Success is a shifting goal post
Adversity is trying to fix it
Success trying to score
Failure leaves the ego sore

Bruised ego can be played
Which side of your balance sheet its displayed
Debited to your memory
A big burden to carry
Credited to your heart
You start to tell things apart

Success failure doesn't matter
Should neither feel better or bitter
Percentile basis used to measure
Triggers an unwanted competitive nature

Failure is a state of mind
Unless you give  it a reality
Said the great Bruce Lee
Its true for all of us to see

Success is a dead end
Failure teaches Curiosity
To make use of an opportunity
The success of failure lies in the maturity
The invaluable learning
That only humbling experiences can teach
Failure of Success without maturity
Lies in its inability to be of use to anybody
If not of value to society
Or sharing it with the needy
Is like playing the game of Monopoly Solitarily

True for the rest
Mind says otherwise
Crazy in the head
Unfairly society says
Mind plays games
Goes with the territory
Thin line between insanity
Not reached there
Consider oneself lucky
Off the bend
Unable to mend
Race car on the highway of delusion
Brakes not working there's no turning
Logically explained like anything else
The Doctors play out this exercise
A speciality in medicine it's become
That's how far close we have come
Reality and illusion blurring
A Dream  while awake
Doesn't seem  to end
Even when asleep
Mind at war with itself
Mental suicide in progress
Ravaged by conflicting thought process
Living with oneself also becomes dual

True for the rest
Mind says otherwise
Crazy in the head
Unfairly society says
Mind plays games
Goes with the territory
Thin line between insanity
Not reached there
Consider oneself lucky
Off the bend
Unable to mend
Race car on the highway of delusion
Brakes not working there's no turning
Logically explained like anything else
The Doctors play out this exercise
A speciality in medicine it's become
That's how far close we have come
Reality and illusion blurring
A Dream  while awake
Doesn't seem  to end
Even when asleep
Mind at war with itself
Mental suicide in progress
Ravaged by conflicting thought process
Living with oneself also becomes dual

Waking up as the sun goes up
Toing and froing life in a limbo
Burning candles both ends
Waking up not a toaster
Doesn't come with a guarantee
Shadow of a moon over a pond
Now here now not
Uncertainty of the shadow
With one follows
Shadow a silhouette by itself
Uncertainty of a silhouette
Proves how unreal
The process one daily deals
And that Mirages tried to seal
Not carried when 6 feet under
Up in flames one with Amber
Not left behind either
Statue built of illusion
To carry the legacy
So one believes
Fabric of fiction
Fable of fantasy
Visualization of vision
Inflated values given
Greatest sin of man
Pass on to the next generation
The same unreal burden
Falmily trees become chain gangs
False understanding looming over
Playing the role of the warden
Not allowing one to escape from the prison of  phantasm
Built with  walls dating back
From time immemorial

Some people live life
Rest only hide from it
Heart on the sleeve
Facing the heat
Relishing every moment
Counting it as a blessing
Cought in the downpour
Walking through the desert
They threw the dice
Number that comes up
Decides their fate
Living life is a blind date
Work out any which way
Bail out of the date
Life still happens anyway
Afraid to climb the mountains
Standing below wondering about slipping
Doesn't change anything
Facing the fear lot less painful
Than Running away from it
Swinging on the pendulum
On both ends of the spectrum
What happens in between
Is the life that's destined
Dealt with cards wanting to fold
The folded card still gets its due

Some people live life
Rest only hide from it
Heart on the sleeve
Facing the heat
Relishing every moment
Counting it as a blessing
Cought in the downpour
Walking through the desert
They threw the dice
Number that comes up
Decides their fate
Living life is a blind date
Work out any which way
Bail out of the date
Life still happens anyway
Afraid to climb the mountains
Standing below wondering about slipping
Doesn't change anything
Facing the fear lot less painful
Than Running away from it
Swinging on the pendulum
On both ends of the spectrum
What happens in between
Is the life that's destined
Dealt with cards wanting to fold
The folded card still gets its due

Black coffins on the oceans
Cemeteries by the sea
I wonder where do I see
Its there as far as i can see
Carrying my past
Fought it with my present
Done it to death
Laid it to rest
Floating on the high seas
Haunting me to tease
Bury it in the cemetery
Don't store it in my memory

