Left us behind
Or did we decide to stay back
Why do we miss the dead
If they missed us too
Why would they depart
Sure enough that we will join them
Only the years are apart
As common as sunshine or
The glow of the moon
But death stands apart
As an unfair event
Occured to us all
Who is the judge
To judge God
For making ones depart
What is his right to exercise his might
That we give the Hangman too
Treating God as the Messenger
And decide not to shoot
Powerless our presence
Afraid to take him on
Aware that the result won't vary
If your hostile to him
When being devoted too doesn't make a difference
A shoulder to cry
When all is lost
He took it away
Never gave you a day
Always has his way
Stay till one day he takes you too away
Did not end the play
Ended  a character
Already in his Screenplay
Recurring we put a veil
Over our desires
Which never prevail
Some even had uncredited parts
The writer signalled to us all
Repeated viewing neccasary
To understand his plot
Still don't get it all
Yor days not too far off
First hand lesson on the cards

Loved one departed
Sorrow filling up to the brim
Unable to see my mother
Tears drying up her eyes
Missing the man my mentor
Feeling alone inspite of the crowd swelling up
Eerie silence in a noisy room
Will miss him forever
Life never the same
Guided me with his wisdom
My uncle another father
Wrongly assumed he'd always be present
Reminiscing about him
The only way to make him stay
Interactions now one way
Only a reflection in my heart
If it doesn't fall apart

Attatched to machines
7 at a time
Each performing
Functions of an ***** in the body
Unconscious and clueless
Lying with eyes closed
Can't read their thoughts
Does one want this all
Is natural life being prolonged
A good thing after all
Are we fair or unfair
Taking decisions on behalf
Feeling Guilty are we
Showing to the world
Money doesn't matter
All we want is to be ratified by people
Lest any finger be pointed towards our chest
Who can tell wrong and right
Confused conscience is our own plight
If one cannot afford all this
Heart provides the seat
For clarity to be at ease

Family bereaved
Dead are liberated
Doesnt have to live life
Has to live death
Liberation from death
End of rebirth cycle
Gift everyone wants
Qualified or not
Wandering Soul knows
Dead in death
Rebirth to come back
Not wanting both
The answer one never knows
Knowing doesn't change a thing

Be thankful for
Food on your table
Might as well be
Your last meal
Eaten in peace

Meal ready on the table
Taking it for granted
No more on a full stomach
Being are told its enough

The reasons multiple
Nutritious intake to maintain
Good health and living
Might no more be coming

Might have an Icharus
Right in the midst
Need not snitch your presence
Could test the tolerance

Earn your bread
Best lesson ever
Passed on by elders
Knowing how much it matters

Dependence on others
Two square meals a day
Is the greatest curse
May or May not be a ruse

Never put the mind to it
Was always readily available
Empathy with the poor people
Led their lives yearning for that table

Getting rid of this
Mans greatest challenge
No one goes Esurient
Basic values forsaken

Getting used to it
Seems like the only fit
Not asking a luxurious Viand
Basic food now a demand

I'm thankful forever
To whatever happens to
I myself

When things go Cross
Not in tune with my heart
Grateful for nature being graceful
Could have been worse
Could have been better
I don't know the answer
But i know for sure
It is the best outcome
Nature doesn't make a wrong choice

The same is my emotion
When things go with the motion
Time and tide is in favor
God has answered my prayer
Could have been better
Could have been worse
I don't know the answer
Nature doesn't make a wrong choice

I bite the bullet
Or I am on a roll
Gratitude is my only call.
Thank you are the only words

Biting the bullet i thought
I was in a roll i didn't know
I was on the line i assumed
Full if joys of Spring was reality fine tuned

Good or bad
Who am I to decide
One event triggers the pack
Permutations and Combinations in check
Only an all knowing Master can fathom
I cannot know by random

Every experience i underwent
Greeted only with salutation
Flowing with the situation
Not meeting any with condemnation

Erases the line
Good times and Bad times
What remains is only time
Is the even Time?

What is as it is
Simple plain truth
Anything that deviates
Invented and creates
An impression to the contrary
Is a lie
No truth to be Mended
A story told out of imagination
Giving a wrong impression
Non existing in reality
Is a lie

A lie is told
Reasons can be manifold
Not in synchrony with
Ones own harmony
Out of fear  
Of reaction from another
Spiral down to situation
Unpleasant in their definition
To protect another
Cause the truth is bitter
A creature of habit
Reason not necessarily a fit
Distorted self image
Believer in his own lies
Manipulative using lies
To control emotional ties
Social embarrassment in store
Another reason to say the untrue

