the ego to reside
Putting reasoning aside
Seeing no change
For the embittered rage
Wears the cloak
Of Self pity to boast
I am the victim
I deserve more
Death sounding death knell
Of any kind of progress
Stagnation a boon
Spiralling down at a speed
Light finishes second in the heats
Hell on earth
Dish served cold
The battered ego
With no place to go

Different thought process
On an issue of importance
Or for convenience
Forming an opinion
Fact and reason
Not necessarily present
A matter of taste
Each going either way
Appealing and attractive
Worshipping the narrative
A matter of the heart
Thought process takes no part
Logic or Taste
Thought or Emotion
Mind or Heart
Or sometimes both at work
Expressing oneself once
Is more than enough
A forceful reenforcement
Changes the equation
Dissent dispute altercation
Relationship ends in a dead end
Best available solution
Not to be in contention
Convincing the person
Not an occupation
Respect the opinion
Stop the conversation
Peace of mind
Bigger than a seeming victory
On any bone of contention

Heart in wilderness
Yearning for company
Thoughts stuck in
Traffic
Each blocking the other
No escape route
In search of a detour
Each traveling the distance
Extrapolating to fictional conclusions
Thoughts never tire
Continues its rollercoaster
Memory the striker
Hitting each other
Unlike the board game
The coins remain the same
In this.never ending game
Only one player to name
Awake and Its on
Sleep the dream switches on
Half asleep it wanders on
Half awake it meanders on
A place to hide
From my thoughts
Only thoughts decide
Playing cops and robbers
Here both wear the same number

Space and Time
Conceived by man
How to fill it
He hadn't planned
Artists created art
Immortal in its form
Composers created music
With nothing even to imagine
Artists and Musicians
Perform the role of God
By creating a form
From a non existent form
The artists strokes the space
The art form is performed
The conductor waves his hand
Tunes fill the room
Imagining a theme
Giving it a structure
On the stage to exhibit
A talent none can inherit
Nothing to refer
Has to be new to offer
Limited strings on instruments
Unlimited to instruct new variations
Coming together to create wizardry
Necromancy also a possibility
Such is the mastery
Over the craft of the art
By the artist
Who can originate
And the Maestro
Who can dictate
Themes and Notes
To fill up our space and clocks
The overflow of joy
Matter of pride for all
An action of pure divinity
Got to be blessed to be
The one who designs
Transcends the time we created
Will last long after
Even time ceases to exist

Scars of the past
Healed or hidden
Have they become a habit
No more seeming odd
Fear of the future
Past turning out unexpected
Expect the unexpected
Cliche most quoted
Lived long enough to know
Life not linear
Doesn't want it predicted
A rule book to live by
Pages empty or erased
Confused the writer
Replies questions with more questions
Thus is born the seeker
Not in search of the answer
Tracing the question paper
Begins to understand life better

Question and Answer
Similar in nature
Mirage on the inside
Searching for its reflection outside
Illusion equally deceptive
Answers the Mirage
Fooling you into thinking
That you have the right perspective


Quest to find water
Standing in the middle of the Ocean
Not a matter of perception
Ocean and the standing
Both are unreal
Quest to find the quest
The ocean and the I
Will cease to exist

All the stars in the galaxy
Showing us the creators legacy
Fade when her eyes
Gaze at them
The innocence of her smile
Travel a billion miles
The stars wonder
How they got to shine brighter
The glow from her skin
Resplendent from within
The sky a mirror
Sharing her radiance
With the constellation
They take the glory
Of nature's beauty
Her effulgence created it
Presence makes them jealous
But need it for their performance in the night
End up pretending
What else can one do when
They can't do without
On reflected glory they
Being the very  reference
For the formation
Hyades taken a leaf
Borrowing from the  beauty
The Pulsars are wondering
Celestials share their address
How did she end up
In a earthly terrace
End their night s few minutes before
To warn the Sun
What its up against
If the moon can live on borrowed light
Why can't I
It hid behind the clouds
Hoping to see her
Disappointed it could never
Spot her
Welcomed the stars again
Asking them about her
Fooled yourself that
You hid behind the clouds
Her presence made your rays
Impotent at her gaze
Her irradiation illuminated and
enlightened the Sun
Casting shadows on others
Looking back to see
Even if  has a shadow
Given to it by an ethereal angelic frau
Who bests it in Glow

Intensity of affection
As deep as the Ocean
In the line of fire
Look back and there is
A brother or a sister
Standing in line prior

All descendants of
A common ancestor
Sons and daughters
Of brothers and sisters

Childhood spent together
Memorable moments a treasure
Crisis and agony endured
Trouble for one face it as one

Difference of opinion
Occurance most common
Cracks in relationships
Common and relatable

Natural to differ
That's nature's order
Something is out of order
If everything is in order

Strain of the dispute
Taking its toll
Communication the first victim
Distance the result