I am a man of little faith
Was engulfed by it
As the chapters of life unfolded
The wordings became narrower
Other editions had a lesson
It was called  hope
From mine was missing
Was there at the beginning
Had to take my tests
Without the two chapters
Learnt a lesson not in the book
To take the tests without faith and hope
Scored better from then on
Book cought my eye now
Fascinated to see the missing
Section
Staring at me with a mission
Dawned the realisation
The book remained the same
Blinded mind had put me to shame
Wrote the tests from the book
The tests remained the same
I had the wrong aim
Book took the blame
Checked it again
Even the book was not the same

Another day went away
Awaiting a good tomorrow
And a better day after
The days are the same
Our thoughts play the game
Ranking in order of  change
For good or bad we decide
Whole picture have no Idea
Deciding the quality of a film
By the commercials screened before it begins
A silent observer to the day
Not linear our life's screenplay
Awareness that we don't know
Is the secret to know what you know

World Professional Karate Champion
Chuck Norris' partner and friend
Did 3 films with Bruce Lee
The character of OHara
Named after Bruce' s friend Mitsui Uheyara
Left a lasting impression
In our hearts and minds
The scar on the face and a demanour lacking grace
Wonderfully he potrayed
A great Fighter and Teacher
Will be remembered forever
He left us leaving a void
But can still see him in the cinema halls
Will be missed by all his fans
Those born today will know of him soon
The movies gave him the immortality boon

For every scar
I wrote a song
Sang it along
Alone and forlorn
Sombre the mood
Created the meloncholy tune
Verses created by emotions
Ignorance played the chords
Fear hit the notes
Symphony created by Thoughts
Mind conducting the orchestra
World's largest stage called life
Not a single audience in sight
Memory helping in recall
Tells the same story
But not a broken record
Hoping one day to play it all
Not to reach the top of any chart
A lesson for those who come after
The background score will prevent them
When they are about to falter
Life's lessons in a record
Future generations can learn a lot

Certitude in a fellow
Not a birthright to follow
Living upto your value system
Not his life's mission

Natural instinct to trust
Imposing on the other
Ones own conduct
Bruised by the final result

Natural instinct to doubt
Does everything roundabout
Secrets and lies piling up
Nervous wreck the final result

Trust and disappointment
Go together hand in hand
Distrust and fear
Travel together far and near

Lays the foundation
Relationships and communication
Brings with it respect
Returned with interest

Badge of honor
Merit card for character
Liked or loved doesn't matter
Trust stands above all other

Has to be earned
Takes years to be one
Never doled out for free
Refill option not guaranteed

Opens doors to betrayal
Pain aches and disapproval
Losing faith in humanity
And even the almighty

Happens to most
Consistently and frequently
Makes one more wary
Equals self pity as a despicable quality

Misplaced trust greatest weapon
Used against you always open
Some may excersize the option
Humanities existence now a question

No point of balance
Careful just a parlance
Not a substitute
Word to make you feel lesser of a fool

Expectation its ally
Faith and belief sky high
Once bitten twice shy
Once ditched self trust the fall guy

Many a victim
Trust gone wrong
Learnt the lesson
One enough for a lifetime

Boarded the same train
Striking out at different stations
Disembarking on their destinations
These are Saints famous quotations

Guard waves the flag
Whistle blows and train moves
Wheels rolling on the tracks pulling carriages one by one

Waiting for none
Father mother son
Safely till terminus
Source or end not its business

This is the Anectode
Told as an antidote
Paradigm of reality
Remain balanced emotionally

Harsh in its execution
To its duty alone devotion
Needles move to declare
Time to leave fair and square

Loosing loved ones
Easily said than done
Unless heart made of stone
Rest of an living life live  alone

Missing the ones
Not left as bygones
Core of any philosophy
The message it carries

Permanence in temporary
Reality in reality
Realising the reality
Temporal is temporary

Real and unreal
Permanent and temporary
Dream and reality
Rebirth and Salvation

Clueless at arrival
Clueless in queue
Clueless as traveller
Clueless in departure

How does it matter
Near and dear exit earlier
Everyone is exciting for sure
No exception no answer

Pulling the chain
Trains holy grail
Hangs as temptation
No points for engaging in that action

Be the driver
Engaging in his endevour
Uniform and recruited as soldier
He too exits but till then deliver

The ringing of the bell
From the telephone
That is not in your home
From where the echo comes
Searching for it
Which doesn't exist
Eager to recieve and answer
Messages posted and delivered within your head