Biggest error in behaviour
Thinking they sold their lies
To the highest bidder
Not aware prospectively
Their lies were read analytically
Once trust lost
Not a redeemable mortgage card
Forever a suspect
No word taken seriously
Sensing rejection and neglect
Still can't change their conduct

A different reality
They seek daily
Final step in delusion
Life led in seclusion
Not trusted by anyone
Still live in illusion
Most avoidable trait
Time to go straight
Truth about your lies
Telling yourself first
Changes the lies
Told as truths otherwise

Silence is intriguing
Silence has glamour
The less you speak
The more you convey

It lies in the pauses betwixt words
In between notes in Music
The answer given for prayers at a shrine
When lonely the best companion

Silence is an attitude
Marble stones to build character
Loconic is stylish
Iconic in status

Placidity of nature
Stillness in breath
Quiescent in thoughts
Saturnine in death

Represents the Soul
Like it cannot be pointed out
The biggest weapon of a seeker
Reticence in his armour

Does not need censorship
Guardian of good relationships
Respects the emotion of others
Retains forever the authorship of the self

Double edged sword
Shows respect by its presence
Lack of it by refusing to consent
Distance and time don't seperate people but hush of the early dawn does

Has a price to it
When displayed worshipped
Very difficult to attain
Many examples in course of time

Speaks louder then words.
Best answer to insults
Quickest route to success
Doesn't need a recess

Has all the answers
Always carries meaning
The burden of a heavy heart
Borne by it sans a drop

Method of teaching
Conveys every meaning
Amplified with stillness
Meditative with wisdom


A thoughtless mind
Seeking the divine
Heartful of emotion
Finds their address in Silence

Where are you from
I have no idea
Where are you going
To the grave
Do you plan your future
I don't look past the next bend of the road
What are your expectations in life
Serve my time and get out
How do you cope with life
It is what it is
One secret to remain contended
I know my limitations
Your philosophy in life
Don't think feel
How would you like to be remembered
He tried to be a Crackerjack in whatever he did
What do you get upset about
Rude people and i don't respond till they Ask Nicely
Advice to NextGen
Don't waste your talent
Not all can be as good
Did you rebel
Yes against everything they got
A value to pass on
Never snitch
Did you do it answer is no
Did X or Y did it
I don't know

There is no victory
There is no defeat
No one is better than you
You are inferior to nobody
All are equal
Skills may vary
Some score great marks
Others fail the same test
What does it tell
To try something else
Fail again try again
Failing not the problem
Not trying is taking poison
Carving on the stone
Here is a guy
Who tried hard as hell
Nothing more to tell
Life's purpose met

For the good
For the bad
No one knows
Philosophers say could have been worse
Rationalists use staircase wisdom
To tie the knots
Those in between
Lacking faith of lack of
Hoping to find the answer
That never was
Was the right question asked

I had dreams
I had hopes
I had faith
On God People and Miracles
Dreams never made me sleep
Fearing the same dream
That made me wake up
Now makes me toss n turn
Beat a log in the race to sleep
Sleep now only a memory
Singing Alouette to pass the night
Hope and faith
When said to me
Feels like the joke of the century
World weary been there
Seen it all
Shamus in me belittling
The innocence of my past

People i lost
The way to their heart
Or their thought
Stuck midway trying to reach
No one's answering my call
Stuck alone in search of one
Hearts that were pure i knew
Changed hearts not what I want
All in the past
Now I laugh

Miracles and God
I bet my entire  lot
Double or Nothing was the odds
That i gave God
God disappointed me or
Did i disappoint God
I'd have known in the past
Where innocent was not lost
Now i neither know God
Or where i am lost
Even he is not answering my call
But now that doesn't surprise me at all

I had dreams
I had hopes
I had faith
On God People and Miracles
Dreams never made me sleep
Fearing the same dream
That made me wake up
Now makes me toss n turn
Beat a log in the race to sleep
Sleep now only a memory
Singing Alouette to pass the night
Hope and faith
When said to me
Feels like the joke of the century
World weary been there
Seen it all
Shamus in me belittling
The innocence of my past

People i lost
The way to their heart
Or their thought
Stuck midway trying to reach
No one's answering my call
Stuck alone in search of one
Hearts that were pure i knew
Changed hearts not what I want
All in the past
Now I laugh

Miracles and God
I bet my entire  lot
Double or Nothing was the odds
That i gave God
God disappointed me or
Did i disappoint God
I'd have known in the past
Where innocent was not lost
Now i neither know God
Or where i am lost
Even he is not answering my call
But now that doesn't surprise me at all