Does not give pleasure
Only makes one wonder
If it is worth the pressure
Time to take measures

Tragedy or calamity
Brings all under
One roof to ponder
How to tackle the intruder

Family values though by the elders of the house
Foundation laid strong
Value systems where they should belong

Greatest learning in the house
Lessons learnt from each other
Mother father no different to each other
Sense of oneness no one can teach better


Coming together inspite
At odds with each other
Pushed to the corner
Face us together

Times have changed
Families have grown
Independent on their own
Comfortable in their zone

All had mentors
Uncle's and brothers
Who shared their knowledge
Made life easier to tackle

A lifeline and an anchor
Provided when needed
All get together
Gods answer to the prayers

Our family is special
Oneness its Core
Whatever might have transpired
Value systems remain unchanged

In times of difficulty
There is no other place I'll be
In times of making merry
No other place I'd record in my memory
Just to be together
No other place I'll let the clock remind me
Many regrets i have but not the place I grew to be what i was to be
All the money all the fame all the power
I'd still want to learn life
From those who taught me
What it is to be
A Good Human Being

Victims of War
Wherever they are
Displaced from homes
Do we even know
What it means
Handful of needs
Sons and daughters in tow
Elderly parents to accompany
Cozy surrounding of their home
To the streets of the country
Familiar with
A few thousand steps
A country not familiar with
All the while
Life ready to flee
Leaving the bodies behind
An gunfire or an explosion
The reason to abandon
A statistic for the Anchor
Hope he has enough covered
To run his program in order
The more the merrier
As the viewer interested in hearing about danger
If its the weather
His finger finds another number
On the remote control
Only thing over which he
Has any control
Resident to Refugee
Pathetic for the world to see
Politics Economics  and weapons
Supposedly for the people's betterment
Now nomads holding their lifeline
No oil pipeline makes no difference to their lifestyle
Oppression the tool
Oppressed the fool
Searching for food
Women and children starving
The winner continues counting
More you ****
More you injure
More you destroy
More you mutilate
The more families you seperate
The more you make them afraid
And finally totally anhilate
Proclaimed the winner
More medals and badges
Added to those who participate
How can ones misery
Be another ones Glory
The more you help fight difficulty
The more you are in god's country
The first thing the world needs
Is not a world without borders
But a world without defence forces
They don't seem to defend anything
But under that pretext go for mass killing
Testing nee missiles
Calling them as successful
Is there a greatest sadist
Whose sucess rate is marked
By the amount of blood splattered
Army Navy Airforce
Can hitherto come to a close
Let the people live in peace
Which even otherwise is hard to achieve
Every extra breath a bonus
Considered to be lucky
What have we come to
A real pity
Let everyone benefit
From natural resources
Or inventions and discoveries
Border denotes a different sect
Race Creed Caste Colour
Born in that order
For no fault of theirs
On the run from the squads
Knocking on other countries doors
To get a pass
Wait with bated breath
Already in shortage
For them to take a call
This is the depths
Humanity has slipped
Animosity has replaced affinity
Benevolence with Callouness
Empathy with Cruelty
Conscience with Economics
Humanity dropped humaneness
Nothing is left to hope
Fear has drowned faith
Hope and faith thrown away
Where will I get food the next day
Have a parade
Declare a national holiday
For the future generations to say
That the had been brave
To seek out is bravery
To **** is cowardice
In a world that's got it backwards
Is where humans sans humanity live

12 years since
Made your last appearance
Rumours of Alzheimer's
Hope Its not true
A film a year
For over 50 years
For fans to cheer
Every decade an Oscar
Given by your peers
Box office success
A habitual process
Cannes Venice Berlin and Tokyo
Only a part of your portfolio
Highest paid movie star
Percentages of gross and merchandise sold you got
100 million dollars for playing
The Joker in Batman
No one yet to get closer
Voted greatest Actor
Biggest movie Star
Fans ready to watch
You next and every fare
Loved by all
A. Style icon
Method in the madness
Madness in the method
Best describes who you are
Kid from Jersey
Conquered every peak
Your fans across still seek
A film with your name
Above the title
In the heart of the fans
Millions awaiting just wave the magic hand
One final performance
To resonate for the next decade
Happy Birthday to the legend
Whom stardom and awards at beck and call
Seen it all
Roger Corman knew it all
Took his casting call
Live long live healthy
Deserve this and more
For painting stories of reality and fantasy
With ease

Edge of the seat
Life led with
*** drugs and rock n roll
See it all
Decided to follow
College Work Marriage
Replaced with pedal on the metal
Brake only when you see God
Survive to tell the tale
Or the brake didn't give the break
Took you away
Your story tells the tale
Better than you would narate
Both ways you pay
But a good trade
As others learn that the way
Is a one way