Born with wisdom
Birth setting of the timer
Dream starts its travel
Which our lacking masks as real
Giving reality to fantasy
Ambition to an illusion
And vision to a delusion
Pipe dream to the dream
Cluttered with thoughts
Various battles fought
Victory a daze
Defeat a haze
Acted upon with haste
Result only a bad taste
Based on these rate
Or else blame fate
God is great
After all he did create
Hoping you will negate
And finally able to relate
To the dream state
As the dream state
Using wisdom which is innate
To throw light and illuminate
When its time to recreate
God ensures the role you play in his play is your last play

In Silence lies the meaning
Be it a question we are seeking
Or an answer we are giving
It has more words than spoken words

The sound from the soundless
A balm for the affected
Peace and quiet it beckons
By itself it reckons

Verbal silence a discipline
Or nature from within
Quietitude of the mind
Lifetime battle in the hand

Stillness has reasoning
More than the points debating
Dancing mind takes a stance
To the noise produced from the voice

Silence has one tune
Have to sway to its croon
Sway within the notes
Kept to a bare minimum

Reflects a satisfied self
Not worried about heaven or hell
Gets respect from the rest
Self and rest removed the restless

Setting up a goal
Future now a post
Wanting to be that
Without knowing what
To work towards an unknown
It remains till it becomes a known
How do you know a unknown
Will fetch you the throne
Basis for deciding a destination
Never visited before
Calling it as ambition
Justifying the action
How does one decide
To do what he does
Calls it life's purpose
Wouldn't he have been there in the first
Peer pressure a reason
Following the footsteps
Necessarily need not lead to the same doorstep
Carefully watch your step
Don't know the end result
What is it that drives
To be one step ahead
To be the best
Rather than just to survive
Chosen Target to achieve
Felt passionately naturally
Target it ceases to become
It has to be your own
Can happen at any point
Trial and error method not wrong
Clarity a overrated virtue
Irony that there can be clarity
Never been there already
Always wondered how
People know why
Laying foundation for their future
Not sure if the building is coming up anywhere closer

Eluded me this lifetime
Before during or past my prime
Everything changes with time
Constant this remains is my complaint
Brought forward fear from the earlier birth
During my childhood set forth
Ever present panic looming
Added by my convent schooling
Compounded the  panic
Movie watching with my father the only tonic
Misplaced ideas and goals
Turned my teenage into a drought
Reality elusive as for every dreamer
My dreams were unrealistic even as a dream
Sense of lacking
Permanently prevailing
Addiction filling the vacuum
Another decade made its way past
Leaving behind more indications of doom
Reason and logic
All sounding fantastic
Battle raged heart
World weary thought
Only asset to possess
No place probably left
In heart or thought
To rent or lease if not buy
The only thing elusive in life
Will i find it in my next try
The all pervading oneness
Which brings along with it the elusive Happiness

Way past the prime
No idea of day date or time
None of these make a difference
Cause there is nothing requiring inference
Sunrise and Sunset only adding beauty
Not interested in its duty
Days and Nights
Come and Go
I have no where to go
Have to live with myself
Memories run on a projector
Screening a movie called Reminiscing
Repeated viewing 3 shows daily
Never gets tiring
Good ol days  
Life taking its Many ways
Based on choices made
Regret or don't
Matters no more
Except in the light from the projector beaming
Sitting in the Aisle seat
Watching a movie
Reflecting my own reality
In a movie directed by many
Produced by destiny
Will continue watching
As even though its maker
Even I do not know when it will end

Any thought or act
Will come back
Invest in goodness
Gratitude the gestation
If Returns not interested
Interest rates given by Almighty
Not fathomable by any Society

Anxiety about the outcome
Ceases after reality it becomes
Fear of loss
More painful than actual loss
Concrete result gives clarity
Time to plan next stratergy
Results always accurate
Till displayed one gets desperate
Hoping the worst
Mankind's core nature
Self defence mechanism
To create fall back escapism

Polarised political stances
Broadly as Right and Left
Conservatives and Liberals
Opposite ends of the Spectrum

Caste based divisions
And religious conversions
Causing widespread violence
All time low the tolerance

Earlier regimes blamed
Country loosing its identity
Voters manipulated with Currency
All in the name of democracy