Consistentcy is the key
To gain respectability
Overcoming the process
Where thoughts digress
Is the hardest
Can be attained by practice
The wavering mind
Judging every single nod
The decree brings instability
Final verdict untrustworthy
Mirroring the behaviour
The greatest error
Being one with yourself
Expression comes natural
Cannot be somebody else
Tried and tested results
Every roadblock their behaviour builds
And every ditch their attitude gives
Manoeuvering every move
Acording to their groove
Cuts the brake s off
High speed crash of personality on the cards
Flexible and moving along
Without loosing the original nature that belongs
If not better off when interaction cut off
Inability to handle
Anyone who's intrinsically cross
Must know the course
Or else don't Tee off
Congruent and come through
Avoid and be true
Protect the uniqueness
Consists of consistency
Clarity of thought
Feeling every moment
You'll become the best respondent

Simmering with tensions
Difference of opinions
Each approving their stand
Other unable to withstand
Self Respect Beliefs and Money
Matters which are very touchy
Questions and Answers thrown
Relationships now a gamble
Questions about lifestyle rambled
Answers given with sacrifices as examples
Hot under the collar
Off the deep end
Every Syllable become venom dipped arrows
Aiming for the heart aim narrows
Issue not solved either
Peace beeping  like an error
Bad taste alone remains
For life tasting bitter

Most stylish walk
Most effective way to talk
Knew it all
Even before the talkies were to start


Made The Big Trail
With Raoul Walsh
On 70 mm and the film flopped
Career took a drop


Waited for 9 years
To be cast by Papa Ford
Ringo Kid in Stagecoach with Claire Trevor
Was born the greatest International Superstar

Westerns  War Drama and Sports films
All genres suited him
Topped the box office 4 decades
23 times made the Quigley list

A record yet to be broken
It needs another Duke Wayne
Kept audiences happy
Quality films he delivered yearly

Every movie now a classic
Revisiting them makes one nostalgic
50 year career
Ended due to the villain called cancer

In our hearts forever
Immortal in his fame
The only and only
Marrion Morrison who became
Duke Wayne

Here in India
All his movies
Sold out at the Box office
In their hearts built his edifice

My father a huge fan
Didn't cry when his parents died
Shed tears when he read that John Wayne had died


A great Patriot
Proud to be an American
Loved the American way
Dreamt the American dream

Most enviable filmography
One Classic after another
Overflowing box office receipts
Dedicated fan following one of the causes

An idol for the common man
Always in tune with his fans
Three generations of a family
Liked the Duke for different reasons naturally

Decades at the top
Found a place
In millions of hearts
For life and beyond

Everyman' tries to copy
John Duke Wayne s personality
Impossible to mimic his life
You can try and stop with his walk

Won an Academy Award
Playing Marshall Rooster Cogburn
True Grit with an eye patch
One more of his conquests


Also turned Director
Westerns and War the genre
Wore many hats with dignity
In his dignity lies his beauty

Started his Banner
Every film a surefire winner
Called the company Batjac productions
Launched many newcomers giving them  a new direction

Default favorite of millions
Had fans across beyond definitions
Always a Republican
Controversial views never affected his reputation

The name John Wayne
Stood for Macho Integrity and honesty
Saddled up for a cause
Whatever the opposition he never paused

Ford Hawks Huston and counting
Auteurs at the top
Colloaborated with the Duke
Their vision in film manifested

Professional to the core
First to come and last to go
Passion for his profession of choice
Made him people s number 1 choice

Am a great fan too
Not his fan i haven't seen two
God bless him his fans and  family
With great reverence i write this solliloqy

As naked as the day
You were born
Till you travel beyond the veil
Not by chance  but by design

People in our lives
Come Go and stay
Did not make their way
By mistake

There is purpose
With those we interact
Have come to teach us
Rights and wrongs
Show directions of where we belong

Experience results from
Our thoughts and actions
They do not wear any disguise
To mislead us

That is the best
That could have happened
We are unable to fathom
The Balance always kept even

Any other way
Misgiving at play
Feeling the intent
Makes us content

Start time is the right time
Getting up from bed
Eyelids closing without asking us
Happens when we are ready never early never late always appropriate

Ego battles bruises
Makes thinking crooked
Realise it is for the better
Say a simple thank you prayer

Let go and move on
Ends for good reason
Loss the Mirage pulls a blanket over the enrichment
Required for our refinement

Theory of evolution
Feeling every moment
Live and love like there's no tomorrow
If there's a Tomorrow live and love like there's no tomorrow

Could not say
Goodbye to the day
Wishing good night an option
Only when you can get some shuteye
The day said Until Later
Didn't wait till i bid adieu
The shadow it left behind
We all call it the Night
Darkness its theme
Silence its voice
Nature' giving you consent
Rest and pleasure sanctioned
First thing in the morning
Used widely by everybody
First thing in the night
Haven't heard that till last night
Liberty to cross the line
Endorsement given by the Night
Brings with it tranquility
Triggers the minds loquacity
Aurora flashing Amber to the daylight returning
Coming in with all the chaos
Time to shut it out and start to focus
Daytime gives you identity
Invading your identity as the moon floats in
Man made rules or nature's gift
If its nature's rules means you don't have a clue
Different music played
One for the night and and changing the side
What if the same played
Either way?