Winner or looser
Final result matters
Attained the goal set
All the right steps met
Inability to reach
Target out of reach
Winner or looser
Be the survivor
Both are hurdles
Complacency and Arrogance
Loaded in to the thought
Esteem and Confidence
Unloaded from the heart
All stumbling blocks
Double edged sword
Both sides hurt
Path to defined
Not to meander
Given more power
Winner or looser tag
Become the beholder
Climbing the mountain
Rolling down boulders
Avoiding both the dangers
Without causing a murmur
Become a survivor
Once on top
What is next
Another peak to climb
Or start all over again
Not yet reached
Failed the climb uphill
Does not mean Its downhill
Take it as it comes
The best that one can be
You are not me
I am not you
Everyone is unique
If want to be branded
Be the survivor
Whose route is unclear
Confused further by
Those who reached
Those still at the nadir
Glad to be in the middle
Trying to solve the riddle
Various paths available
Thought process to juggle
Up down or halfway
Does not matter
Lessons learnt from the travel
Forever grateful and thankful

Events in a sequence
Not very pleasant
Taking the decision
A time of inconvenience
Coming to the conclusion
Not a good time
Know very little
Arranging and Analysing
Assuming it is trouble
Rationalising how to handle
Unknown on the fray
Beyond our ability
To understand the game
What is bad we thought
Need not be bad
Can turn out either way
Will only know as day progresses into another day
Finding logical reason
In what has happened
Leads to more frustration
There is a gap
A logical nightmare
Lying there somewhere
If not things will be
As it were
To put you in this loop
Nature was ready with its tools
Taking it as a given
From that moment
Is the easiest solution
To handle the so called problem

Declared dead
Reference to life
Lived in this planet
No more to the rest
Burnt or Cremated
Six feet under or
Smokes of a fire
Burning the dead
For the first time
Since birth
Refered to as The Body
Name given Education learnt Position held Money saved
Etiquette used as prefix
In Relation to the family
All forgotten suddenly
Holds no value or sanctity
Body replaced by day
Recalled for remembrance
Reduced to that date
Out of sight
Out of mind
Human experience so far
Out of body
Burnt to ashes
Buried under concrete
Potrait decorates the walls
Lest we humans forget

Taken away by fate
That was written to end this day
Nature had its way
Sequence of events to have its prey

Boy with great talent
Achievements to meet the high standards
Of impeccable manners
Level headed and calm demeanor

Winning his second nature
Made it a habit to persevere
Every category grew in stature
Won matches along with hearts every year

Loved by all
Players Parents and Coaches
His trophies carry his memories
Forced to rely on memory
Because of this tragedy

No way to convey
Our Hearts go out
His family and friends
A boy who transcended clubs

May be was sent
With a purpose to tend
No other answers i have
To a tragedy of this size

Cannot share the grief
To give his parents relief
Understand it very deep
The sorrow that has seeped

Does God love
Him more than us
He wanted him beside
Couldn't find a better child

Life without him
All have to endure
What is to cure
There's no answer

The game is
No more the same
Long live his fame
Carry along his name

Indication from God
An event transpires
Seen as a trailer
Before the movie releases
Linking the events
Foretelling the fortunes
Gets done akin to a doctrine
Screening the film yet to be filmed
God not a weatherman
Warnings not his way to be
It is what it is
Will be what it will be
Interpreting the incidents
Using reason to come to conclusions
Based on an irrational comparison
Of an earlier occurance
Take each as it comes
Not more not less to confirm
Future may turn out
To be a sequel as predicted
Can't still be edited
The way you want it projected
If not a follow up
Only time is wasted
Extrapolation acting like a Vestibule
Connecting the coaches
For a brief period the mind Oscillating like the swing that holds the child travelsFORETE

friends meet up
At a hotel for a cup
One said i had a dream
That i was going fishing
Beautiful the ocean
And the bright blue sky
The other said i too had one
That i am going for dinner
With Gina Lollabrigida
The first guy got agitated and asked
Why did you not ask me to join
For which the friend
Without skipping a, beat said
Ofcourse i did
But you had gone fishing

A smile that lights the darkness
Price i would pay to see your lips part ways
Even the gods will not say
More magic than any miracle
That may happen
Shows the doors to heaven
Eyes brighten and the corners go their ways
Radiance pervades as your teeth show their grace
Your voice with its simpering
Even to the angels alluring
Breaking into a smile
Galaxy wonders
If  the constellations were real
Making hearts beat at a rate
Proportional to the smile on your face
One boon bestowed on the human race
Your smiling face
On the empty canvas of the universe
Your gesture radiates the answers
Authentic versions to travels
Across many generations
So beautiful your gesture
Monet wouldn't dare to paint your picture
If Helen had had your Snicker
Homer would have written another 24

Rubbernecking at the mirror
All jazzed up to step out
New clothes in place and sunglasses to add
Trying to look better in my own eyes

Images from my childhood
Emotions sticking and slipping
Like the wheels of a train
Move on their tracks