Cultural Social and Political
Philosophies are merged
Organized Religon and Electoral decision
Also known as Right Wing Association

Social and Economic equality
Socialism and Communism given equity
Civil liberties and individual rights
Agendas of the Liberals known as the Left

Accused of burying tradition
Markets not deciding valuation
Governmental influence expansion
Religious tolerance and favor of immigration

Core value system
Ends of the swings of the pendulum
Right to birth or not
Another great dividing block

Economic Education Environmental
Taxation Weapons Immigration
Health  Abortion & Discrimination
Market and Government Religious tolerance

Every political issue
Divided to pursue
Agenda closest to heart
Best of both not a choice

Both the beliefs
Unifying or Divisive
Side of the fence
You are sitting depends

People influenced and passions triggered
Both playing a part demonising the other
People as divided as the ideology
Considering the middle road a travesty

Tiger and an Tusker
Facing of each other
Who wins the fight
Does it matter
That ship has sailed can't get  lower

End result evident
People Countries and the World divided
Neither willing for a peace deal
Meeting point points towards
A war field

Political agnostic
Branded an escapist
Being Apolitical not an option
Its never your decision

Take a side
Ride the Tide
Face the Tide
Halfway must collide

Avoid the tide branded a coward
Waiting for it to subside
Not going to happen
Everywhere there is a divide

A theatre Marquee
Name of the Star above the title
Black letters on a white board arranged with the rating
The seats according to prizes listed
Red letters with the  word Full
Attesting that theres no room
Green letters signalling the availability
Nothing brought more pleasure
In standing outside a movie theater
Gazing at the Poster
Staring at the life size cut outs of its star
Wish life started and ended in between the walls of these movie halls

Grateful Dead + Drugs > God
Said a poster
Outside the venue
With the Dead playing Live
Read another banner saying
I need a miracle
Call it the Live Dead Oxymoron
If the Miracle did happen
Who made it happen
The equation says it all
Or so i thought
Till I saw the paradox
The Dead the Drugs or God

The word death
Sends a fright
Fear of death
Right from birth

Its a known
As we grow
We come to know
Seeds of darkness sowed

Ambuiguity created scare
Death is the exception
From which there's no exception
United mankind by  this one action

It is irreversible
Not so subtle
Root of anxiety
The final discovery

Afraid of an event
That is bound to happen
Greatest irony lies
When dead we are not alive

An occurrence in our absence
Not even as a witness
Logically not even concurrent
Happens one after next

Is it conditioning
Part of greater planning
A process of learning
Everything or nothing

Never gives a feedback
So never know its bad
At the most confused
By  great thinkers argued

Unique in everyday
Never know night or day
Which time to say
I'm on my way

No reviews yet
Only theories at best
Is it good or bad
It never promised either


Ready when it comes
Easily said than done
Logically fool proof
Makes our lives a spoof

Loved ones lost
Many seperation  in the past
How long will  we last
Will never be a past for one  to recall

Opposite of hate is love
Often told to us even now
Sounds correct apparently
But wrong intrinsically

Antonym is detachment
Hatred creates attachment
Is a very strong emotion
Explosion and Implosion

Hate is emotional poison
Wrap it around your arms
Spirit gets sprayed with pollution
Resulting in self destruction

Drinking poising hoping
The other person dies
Perhaps the greatest irony
Mascarading itself as logic

Heart of hate are blame and shame
Feeling wrong and victimized
Evokes anger which carries the seeds
Hatred first planted nurtured by venom that fills the soul

Greatest disease is self hate
Dislike for self Waiting with many baits
All to common traits
Lonely and Alone till death awaits

Kindness and Hatred
Inside the two wolves reside
Who wins the fight
The one you feed with might

A natural emotion
Allow it to pass on
Nurturing it by dwelling
Add more suffering to the suffering

Hearing voices in the head
So real the real seems unreal
Inability to tell the difference
Sanity Insanity juxtaposing at random
Advanced science cannot fathom
Switch off the volume
Even if it means my casket on a funeral pyre
Choice between being deaf or brain dead
I'll gladly choose the later

Rewrite my past
Predicting my future
Both tasks futile
You only live twice

All the mistakes
Which caused heartaches
I still did it knowingly or unknowingly
Dream and reality confused me convincingly

Beaten Bruised Battered
Hopes of living life shattered
Seeing others living well
Jealousy better but intelligence insulted