Circular in a clock
Linear in reality
Same time different day
Different time different day

What the clock reflects
Glory or regret
Not by victory or failure
How you used it to full measure

Clock corrects itself
Time management lessons
Time keeper learns from time
Value of time from time to time

Time wasted is time lost
Time is fixed not negotiable
Time bygone edits the time
No more part of timeline

Timeless is created
By those who respect time
Time used to create
Sacrificed food and sleep to gain time

Respected by time
Immortal in time
Disrespect the time
Wastrel title given on hand

Unlimited by nature
Time lasts forever
Time is not fixed for time
Rationed for us use it fine

Time tells you the time
Doesn't interfere with time
Personification of punchuality
Time keeping up time theres no duality

Spend the time and
Save the day
Waste the time
Loose the day

What goes comes around
Back at you
Time can't tell
Careful what you sell
Will get sold to you as well
The price being the lesson
That comes along with
Buyer and seller may vary
Price already decided
By your act
Remains constant
Will get delivered or taken away
Great alarm bell
Inside your memory cell
Infusing in a step by step process
Never delayed never denied
Never lapsed never pardoned
Delivered intact for maximum impact
When and where being beware
Prayer with fanfare can't save you from the electric chair
Still get your share
Fair and square
Connoisseur of serendipity
Flag bearer for destiny
For attempting a Mutiny
Against nature's fortuity
The way the ball bounced
Or the cookie crumbles
Handwritten on the wall
Or the foretell the stars
You reap what you sow
Sow with a conscience
You don't even need gods benovalence
If you realise that in the the sowing and reaping
He is omnipresent

Diverging and opposing
Views with the other
Can be a Value or Taste
Leave it be or rue the day

Reasoning and logic
A case being built
To justify ones fit
To declare the other a misfit

Sharing your thoughts
Which give you joy
Wrong to assume
The same effect it'll draw

Banter moved aside
Argument creeps in
No more about you
Or selling your point of view

Turns into poison
Killing the others reason
Insulting his learning
Insulating yours from humiliation

Game you play
Is played back at you
No more about you
But the sharing you first started to do

Belittling process on
Verbal assault painful
Racetrack with 2 way traffic
Someone will get killed basic logic

Best option not to share
If shared be aware
From being a harmless bore to
A Hostile and threatening fare

Biggest mistake is assuming
Your learning will help the others seeking
Each his own path
Will remain so if you don't cross

Every point in favor
Is told to you backwards
Back and forth same tricks
Crossed swords going for the ****

Relationships at risk
Time already killed
Nothing to be gained
Better off understanding before it all begins

Association and bond
Go for a toss
Everyone at a loss
Rebuilding now a task

Do not try to convince
Hear out fully and exit
Ensure the favor is returned equally
You quality of life will suffer permanently

Talk slow  Talk Low
Walk slow Don't rush anything
Never say much
Never howl or shriek with laughter
Just a smile rarely
Becoming a clown .
Under the guise
Of sense of humour
Suspended forever
Never insult another
Express yourself honestly
Copying a personality
Confusion stalling confidence
Words that come
Should reflect the feelings
Refine yourself inside
Don't have to censor yourself outside
Opinions and judgements
Back to the gutter
Aware and in the moment
Merges your soul and class together

To pass a judgement
Remember you heard
Only one side of the argument
You presented the case
In such a way
You won it anyway

Haven't heard the other
Might tilt the balance forever
Most futile act
Hypocritical pedestal to react
Is coming to conclusions
Based on apprehensions and delusions
Character assasinating with prejudice
Wrong method to deliver justice

Right or Wrong
Not for us to decide
Aware of the act
Just don't react
Decision not to interact
Does not show tact

There is another side
Which caused the divide
Excersize the option
Being neutral and real

Fault finding critical path
Petty incurring your own wrath
Wreaks total lack of class
You'll never stand apart

Size of your heart
How charitable you are
Forgive in your thoughts
Will seem like a distant past

That you had a fallout
Ego reminding throughout
Rising above this selfdom
Realise there's nothing to be lost or won

Save yourself the bluster
From this thorn ridden cluster
Only motive is to deliver
Impeccable conduct and behaviour

Express yourself honestly
When you act
React and regret go together
All the learning down the wire

Basing your conduct
Mirroring the other
In trying to gather
The attitude of the other