Squealing past in sequence
Reminded me of the indications
Horns Whistles Bells that were warning signs
Played loud clear i didn't listen

A surface for reflecting
Our images back to us
Owing fealty to me
Loyal in its depiction

Facet i did not know
Into my soul it could go
Cloning it to perfection
All my imperfections

Could see the image
Not the entity
Projecting my likeliness
Shadow cast over my darkness

Images of events
Edited with a beginning middle and end
There was no end
Retrospective introspection waiting for the Curtain

No more about appearances
And all false pretenses
Cleaning process conducted
No lens no filter made it simpler

Broken mirror brings
It seven years of bad luck
It means a broken soul
Reflecting your future told

Mirror intact no bad luck
Soul searching triggered
Coming of age begun
Never too late to begin


The mirror reflects within
Cleansing process to begin
God comes without an invitation
Why did he leave ask him the question

Subject and Object
Mirror as a witness to mirror
Jury convened judgement delivered
Playing all the roles await Gods answer

Even in Death
he denotes Good
Asked his father
To forgive the sinners
Lead a life of Teaching
Love more than anything
Threatened by his presence
Wrongly assumed that
Crucifixion will end their problem
Who is to tell them
That he cares for them too
As much as he did the 13
He did not  differentiate
Between follower and a traitor
He saw all in one
He was one for all
When one understands
That discrimination is in their hearts
Without invitation The son would reside in their hearts
No one's enemy
But seen as by many
Still threatened by his presence
Who haven't learnt their lesson
Dont worry about any for
You are lucky as
He is still full of forgiveness
You don't have what it takes
To erase him from memory
Hate him with all you got
Still that son of Mary
Who laid his life at Calvary
Will accept you for who you are
You are human
He is God
After all

Measure of goodness
How one treats the weak
Same as he would a king
Shows character and a heart of spring

Set standards for Actions
Desired and approve
Moral order defining character
Love yourself and you'll love others


Value to others
In thoughts and deeds
Wishing Ill for none
Growth for everyone

No later date set
Start now right away
Open your heart
Will be sought after by god

Shadow in Sunshine
Friend in Crisis
Light in the darkness
Filled with kindness

Not your line
Thinking different from thine
Does not make a difference
Open your hearts just the same

None that you don't like
Is the state to be reached
May all be well in life
Your dislike doesn't warrant them hell

The interest earned
By filling the stomachs
Of those whose is empty
Is kept safe by God under lock and key

Do not be the cause
For anybody's scar
Attitude will get auctioned off
No bidder buying at all

Words Thoughts Actions and Feelings
All in sync with each
Radiating this symmetry to reach
Everlasting Peace

Honesty should precede
Not an afterthought
In line with fact and reality
Accurate And Actual

Truth has no intent
Does not require a thought process
A simple direct narration of facts
Happened as it were

Lying is one step away from the truth
It is intentional expression requiring thought process
To create deception

Hides behind words and situations
Created and simulated
To appear like the truth
Probity wears a mask called trickery

Truth does not bear a price
Comes free unlimited
False has a tag
There is no buyback

The price one pays
Integrity lost for life
Every utterance doubted
No point living life

Dishonesty is valued
Beats the balance
Weighted against any
Gullible trade it for harmony

Recalling requires memory
With veracity not neccasary
Made up for convience
Puzzle to Solve in the present

Labryinth a loop
Entrance free and easy way out
Entrance now disappeared
Exit served as the entrance

Lies leads to secrets
Outside and within the self
More secrets to guard
Living  a life with self deception

Honesty flows endlessly
Fiction has a ******
Unpleasant ending defined
Downhill trip an anticlimax


Choice was offered
Greatest gift to be celebrated
Right or Wrong
Postman delivers where you belong

Truth travels with Courage
To face the troubles that truth brings
Lie had Cowardice for a friend
Encourages you to run till the end

Speak the truth
One dimensional life
Speak the untrue
Multidimensional to endure
Those who believe their lies
No words can describe

Lie a Nuclear weapon
Kills relationships for every sesson
Later trying to reason
Reason requires truth unfortunate equation

Death of lies
Only bereavement to be celebrated
Unmasking the self deception masks
A new date of birth to be marked

Fear and outcome
Causing the verbal zig zag
Fear grows manifold
Outcome's doors close

Laggard at going halfway
A step to be square with
Hostility obviating the course
In stew on a swing refusing to halt

Out with the old and
In with the new
Belligerence has done its miles
Time to discard it in favor of
Tying the laces towards reconciliation

Amour propre in a golden cage
Selfdom ruling its own kingdom
Clean as a hounds tooth
Besserwesser doesn't want to hear

Bugle sounds echoing
Hurt egos loaded their six
Faster at the draw doesn't matter
This goes on till you empty the calibre

Enemy without form
A wounded sense of pride
Cover up by operation on
Faceless warriors battle rages on