Alarm bells ringing
Sounded like a bugle
Wake up call given by a
A single thought

Stagnant and drowning
Unfulfilled ambitions vision blurring
Causes unearthed by questions
Thoughts answered by feelings

Years of dust
Covering the quest
Cluttered debris requires
Due diligence process

Clarity dawns like the curtain rises
The play now clear for the far sighted
Foresight was missing ,proved to be a blessing
First row seats given  as lessons unfolded

Starting the second coming
With an Ostrich or a Phoenix
Rare they are on the course
It has 18 life has many more

Awareness the soul
Synchrony its goal
What to do trial and error
What not to do none clearer

Been there Done that
Picture perfect mindset
Nothing and Nobody  has changed
Still everything looks different

Heart on the right side
Inquisitive to your self
The things that matter
How many did i falter?

Fair in  evaluation
Translate to action
Hurt the other
Guilt not the answer

Intentions always noble
Ability to handle
Good bad and the ugly
with  poise and equanimity

Living for others
Is true living
Pay it forward
Or Return the favor

Process of Forgiving
Others deeds and self
Lagging behind holding grudges
Sure way to hinder progress

Wishing others well
Feelings from the heart swell
Selfless in joy
Comeradely in difficulty.

Class sets apart
With behaviour and heart
Good and large
On the correct path

Avoiding any conflict
Ability to restrict
Being in pursuit
Goodness only to Salute

The only thought process
To give shine  to the better
Self  inquire about the other
Repeating mistakes never

Words used to convey
Polite and respectful always
Loosing balance and temper
Not an option must remember

Not a luxury
Baggage of necessity
Interaction causing this tragedy
Governed by the ego mighty

A good man
Name to earn
Heart pronounces it
Conduct confirms it

Lament and moan
With a lump in my throat
Reduced to my last tear
Allow me a whimper
To weak to ulutate
Such is my state
Hoping for a sojourn
Long enough I've mourned

Painting with my tears
Strokes with my heart for years
Aches and pains it depicts
Still remains incomplete
Ray of sunshine
A place in the canvas
Comes and goes
Bereaving the darkness
Not to be sold
My life story told
Unfinished it will remain
Soul unfit to sketch
Now of the body bereft
How much more to go
Who will sign
At last at peace
After i cease
If i want a movie made
From my birth which brings death along
How will one write a screenplay
The story remains the same

Time to part
Matter of the heart
Near yet far
Destiny decided by past
Curved away for what
Played your part
Now time to depart
Didn't work out
Who might have thought
With a heavy heart
More burden stocked
Unable to restart
Not a car its the heart

Permanence is temporary
Nothing stays the way it came
We age and go up in flames
Some of our loved ones best us to the game

We loose a father a teacher or a friend
Whom we unconditionally loved Till the end
We feel for their loss
Space they occupied gone for a toss

Vacuum created makes us feel shallow
Have to undergo the sorrow
Feeling can never be borrowed
No interest rate yet To locate

Lasting for a limited period
Often confused with lasting
Any therapy again temporary
Only the meaning can be found in the dictionary

Only thing permanent
Is our looking for the solution
All along within us
Beam of the thoughts torch focused anywhere except

Searching in the dark
Naturally missing the mark
Awareness of lacking awareness
Train of Mourning in a never ending tunnel

Light is not at the other end
Its at the end of our ignorance
The tunnel to is transitory
If knowledge lights sorrows leave you  free

Way to live
Cards given at birth
A new place this universe
Mother's womb no more the place

Time runs out then
Clock starts ticking when
In the cradle unable to recall
We have survived it after all

The shuffling starts
Each dealt a different card
Same card  game played by all
Match up or Give up winner take all

Some progress Some stagnate
Some still figuring what to play
Can't escape playing your card
Opting out not a choice

Upbringing Education Companionship
Lessons thought by parents
Pages of knowledge of events
Which card to pick apparently taught

A game of intelligence
But the house holds the pack
Pick out of 52
Outcome decides the life you pursue

Luck plays a part
Picking the card your choice
The pile to pick from decided by the dealer
Limits potential as options closing in further

A game of poker
Handed a couple
Placing bets hoping to double
Faith in play hoping the next 3 will be favorable

Not the only one
At the table counting
Hoping you got the best hand
And the rest wanting it beforehand

Still kept in the dark
3 more still wearing a mask
Increase or bail out difficult task
The house has decided your odds