Moment of knowing
Has no beginning or end
Accumulating without implementing
You have let down your master

A bit of wit and humour
Adds its own glamour
Going thru life s grind
Welcome detour  for the mind

Physical in nature
Body and face expression
Used to evoke laughter
Slapstick never goes out of favour

Making fun of oneself
Ability to laugh at the self
Joke made out of ones own actions
Self depreciating humor in all its essence

Absurd used for amusement
Situations and themes
Illogical and weird
Nonsensical in its creation Surreal the name given

On the spot
A Wisecrack or a repartee
Not planned already
Quick and immediate called
Improvisational  comic relief does the trick

Pun in words
Double entendre infused
Language manipulated for laughs
Wordplay humor on the cards

Current events the theme
Pleasent  spin to the event
Comedy shows have them as core
Topical humor requires knowledge of trends in the now

Daily routine s as theme
Fun poked at it adds gleam
Campy in its nature
Observational humour hidden under

Not for all tastes
Toilet jokes never go waste
Fun made of everything given by law of nature
****** ribald not meant for all

A bit of wit and humour
Adds its own glamour
Going thru life s grind
Welcome detour  for the mind

Physical in nature
Body and face expression
Used to evoke laughter
Slapstick never goes out of favour

Making fun of oneself
Ability to laugh at the self
Joke made out of ones own actions
Self depreciating humor in all its essence

Absurd used for amusement
Situations and themes
Illogical and weird
Nonsensical in its creation Surreal the name given

On the spot
A Wisecrack or a repartee
Not planned already
Quick and immediate called
Improvisational  comic relief does the trick

Pun in words
Double entendre infused
Language manipulated for laughs
Wordplay humor on the cards

Current events the theme
Pleasent  spin to the event
Comedy shows have them as core
Topical humor requires knowledge of trends in the now

Daily routine s as theme
Fun poked at it adds gleam
Campy in its nature
Observational humour hidden under

Not for all tastes
Toilet jokes never go waste
Fun made of everything given by law of nature
****** ribald not meant for all

Heart pounding faster
Or skipping a beat
Forcing to retreat
Overcoming it a feat

Willing to forego
Defaulted rent to be paid
An uninvited guest
Manipulating the rest

Threat of imminent
Pain and danger
Lurking in the corner
State of emotion called fear

A paralysing state
Leaves a bad taste
Driving force behind
Decision making alligned

Alarm called anxiety
State of dismay and worry
Fret stress and distress
Mind paralysed with no hope in sight

Born with Scare
Foundation of values
Defined by the terror
Fear the river that runs through personality and character

Real or unreal
Does not matter
Ability to tell the difference
Now a tall order

Cowardice the capital
Of the state of fear
Inability to pursue
Timidity the injury to endure

Fear tests my strength
Cripples me trying to attempt
Breaking my spirit from within
Creating illusions from nothing

People and issues
Alone and the dark
A frenzied mob
Fear for the sake of fear

Mistakes made add up
Pushes down to the nadir
Ray of hope under the veil
Searching for the veil life's only deal

Guilt and lies
Feed the fear like Nuclear
Making it tougher
Than it already is

Dreams and desires
Lay by the wayside
Inability to conquer
Plunging into depths deeper

Mind bending substances
Drinking and drugs for example
Feeds the terror hungry for more
Sanity hanging in balance knocking on psychosis

Not a psychiatric condition
Just plain old world state of mind
Shadow to the coward
Freezed at every turn statues built in remembrance

Comes with time
Goes away in time
No reason why
I feel the fear

No act done
Thoughts maybe some
To warrant despair
Anxiety alarm in the air

Cerebral switch on
Logical reasoning upon
Hoping to respond
Seems to be beyond

Inner search next
Step taken in the quest
Life's biggest test
Scare and angst there with zest

Fear of success
Fear of failure
Fear of the known
Fear of the unknown

Aware of the emotion
Available best solution
Reality or a notion
Figuring it out becomes full time occupation

Occupies the mind space
Diversion tricks failed
There for a fixed period
Changes everytime visited

Resisting the biggest mistake
Counterattack turns out a waste
Not resisting the best therapy
Weakens the fear and goes away quickly