Only flaw in creation
Greatest nemesis created
Hubris in humans unexpected
Recall operations initiated

Nothing as certain as death and taxes
He made death certain
His way of recall
Made a warped one after all

Disposition and Perception
Born with and acquired along with
Making of one's true character
The core of the mind and heart empire

Task at hand
A decision to be taken⁶
There's the easy and the right
Take the right face it now
Take the easy sleepless forever

Whatever be the pressure
Even a Second thought Is a misfire
Naturally  go towards  tougher
It will rest easier

Conscience the device
That connects body mind and soul
Reflects to the outside
Questions and Answers by itself

Scruples and Principles
Sense of right and wrong
Conscience judges the behaviour
Represents you to yourself

Wrong deed done
Thought process corrupted
Character valued less
By ourselves no more by  others

Equity and Justice
Mercy and Kindness
Only way to remain
When the conscience asks questions

Small window of chance
To regain the pride
Can't undo the done
Repentance second best option


Against your core
Not feeling neccasary
Or coming for the ****
Face to face realise not so uphill

Running away has no destination
Restless mind permanently branding
Get back on the saddle and get back to town
The train arrives at High Noon

Art of living without living
No pre conceived notion
No baggage to carry
Be in the now
Grateful for that
Learn everyday from everyone
Whatever crux that has been learnt
Untie the boat Let the negatives flow away
Retain the learning
and Sway
Rocking the boat
Rocking it unnecessary
Get on board
The feet deaf to the sound of the footsteps
The silence inside manifests
As the discreet outside
Teaches you loud and clear
Only if you are willing to hear

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Living through events
Interaction with people
Leaving an impression
Facts and events internalised

One of its kind
Unlike anything before
Daily occorunce in the universe
Similar to none

Experience to handle Uniqueness
Bottle doesn't fit the cap
How to handle events
That are one of a kind

Deja Vu is an
Anomaly of a memory
Sense of recollection
No place in the bandwagon

On the lines of
The best one can make use of
Nearest thing to experience
Needs to explored with extrapolation

Use of machines
Driving a vehicle
Playing a Sport
Handling a portfolio

Same thing different day
Closest one can get
Repair Accident and loss
Reject this theory across

Deal it day by day
Treat it as the first day
One  day till another day
Only day on that day

Keeps you aware
Handle with care
No baggage carried
Situation handled by merit

Predicting the consequence
Consequence other end of action
Action debuted today
Consequence predicting far away

First time for everything
Only time for everything
First time is the only time
Second time makes time static

Handling any affair
Answer in the question
Awareness the key
Emptiness the procedure

Went to a tea shop
Mother admitted in a hospital
Femur bone fracture
Both next to each other

Studied in a college
Down this lane
Visited the same shop but
Dreams weren't the same

A boy in his teens
Wanting to achieve very high
No idea otherwise
If only i had been wise

Talking for hours
Friends on bikes
Leaning on them
Future the conversation

Twenty years thereafter
Many a zig zag turns later
Worked for a Television company
Surrounding similar Dreams changed

Outside the shop
Talking with friends on bikes
Shop the same
Bike and friends changed

Last stop i thought
The place to work for
Dreamt of a future
Yet to mature

Another twenty hence
Down the same lane
Entirely different reason
Outside the same shop same reason

Down the lane
College Work and Hospital lay
Down life's lane
Seems to be the same lane

Reflection has an advantage
There is no scope for disappointment
Looking back at the dreams
The place says where i have been

Dare i dream again
In my sleep not in my hands
Dreaming of an event happening
Voluntarily I wouldn't dream

Lane travelled the same
Distance covered miles and miles
Back to the lane took 20 years
Returning took another 20

Times have changed
This too shall pass
Heard it then
Say it now

Next trip here
I'm not sure
Sure I'm not sure
Greatest lesson learnt in all these years

Everything looks different
Unrecognisable the streets and buildings
Barely a soul in sight
All sold today for a price

You remain in my thoughts
Day and night
Want to say
Don't know the way
There is only one way
My fear stands in the way
Honest expression is not a sin
But feeling guilty within
Fear of rejection parading my heart
If you don't respond what will I retort
If you do and my pessimism comes true
Can't handle it at all
Not tell you
Leave it vague
There is a pleasure in it
Finding sadness in a likeable frame
Or regret not telling you rest of the way
I don't know the answer yet
Push comes to shove i don't have the guts
Part of me tells me
You don't have to reciprocate
My feelings are enough
Remaining within me
Churning and grinding to heart's content
Preparing to tell you
Gives me an agenda
To try vicariously the styles i could convey my thoughts
Best option yet
Will not keep me satisfied
A Dreamlands picturesque
Image projected
If you would confess what you have
Never happens in reality
Doesn't mean i can't dream
Makes the truth harder
When fantasy seizes
Plethora of emotions
Could be ended by a single line
Is there a time
Called the right time
Time will tell if you are a passion
Or just an infatuation