Value given to every card
The ones you hold sets you apart
The 3 on the table turned
Decides whether you won or lost

The 2 you hold
You have no choice
The 3 on the table follow the path
Deciding to continue your decision
Figuring out the competition your intelligence

Figuring out the game
Takes an entire lifetime
Some ride the wave
Winning the stakes

Some never understand
When to show the hand
Everyone getting a royal flush
Where and what did i miss

Flush kind and  pair
House high or straight
Varities at the table
Some don't get em at all

Choice of Action
Nature's predetermination
Action also predetermined
Philosophers knowledge to extend

Lucky to take part
Whatever be the draw
Win loose or draw
Process matters never withdraw

Favorite movie star
Very civil all at par
Invisible ego plays below par
From the pages of an Elmore Leonard novel an all out war

Reason for conflict
Where none benefit
Cannot be confined in logic
Relationships broken very tragic

Discernment of the thought
Refinement in taste
Both questioned in haste
Scabbards thrown in all consuming rage

The first 3 moves of a Shindy
Mimics that of a Shogi
Predicted and stolen a march
Bruised esteem hanging for dear life

Below the belt attacks
No more fair or unfair
Trading insults at random
Depths delved never could fathom

Keeping the powder dry
Packing heat twisting the knife
Ace in the hole to go nuclear
Going for the jugular

Fallacy in desecrating the individual
Pulling out all stops and irrevenrential
No more his position or stance
Knees knocking together heart rate faster than horses at a race

Wanting someone eat out of you hand
Spilling your water only to slip on it
Freudian slip overshooting the mark
Hitting the target but missing the point

Movie Music or Sports
Political ideology or its flag bearer
Keep it in your heart else
Lifelong  bonds go on parole

Shouting at the top
Against something
That you would spend
A lifetime defending
If cause not so deep to
Die with your boots on
Hear the other opinion and simply Walk On

Everyday is a different day
Alive and fortune to say
Reason for existence
Never a constant
Situations are divergent
Unconnected contrasting
People are different adaptions
From their own core foundation
Stars form their own constellation
We can only admire their imagination
Only addition is the baggage
We have picked up
Thoughts and Feelings the currency paid
By our Hearts and minds proportional to what they weigh
For the excess baggage they carry
And dumped upon them daily
The word experience comes in handy
Makes us world weary
Ideally should make us lighter
Make the travel easier
From experience comes wisdom
Which makes our lives shine brighter
Misjudged the looper spun by law of nature
Lost the path and going in circles
We are our own architect of all the obstacles
The Universe refreshes itself
When the needles meet at 12
We burden ourselves with 24 more on us

Budget almost none
Shot in the Bangkok sun
Shadows seen
Second take a luxury
Not afforded produced in penury
Drug smuggling with a front
Ice factory workers bearing the brunt
Cousins killed and hero seeking revenge
Nothing new in the storyline
Plot twists seen time and again
Cantonese the language spoken
Which even half of China did not understand
Locations to a minimum
Ice factory and it's office
Workers quarters and the Boss palace
Claustrophobic environment
A river side only exception
A motion picture filmed in the conditions
A newcomer cast
Wanting his career to last
Wants to create a new genre
Lacking all the pomp and splendor
Hong Kong cinema
Costume dramas
Sword fights and flying above trees
The only fare that audience pay to see
A child artist
Done 20 films in the past
Now the god of martial arts
Trying to get his philosophy across
Breathtaking stunts
Done for real
No compromise
Even though it's for the reel
Faster than light a physical marvel
Fists and Legs
Kicks and jumps
Never seen before
Left the audience wanting more
Always wondered in my heart
What makes Bruce Lee stand apart
Half a century since he died
6 year old kids know of him first
Is it the Fights?
Is it the Philosophy?
Is it the speed?
Is it the innocence?
Many have come later
Classics by many a maker
Same or different genre
Never close to the appeal of this Seer
God of Anti Bullying
Fights for the underdog
Takes a stance for the weak
Gives enormous strength to the weak
Many of this
Many a hero has done
What makes him special
I don't have the exact answer
Key to immortality
Handed to Bruce Lee
Chosen to be
Remembered till the universe is to be