Unable to finish
Task in hand
Perfectly fine
Got dealt a bad hand
Others do it better
Really doesn't matter
Unable to earn respect
Don't feel upset
Its the others perspect
Let them be the
Masters of the subject
Getting snubbed for nothing
By the people who know everything
Ignore the insult
Do not confront
Asked to apologise
For what don't realise
Do it naturally
Move away gradually
Image of a clown
To others tunes dancing around
Image built in concrete
Passed onto others indiscreet
Never take it to heart
Be the circus act
Do not worry about the impact
Reason lacking guile and tact
Lowest in a percentile graph
Laugh along as others laugh
Not worthy to be remembered
Oblivion is not a bad word
Create your own world
Insulated from abuse hurled
Shooed away lacking personality
Try not to take it personally
All these qualities are enviable
Society might find it expendable
Let go and move on
Take pride in being what you are
The others must change
You stay who you are
Take the name of Misfits
Wear this on your shoulder
Express yourself better
Not in sync with society
No need to be filled with anxiety
Let the world behave
By the definition it creates
You just be
Don't try to change
To go to the other side of the fence
A total misfit
Fine with it
Bruce Lee calls himself one
Leading from the front
Part of a group
Bruce Lee authorised troup
What more do you want
Misfits together you belong

Bottles of Alcohol
Hidden in the house
Beds Cupboards and toilets
Empty spaces becoming crates

Full empty or half filled
Not the optimist pessimist parable
Binge drinking continuous shows
Film without ****** on the roll


State of Alcoholic Coma
After week's of drama
Acts and deeds done
Three sheets to the wind

The abode of evil
Not with the devil
John Barleycorn straight up
Wrong horse galloping downhill

Clock on the wall stopped
Without food for days
Wallets credit limit reached
Beg borrow or steal for the refill

Wake drink sleep repeat
Fight Abuse Beat repeat
Fall injure Bleed repeat
Blackout Blackout Blackout repeat

Respect Esteem sailed away
On the waves of the drinks gulped away
Empty bottles floating along
Reminding  that in society no more belong

Myraid of Mirages
Illusions fuelled hallucinations
Duelling with  brain
Telling you reality is not the same

Delusion creates the fear
Interval between clarity
Yearning for normalcy
Sequential dreams more scary

Directions of the mind
Thoughts causing traffic jams
Wandering away from centre
Topics past future and dreams

Extrapolation does the manipulation
Imagination with nothing to give reality
Bumpy road added with speed breakers
Full throttle ends in a misdemeanor


Centred around us or
In a zone totally alien
Accumulated thought process
Does not know where to rest

Opinions Beliefs and Ideas
Dysfunctional in its pedigree
Poisoned by the debris
Exiting albeit only temporarily

Bedlam and chaos
No empty seats
Resembles a mob scene
Deluge  resulting in a stampede

Born into this world
Can't escape from it
Serve your sentence
Doors open automatically
Can't stay even if you want to
Rules and regulations abound
Perfection & Performance rewarded
Mistakes & Lapses punished
Report card for every deed
The man upstairs will read
No parole offered
Leaving early not an option
Sentence gives experience
Learnt many a lesson
Lasting this lifetime
Years of sentence
Only known to the
Keys to the gates
They open and you know
Time has been served
For what crime are you here
If you know the answer
You ll stay clear forever
Serial offender comes back
Till he seeks the reason
For this repetitive affair
Purpose of sentence
Learn from the experience
Become one with the jury
Life sentence called birth
The parole is death

Having emotional content
Energy of creation
Staying connected to each
Being totally present
Living life in the moment
Awareness Open mindedness
Impartial observation
Presence of emotional content
A state of connection
To the spiritual creation
No longer in Isolation

Stay in the moment
Experience the experience
Being present in that situation
Communication of feelings
Authentic and unique
Origin of enlightenment
Understanding the heart
Living in that harmony
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Unsuccessful at what they do
Do what they're told to do
Not in the best manner possible
Lacking the trust of friends and family circles
Bad at accepting defeat
Which is consistently their feat
Higher Value deminishing
After they were part of it
Yearning for respect
Always a suspect
Never shown interest
Treated with disrespect
Ignored unless of use
Also ran since school
Angry and absents himself
Return to find that was never missed
Failing regularly at task in hand
Incompetence goes hand in hand
At a disadvantage in any situation
Low esteem casting shadow
All directions giving shade to his sorrow
Joker of the pack
Clown of the room
Cartoon in the ballroom
Comedian of his dominion
Snubbed with ease
Always ready to be teased
Made to apologise
Unapologetic behaviour from the other side
Showed away like a number
His name no one cares to remember
Swatted away like a fly
Best weapon is to go home and cry
Walks away without a whimper
Treated badly in society
Even that not in the memory
Misfit tired of facing the heat
Other misfits have reserved his seat
Nothing concrete to speak
In his life time becomes obselete
Lowest point on the percentile graph
None bothered to even pass a remark
Been there done that
That's how I know it so well
Life added complex already born with
Brutal and Savage conduct from birth dealt with

Intelligence is guessing
The others thinking
Turning out right
Accident or Statistical probability
Logical reasoning the meter
Used to judge clinically
Logical nightmare called life
Outcome how can one navigate
In the wrong side
Branded immediately as
Living in a fools paradise
Out thinking the other
Used by Military commanders
Which side of Waterloo
Decides whether you are intelligent or a fool