Staying positive hoping
The outcome will be welcome
Being negative without faith
The outcome if going to be filled with problems
State of mind either way
Will the final result change
Better frame of mind
For us to be in
Vibe spreading has value
One better than the other  is construed
Best is to stay neutral
Not for not against
Thus remaining non judgemental
The results them don't bother us
As both sides we are prepared for any result

Is there a god
Is he sitting in heaven
Is he all pervading force
Is he the nature itself
Is he inside us
Why cannot he be all
Why can't he sit in heaven
Guiding us with his spirit
Watching us delivering on merit
Be the supernatural force
That makes sure to enforce
The balance in this universe
Why can't he be inside of us
For us to realise that he's everywhere
Why limit a limitless god
Why define a god who can't be defined
Why give him a place
When all that's is is his
Why divide him
When he is one
Taking many forms
Being the One
He does not want to
Disturb your senses
Making you doubt him
Not realising that the doubt is also him and he is beyond any doubt
You are only doubting yourself
Not a matter of faith or hope
But the plain simple truth
For all to know
How many more indications will he show
When he need not
Bow to our wishes
Vice versa the world is perfect

Why is that
Every fear
That  i fear
A feeling of threat
Danger and harm
Has a funny way
Of coming true
Anticipation of unpleasant
Situations
Due to valid reason
Or a gut triggered emotion
Never escaped even one
Hunted me down every time

Lacking the guts
To face the fuss
A coward i was
Step aside because
Timid and weak
In my heart

Brought it forward
I was the same
As long as i remember
First few years didn't help either

Waves of anxiety
Top gear to my heart beating faster
Trembling of the legs
Stuttering of the mouth


Anger deep inside
Inability to express
Buckling in distress
Act of cowardice

Everything under the sun
Being hurt physically
Mind played with psychologically
Made fun of publicly
Bullied with savagery

Feared these forever
How they existed
I  am not sure
Spent my life looking for a cure

Wanted to be popular
Dug myself a grave 6 feet under
Trying to please everybody
Could see through me easily

A major school event
Had a problem with a fellow student
Boycotted the event
Realised nobody missed even my name

Bullied by the Vice Principal
Was also a table tennis coach
I too was a player
He treated me like a joker

Jokes at my expense
Was a daily occurence
School sport or neighborhood
Played by others like a fool

Feared a teacher
Hoping she not be my tutor
Murphy law at play
She made me regret everyday

Wanted to change
My so far image
Tried hard in college
Only to minimal effect


Studying in America
A childhood dream
Feared the visa interview
Greeted a lady officer as " Sir " out of pure fear

Rejected time and again
Angst never could contain
Wrong impression given
Get ready to face rejection

Feared of not having friends
Was ok on that end
Still struggling on that front
A good friend yet to gain

Fear of loneliness
Covering my heart with darkness
Almost reached there
Fear has taken aim at that

Wanted to avoid
Lead a life devoid
Of Bullying  and despair
One. Thing to be proud I'm rare

Afraid that I'd be.
Without a family
So it was to be
Alone and lonely

Wanted to be on par
With family and friends.
Whenever with them
Can feel the difference

Working in the markets
Got blamed for an error i did not falter
Took a year to.
Come out in the clear

The divorce proceedings
In an ugly hearing
Esteem all time low
Can't go further below

Why did i fear
What was the trigger
The mess between my ears
Took   decades to recover

This is a recall
Of events in the past
Following Bruce Lee and his philosophy
Given me the courage to face fear face to face

Educated and foolish
Illetterate and Wise
Need not be the case
Staring at life face to face
One must have insight
Ability to discriminate
Find his true place
Or else blame fate
Wisdom the ability
Understanding the reasons
Of past frailty
Merged within consciously
To be appropriately used when the past repeats itself repeatedly
Albeit not identical
Ability to handle
Far more rational
No left over
Start a clean slate
Ability to educate
Using the past as a template
Never fooled again
Nothing to do with the other
But next time he deals you better
Wisdom had the power
To send the message
That the learning has started
Lessons being learnt
Mistakes never repeated
Badly never treated