The chords of the piano
Reaching a crescendo
Reminds me of Maurice Jarre's theme
From Doctor Zhivago
Souls have merged
Thoughts and feelings submerged
In the Love filling the air
No need for despair
The trees and flowers
The one we are picking for each other
Both will pick the same
Nature of likes your theme
Adding it's splendor and esteem
Be together forever
Even death don't do you part
Never say goodbye cause you ain't apart
Backs to each other
Instruments increasing the tempo
Rhythm section providing the beats
Cue your hearts beating in synchrony
Creating a new symphony
If the bard had seen this image
He would have written a homage
Mozart would have scored the refrain

Traveling on the train
Window seat the only aim
The sound of the wheels on the tracks
Interrupted by the melody of the Horn fading in and out
Non existent echo echoing for a few seconds more
Concentration back to the background score
Of the wheels on the rails
Stations and buildings
Mountains and nothingness
Passing them just observing
Screeching halt or another train on par
Different notes in sink with the existing tune
Trip taken between troubles
One left at home
Another waiting alone
Interlude offering multitude
Solutions to problems unfold
Chimes of the station clock
Blaring of the buzzer
Whistle from the guard
Train begins its gallop
Wobbly in its travel
Meditative as it unravels
Untying the brains shackles
Fragile before travel
Now back on the saddle
Nothing has changed
Mystery don't bother to unravel
Deep turns as the tracks curve
Head stuck out to see the engine swerves
Quick count of the carriages follows
Images painted forever our minds become Picassos
Rails build ties
Every wanderer on his way
To its tune his body sways
The lullaby closing the eyes
Dreams ready to begin its play

Sliding into the position
Lying mouth open and bare
Into my dentists well laid out chair
Nervous wreck in utter despair
What am I afraid of
If i have internalised death
Is it a fearful disease
Outcome of my habits i indulged with ease
Is it the guilt that i wrongly assumed
That I'm exempt from anything I consume
Not for me it won't
May be will be proved wrong
Am i scared of the " I told you so"
Deserve it because I  continued to do so
Mind a racing track
Questions raised and Answered
Thoughts overtaking each other
All on a collusion course
Giving meaning to the
Doctors every expression and
Utterance
The only way to overcome the fear
Undergo the experience that gives the fear

Birth and Death
Death a constant
Is birth a variable
The soul never dies
Often told to us
Reborn in another form
Is that the norm?
Mystery lies in the inbetween
The movie genre signifies
As the protagonist identifies
The audience verifies
In life we are our audience
Viewership from within
Have we solved the missing piece
In order to find the elusive peace
Is there going to be sequel
are we already in the sequel
Is the Almighty planning a trilogy
Another opportunity to solve the ambuiguity
Soul entering the body
A matter of faith
Rational mind seeks proof
Loopholes in logic doesn't make an Athiest
The simply lack  the connect using Science as a fail safe route
If the entire play out is a fantasy
Is fantasy the reality
Or the realisation that it is a fantasy
Throw light on the real reality

Weary traveller
Life's route the great leveller
Leading everywhere and nowhere
Looking for the last stop
Ironically hoping not my turn
Baggage carried by the thoughts
Placed in the centre of the heart
Only baggage we hope to drop off
Accumulated as years go by
Past longer and future just shy
Scars inside tells the story why
Reality real or reality a Mirage
If i knew the answer i wouldn't be writing this at all

Today the day
My father passed away
11 years to the date
Who can fight fate

Crosses my thoughts
Day after day
Lives in my heart
Night and Day

Your love for me
Till you feel hungry
Don't fool yourself
He used to tell me

Man of great talents
Communication almost absent
Man of few words
Heart the size of the universe

Very highly educated
Accounting and Taxation he meditated
Glorious corporate career
Used his skills till his end got near

Epitome of integrity
Naturally helping tendency
Value systems consistency
Known for his decency

Truth and God
His mates in his path
Never slipped once
Haven't met any since

Talent to invest
When to divest
Master in his own class
Shared his knowledge with all

Terrific strike rate
Would make fund managers irate
Percentage of growth in top gear
Beat the index year on year

Watched 4 movies a week
No other pleasure did he seek
Matinee idols on the screen
Watching them his only dream

Knew about the movies
Matching his subjects of study
Encyclopedia of cinema
An ocean to learn from

Investment banker or Movie critique
Easily shined in them too as a career
Not because he' was my father
His actions speak loud and clear

Calm disposition his personality
Empathy greatest quality
Loosing temper waste of energy
Long walks his tool to gain clarity