Conflict in the heart
Mind shifting gears
Heart and Mind at War
Pain that affects wholly and completely
Cannot be ignored
Tests your strength
A tenant who goes away
Seeking permanence by force
Time clears it away
Time teaches the way
Both can be true
Causing to feel blue
Teaches tolerance &  endurance
There for a reason
Can hurt and stay
Can hurt and change
Hurt is medicine
Leaves you stronger
When it leaves you
Rugged weary and beautiful
Living with pain
Gives life meaning
Numbing the process
Running away from it
Waiting at the finish line
Becomes the starting line
Tears the medicine
Balancing the pain
Tears dry away
Taking along the aches away
Pain the polish used to
Brush our souls to shine
Escaping from pain
Causes more pain than pain

Wanting to want
Things like before
Past makes perfect sense
Never going to be in the tense
Inability to guage
Present and future state
Colored vision prompting
Eyes looking backwards
In reverse in the present
Looking back not ahead
If time travel were a reality
Not the past but future we'd all  like to see

Theater going experience
Celebrate the  nuance
The cinematic renaissance
Every heart with images tattooed on



The Godfather released again
50 th Anniversary celebration
Watched it for the occasion
Occasion an excuse to watch this cinematic Brandonization

The Acting masterclass
Method acting czar
A supporting cast
His work their acting class


Every frame a meditation
Dialogues cemented for generations
Haunting music causing the reverberation
Cast members giving free acting demonstrations

Always in memory
Revisiting not necessary
Views adding perspective
Revisiting now neccasary

Life altering occurance
From the opening sequence
Karaoke in the movie theatre
Every member a   Brando impersonator

Sold out crowd
Then and now
Only time has passed
Godfather in groundhog day syndrome

A new cinematic universe
Example of  a metaverse
Effects and Computers
Replaced the emotions and the actors

Only hope to liberate
World from its current cinematic  fate
If they fail to save
We will only have anniversaries to celebrate

Music is in the air
A few decided to share
The sounds they heard playing
Gave it a name called composing

They were magicians
Knew all about instruments
Instructing the instruments to play
Gave it a name called Music

Rhythm Melody and Harmony
Texture Timbre and Dynamic Aspects to create the basics
Scattered pieces put together Gave it a name called Musicians

Stirring the Souls
All they require is a note
Making our hearts to move
They do it with a tune

Orchestration to give form
Final music in their heads
Playing in order already
Sharing their inner beauty

Providing the Score
To our lives
Each unique to each person
Musician s original profession

Every form of emotion
Played in the device
Of their choice
Reflection of  our feelings captured with poise

They speak through their chords
Greatest linguist amongst all
Expression their art
The most gifted lot

Verses and refrains
Points and Counterpoints
Sections and Instruments
The Musical oxygen

Life has its music
Only that we don't hear it
Too busy looking good
Ignoring the music making us ignorant fools

Life without the music
Silence is a tune
Silent movies had music
Music came  before talkies

Speaks no language
Communicates  to the illeterate
Doesn't judge worthiness
Gives it as delivarance

Alone with the self
As 2 with another
The 3 paths to salvation
The 4 Noble truths
The 5 elements
The 6 senses
None exists without the musicians take on it

Doubts about creations
Theist Athiest or Darwinian
Questioning the limitations
These can be set to music
Says the all encompassing Musician

Lullaby or  Dirge
Every stage of life is forged
Open your hearts
Feel  the chorus in all

The only world without borders
No visa or passport required
Has already achieved the impossible
Making humanity as one with his Music

Indoctrinated since birth
The do ' s and the don't's
Building character the aim
Ownership they can claim

Value systems in place
Personality grows in its own space
Meeting point between the two
Guilt starts taking a point of view

Ones own belief system
Builds itself unique and bloosom
In sync with god's kingdom
Another dichotomy added at random

Intrinsic nature the foundation
Inculcated persuasion added to the equation
Faith and Belief adding themselves as a function
The world functions on its own dictum


Layers of existence
Brought forward cognisance
Complicated as inheritance
Fuel to fire is the occurrence

Points waiting to be connected
Scale for that yet to be invented
Investigation the formula acquired
To realise that this journey is required

Unlearning the learning
Jettisoning the scrap
Lightening the mind
Fulfilling the heart

Seeking the essence
Seeking the journey
Seeking no destination
Points now connected

Constant change evident
Change constant possible
Constant change impossible to predict
Change constant statistical nightmare
Thinking linear always surprised
Logical conclusion not always delivered

Predicting and planning
No axis to revolve around
Nothing to follow
Go with the flow