Reluctant to undergo
Anymore of the world
The people and their ways
Predicable in some cases
Unpredictable but not surprising
In many of the cases
Keeping up the positive
Outlook to life
Is becoming more of a struggle nowdays
A sense of weariness
Boredom and experience
Feelings that occur
As a reaction
To people's behaviour
Been in here long enough
Experience adds up
Beating my age hollow
Been there done that
Been there seen that
Been there undergone that
Been there felt and thought that
Life has become University
Doling out Degrees
Same subjects more deeper
Till one gets  a Doctrate
Tried to block
Entered into my head
Cynisicm the first emotion
That comes out as a reaction
Recent transactions i had
Led me to believe
All i had learnt was correct
First time around
The savage ways of the world
I was unaware
Internalised it the hard way
Butchered all along the way
This time around
Nothing has changed
Except my head not in line
Under the slaughter machine
My World Weariness
Offering complete protection
People trying the same tricks
Remains at trying
World weariness does not
Stop them
At giving a shot again
To short change or shoo away
They forgot that the tutorial class i attended was marked by them
Didn't realise my marks didn't reflect my learning
Future associations taught me swell
These sharks come across like kids
Who I'm able to handle with my wits
Which were lacking when they did this
Not surprised has taken them totally by surprise
One great thing
That happened to me
After this transformation
Innocence a distant past
Cynical current and present
I understand the films
Chinatown and Night Moves better
Jake Gittes and Harry Moseby played by Jack Nicholson and Gene Hackman
Were probably inspired by the lives
Of people like us
And we look up to them
With a sense of satisfaction
We are living them in life
They lived us in character
Which they also borrowed from their lives

Reluctant to undergo
Anymore of the world
The people and their ways
Predicable in some cases
Unpredictable but not surprising
In many of the cases
Keeping up the positive
Outlook to life
Is becoming more of a struggle nowdays
A sense of weariness
Boredom and experience
Feelings that occur
As a reaction
To people's behaviour
Been in here long enough
Experience adds up
Beating my age hollow
Been there done that
Been there seen that
Been there undergone that
Been there felt and thought that
Life has become University
Doling out Degrees
Same subjects more deeper
Till one gets  a Doctrate
Tried to block
Entered into my head
Cynisicm the first emotion
That comes out as a reaction
Recent transactions i had
Led me to believe
All i had learnt was correct
First time around
The savage ways of the world
I was unaware
Internalised it the hard way
Butchered all along the way
This time around
Nothing has changed
Except my head not in line
Under the slaughter machine
My World Weariness
Offering complete protection
People trying the same tricks
Remains at trying
World weariness does not
Stop them
At giving a shot again
To short change or shoo away
They forgot that the tutorial class i attended was marked by them
Didn't realise my marks didn't reflect my learning
Future associations taught me swell
These sharks come across like kids
Who I'm able to handle with my wits
Which were lacking when they did this
Not surprised has taken them totally by surprise
Of all the gin joints all across the world she had to walk into mine
Those who know will understand the quote
Meaning they have sailed in the same boat
We've got him who's seen it all
We've seen it all
We always will have Paris

Time already spent
On the universe
Antecedent only purpose
Can be traced for value
Clubbed together called
Experience
Comes in handy if used with sense
Let it remain
As a cluster
Fills the void called ignorance
Filter and balance it
It merges the subconscious with
The field from which we pick our daily  drill
Becomes a poison
If permanently retained
Biggest casuality the Present
Will go unnoticed can't be regained
Mixes with thoughts and feelings
Colored vision at everything
Anger and frustration integrated
Like the remains of a fortress
That used to be a fortress
Even nostalgia which brings with it
Only the pleasant of the past
Wanting us to relive it
Unable to forget it
Is a path that the mind travels fast
A small trigger enough
Like the bullet out of a barrel
Towards its target
Nostalgia too is an obstacle
For being in the present
Let it remain in the sub conscious
Recline  on that as an intermission
Past is Poison
If the filter is broken
Lessons to learnt
Is why that happened
Lessons missed because the teacher was not equipped
Does not make the subject invalid
Throw the book Learn the lesson Store the crux
Forget the teacher Move on to the next
Repeat the process

Facing s situation
Not under our control
Next step of action
To be well thought out before taken

We call it problem
Unwelcome and harmful
To be dealt with
Has to be overcome

The problem with the problem
Is it takes over the mind
Gets thought process to focus all the attention on it
Woefully takes the form of Worry

The formless form
Uses its description to its advantage
Can't point at it
Takes more forms and diverts

Causes more damage
Than already is
Worry bring focused on
The problem is as it is

Not accepting a situation
Takes the form of a problem
Inability to come to terms
Causes the stress that comes

Acceptance pushes out worry
Mind now focussed fully
Dealing with the issue at hand
No distraction standing behind

Time and energy
Taken to worry
Diverted to address and
Solve the issue

You face the problem
You worry about it
Your thinking overcomes it
You get freed of it

The problem is not outside
The problem is you
If it is solved inside
There's none outside

Sailing away to seas away
Thoughts swaying on whether to stay
Home with security and care
Loved ones with woes to share

In search of a future
Bright as the morning sun
Also mixed in pleasure and fun
Far off horizons waiting to enlighten

Travel and education
Two knots of the cradle
Lullabies of wisdom
Imparted  with momentum

Landing on the shores
Waves hitting the deck
Still missing the folks
Optimism the guard making sure you don't fall

In search of something
You already had from  the beginning
Why take the journey
Search needed in order to realise that the search is not needed

Looking back waves recede
As if to tell you to proceed
Fail and again and take the rap
Never learnt if still with mom and dad