Never a negative word spoken
Nothing good to say don't say it
Conduct and Class predominant
Never expressed much emotion

House buzzing with family
Joint and extended
Treated all equally
Showed them Hollywood fares regularly

Alone or a Group
Fledging career or Rock Bottom
In the midst Calm or Chaos
Balance proved the man he was

Was he a Saint i often wonder
Or carried away because he's my father
A saint is a different dimension
But he was an excellent human being

His negatives i recall
Stored in my memory wall
Waves that leave behind salt water
Even in that we wet our feet with fun and laughter
Greatest strength not in these
Ray of light and a gentle cool breeze
They added to his inner core
Meaning of life and ways  of the world
Intuition and experience he optimally combined both

He loved Paul Newman
His birthday God chose as his death day
How else will you say
When the last movie he watched was HOMBRE

Things are tough
Be thankful they aren't tougher
Alive to narrate it
Proof that it's not any rougher

Not enough money
Pennies from heaven real not funny
Health requiring prescription
Needing permanent attention

Think of sub human conditions
Death due to malnutrition
Another Thank you for health
Now thanked along with Wealth

Abandoned at birth
Starving to death
State of New borns
You ain't one
Your initials stand proof for all


Rough patches in relationships
Heart going through hardships
Communication breakdown
Body mind soul in lockdown

Friendship in tatters
Size of the Ego matters
Not in police custody
Let alone being in solitary

Thank you for my family
Stood behind solidly
Deserted and alone
Thank God you are not alone


Return to normalcy certain
Nature your maturity testing to ascertain
Thank you for putting me through
In Loneliness i sought company in Thank You

Tennis and politics
Either side of the net
Vaccination the ball
Played upon by all
Who is right
Who is wrong
Its my life and my command
Each won one
Score stood at deuce
More opinions infused
Tennis fans now confused
Taking any side of the net
Can make you a hero villain or a comedian
Conspiracy theories aces served
Can't do much but wait your turn
Health and Visa joined the play
Making it 4 in the fray
Really need the courage
To take up a side
But also remember
Sometimes even in war it is braver not to die

What happened before
What happens after
Who did the research
From where the data search
If i were a stock
Show my career graph
The highs and lows
And the grade point averages
Predict my percentile
I'm from the pile
Draw a report
Right from birth
Quarterly Analysis and beyond
Do i carry a face value too
Tell my parents who are eager
If i am a buy sell or hold
If I'm to be shorted on
Don't be afraid come on

Accomplishments and Achievements
Degrees and Positions
Deemed by the universe
That you are a successful person

These give a sense of satisfaction
For all we need is ego glorification
Time up for redemption
Null and void the reason for existence

Be happy but never satisfied
Perversely fulfilling the converse
Happiness elusive inspite of search
Place to search needs research

Gratitude not a branch of joy
But the very  seed that springs the tree
There for all of us to see
Plays Houdini on us missing the piece

A thank you
For all we got
For all that God forgot
Or so we thought

Simplicity is the key
Two words expressing how we feel
Fake it and make it till its real
Thank you with gratitude seal the deal

The clothes on the table
Each one carries a fable
Tinkers memories from the cradle
Worn themselves thin like a candle

Associated with events memorable
Tailored  for a family wedding
Gifted by a friend with bonding
From a loved one with longing

Torn and worn
Still part of our wardrobe
Not mere Pieces of cloth
Stitching together all our thoughts

Preserve them forever
Wanting the thoughts to linger
Gateway to an ocean of nostalgia
Our collection of Sartorial memoribillia

Anyway to skip a day
A week without a Sunday
The Beatles wanted one more
Wish it were one less

Every second seems an hour
Lockdown  bring the pressure
Mind racing with thoughts
Day still looks like a time warp

Within the 4 walls
Outside patrolling squads
Most welcome day of the week
Not a soul on the street



Alone with the phone
Keep the mind in sanity zone
Government taking precautions
No change in the outcome of the situation

Social duty for all
To be in solitary
Way to stop the spread
Of the virus we dread

Downside declared as death
A fact not a matter of faith
Carrier a title in the chain
Most avoidable terrain

Never ending affair
Causing universal despair
Blame game fair and square
A cross all have to bear

Infected pays the price
Reason let the conscience decide
Guilt of spreading begets Malice
Mindless  conduct rendering breathless