Double whammy served
Intellect often snubbed
Bruised ego remains
Following a fixed routine

Only the now
Truth to behold
Past null and void
Future never real

Living in the present
No decision taken
Life into a description
A new permutation not foreseen

Unpredictable in its core
Predictable anything may show
Wake up next day
Only the present is here to stay

Cowards die a thousand deaths
Rehearsal done when alive
Will the take  go smoothly
Retake  not an option
Timer on the clapboard faster than usual
None to give feedback or access any prewritten manual

Do what is required
To lead the life you wanted
Else let life happens and
Take you where you deserve

Live as an example
Possess qualities with integrity
Make yourself trustworthy
You'll end up writing an Autobiography

The way you
Lead your life
Becomes other people 's
Survival guide


Climbing the ladder
For Reasons unknown
Crisis one step below
Pulling down negating the ascent

Doesn't matter then
One can do only
What could be done by them
Not a guide or a biography still led a life worthy

Achievement by destruction
In the midst of ruins laying foundation
Death and destruction as equity
Blood and hate as collateral security
Bruised egos closely knit
Balm for ego in showing might
Humanity  the casuality
Humans bartered for harmony
Division in Construction
Despair in Growth
Bullets fired aimlessly
Nothing aimed with more clarity
The bullet doesn't ****
Blaming it still
Winning  never conquers
Conquerors never win

Missing when gone
Never to return
One way street
Memories to tweet
Relishing every moment
Wounds of seperation more open
Precious when happened
Took it for granted
Pangs of seperation no different
Played it either way
The outcome remains the same
Detachment a pill
Part only of a saints drill
Emotional human's travails
Seperation readily avails
Its the reality that prevails
Reasoning cannot unveil
Rely on recall
Relive on call
You onto yourself
Enjoy the company alone

Moon setting the tone
For what is to come
As the night prepares
Not its debut performance
But the stories differ
Some play the role played before
Some have left the floor after  the show before
Few have come before it reopens the door

Its darkness pervades
Light the exception
Has no role to play
A few hours into the day

Human life the currency
Paid as a price
Peace the quest
For human life's security
Greatest of irony
Laid to rest
In order to possess
Peace for the rest

The temple of hate
Grants a boon called War
Cemeteries will find more symmetry
More lessons for future history
Feelings for lives in danger
Taken without any disclaimer
Making humans an endangered species
Is the only goal battle achieves

Riding the Rodeo
Not falling of the saddle
Bumpy ride ahead
You knew the battle
Falling off nature's order
Why did you fall
All that matters
Next time a better try
Don't fall for the same reason
Fall again learn again
Wrangling the horse
You think you've mastered
Rodeo throws in s bull
Cannot sit still
Rules of the game
Remain the same
Its not the horse or the bull
That cannot stay still
Its you on the inside
Giving yourself the bumpy ride
Stay still and try the drill
Nothing changes outside
But now you don't fall of the saddle

Reached a dead end
A crowded place
Many there before you
Wondering what to do
Many more will follow you
Not aware like you were
And the many before
Looking at the rear view mirror
The moving traffic going by
Alternating the brakes and gears
Pushing their pedals to the floor
Confidence has got their back door
Wondering how we got there
In the first place
Moving away from the moving traffic
Take a few steps back
Introspection the fuel
Not part of any duel
Nothing is lost relax
Its not a racetrack
Not horses to be Jockeyed
No numbers on our backs
Use the time out
Think it out
Get back on track
Not to win anything back
Dead end thought its lesson
Now time to saddle back

Canvas skeched by God
Imagery so perfect
Imperfections not seen as flawed
Images change constantly
Permutations played beautifully
Yet not calculated statistically
Inability to foresee
Mans own defeciency
Picture painted always right
Projecting on to itself
Converse of  a mirror image
Left and Right not a reflection
When the painter and the painted
Remain the same
The painting carries no name
Fill in yours if in harmony
Search for if in dichotomy
Lay it all on the almighty
Ignore it completely
Hangs on the wall
Part of the imagery
Viewer part of the imagery
Viewed not externally
Painter and the painted
Now in complete synchrony

Born without clothes
Food taken is nature' s order
Day or night did not bother
Weak and exposed  still were taken care

Crying and sleeping filled the time
Not aware of time
Thought process yet to start
Were still taken care of

Growing up and observing
Slowly comes the learning
Is it the unlearning
Forgetting that we were taken care

Intelligence and Intellect
Knowledge  and no more naked
Survival kits all in the bag
Sans the above were still taken care

What happened today
What has changed
Growth the clothes covering the ignorance
Making us forget that we were taken care

Taken care by who
Taken care by what
Taken care till when
Did it really end