Enter the process
Has no exit to offer
Process the answer
Learning even when falter

Experiences stored in memory
Will tell your life's story
Decides the human being you are
Life is always played on par

Your night is their day
That's the way nature made
Writing your life's first draft
Never say goodbye cause you ain't apart

Appeal and Magical
Womans Lure
Curriculum at School
Values at home
Seldom include

Happens to all
Age no bar
Objectified at first
Finds its place
On a to do list

Neighbor Is a start
Teacher is not far
Set high the bar
Silver Screen
Provides it all

Neighbor Teacher Actor
All from afar
Emotions mixed
Guilt adds a twist

Category in a Sport
Age defined emotion
Heart demands action
With its brain a friction

Mystery and Mystique
Adds to the Allure
To know if true
One has to mature

Lucky if beautiful
Unlucky if not
Qualified by looks
Quantified by wealth
Strategy in play as well

Eyes of the beholder
Never more truer
Beauty skin deep
Philosophy to seek

Art to master
Good with women
Feelings not at play
Skill  paves way

Question the source
All in natural course
Clarity absent
Emotion present

Fantasy  or Reality
****** or nobility
Purity a necessity
Turmoil insanity

Quotes and Idioms
Dime a Dozen
Marriages made in heaven
Peace in fusion
Entire human race
Gods grace

Emotion Divine
Feelings Sublime
Process Spiritual
Lucky the individual

Logic and reasoning
Passion and desire
Abscence of Harmony
Melancholy in Sanctity

Foundation laid
At tender age
Seeking Intimacy
Fulfilled or frustrated
Cheerful or Crestfallen
The Heart wants
What it Wants

Let me tell you a secret
Most contradictory statement ever
Made by the immature
Only the mature can keep its honor

Information idea or incident
From opening the soul finds its origin
Does not have a destination
Guarding it requires determination

Foundation  is trust
Respecting it a must
Basic requirement being loyal
Passed on an act of betrayal

Not a stock to be traded
Valuing it an act of sin
Championship not to be won
Like a trophy paraded should be berated
Not an autograph to be exchanged
One person to another
Shows complete lack of character

Information is power
Adds value to holder
Not a struggle for one upmanship
Total lack of sportsmanship
Not a gift in times of rift
Gifting  even not an option

Not a movie to be previewed
Word of mouth not  reviewed
Not news to be sold
Should be treated on par with treason

Fear of being judged disclosed
Skeletons in the closet exposed
Reason for a decision stated
Action of the future confessed

Taking in a hushed tone
Calling one to come alone
Waiting for one to leave
Stopping  midway as one arrives
A secret Is at play
Your business or not
Stay away

Eager to know somehow
for gossiping
Digging deep  treasure seeking
Eavesdropping for information
Emotional blackmail
If all other fail

What you dont know
Cannot hurt
Revealing and Recieving
Not in its worth
Another mans misery
Not in your trajectory
Any such transaction
Only path  rejection

Heart is light
Each to his plight
Bow to the person
Who will rather die
Than share this information

Like Duty
No parity
Surety is integrity
Safety guarantee

Stays within
Dies with
No myth
Basic truth

You stole my heart
Till death do us part
We had vowed at the altar
Never say goodbye cause we ain't apart
How could have you stolen my heart

Destiny set us apart
Made you to depart
God did his part
Hit me like a close range dart

Waiting for me
Up in the sky
No regret that I'm unable to fly
When will I learn how to die

Time our enemy
As I keep watching the clock
Every tick its tact

Friends from childhood
Ignored and abandoned
Grew up concomitantly
Yet so differently

Days of hunger
Hanging around at a film theatre
Pocket picking only option
Do the deed with hope of escaping

Passing the purse
To his friend an accomplice
Tries to flee the scene
Before doing an act so obscene

Cought by the public
Mind and body static
The friend does not panic
Hides the wallet under the car wheels

Cought red handed
Turns the tables single handed
Lays the blame on his friend
And claims total innocence

The accomplice under the radar
Beaten up and questioned by the public at large
Questioned if he took it
Denies it vehemently

Forced to return the stolen wallet
Doesn't think even for a minute
Claims innocence of its whereabouts
Doesn't help in easing the people's doubts

Finally grilled if his friend did the act
Replies I have no idea about  the fact
Death at you doorstep never rat
Learnt from this young boy whose character is intact

Did you take it
No
Did your friend take it
I don't know
Where is the wallet
Which wallet
You ll be beaten to death
Go ahead

Simple and straight
Basics sans weight
Complexity deviates lines
Burden heavier than time

Essence and purpose
On a clear course
Additions add remorse
Simply find the source

Inputs added chaotic
Pieces of the puzzle quixotic
Brain functions neurotic
Break this habit

Perfection of purpose
Relevant alone on the surface
Evolution or intutive the process
Permanent harmony with the results