Woke up today
Thank God for that
Had a good night's sleep
Indebted for allowing that
Had my cup of coffee
More than contended

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



A life to lead only awareness to
To be
Thank you Thank you Thank you

Completes the theme
Pages to remember
Delivered proper
Audience understanding clear
One step near of becoming an Actor

Lessons at workshops
Drama schools and universities
Intern at Playhouses
Understudy for the Leads
Years in the wings
Waiting for the doors to open
In real time life ticks on
Food for the family
Purely on the ability
To do work of quality
In regularity
The probability
Known only by the Almighty

How the camera captures
Not in the hands of the actors
Cameras own decision making process
It disowns the player
then no use of acting prowess
One more layer
For a successful acting career

Self Realisation
Easier in comparison
Success in the show business
Holy grail with Christs grace
Easier to trace
Than the name and fame that begets an Actors face

I achieved overnight
Superstardom
After 30 years of struggle
To become an actor

Providing a Stage for the Actor
Who unleashes his alter ego playing the character
Make up on his face a mask
Juxtaposing real and unreal a difficult task
If world is the theatre staging plays
Tickets not needed to watch this drama
Theater seems more real atleast the make up is on
Actor facing the dichotomy is infact not acting when curtain is up

Unfulfilled dreams
No one an exception
Every human has some
Things they wanted to do
But never done

Reasons plenty
Usually blamed on Destiny
Convert to reality
Create the opportunity

Life led and lessons learnt
Burdens carried faced the brunt
Problems faced upfront
None left to surmount


Idea of expectancy
Lifes longevity
Some clarity
Based on fraility


Doctors prescribe
More or less correct
Time left on earth
Breaths till last breath

Time and tide
Wait for none
You no exception
Ready for the action

Things not materialized
Thought process conceptualized
From infancy till now
Dont get Into the how

Unrrealised gist
Prepare a list
To do before death
No one knows after that

Follow with zest
Complete tasks ahead
Fulfill before death
Before body under wreath

Lighten the soul
Before its journey behold
Last days on planet
Complete them rather
Than forego it

Kick the bucket metaphor
Your soul had left bedside
Nothing left beside
Things not done and unsaid

Follow your heart
Led by your thought
Fulfill the wish
The soul incomplete with
Prepare your Bucket List

Brother had graduated
With distinction
Easily obtained
Kindergarten Admission

Already done
Started good
At another school
With A thatched roof


Father Rector
Vaguely remember.
English Language Skills
Written and spoken
Was the intention
For a Convent Education

The first school
Just off the ground
Hop skip and jump
From home

Virtue in Difficulty
Motto enforced with authority
Back of beyond
The oven a bear to clean
The school of hard knocks
14 years
Hornets Nest
4 year kid
Put to test

Every year
A cross to bear
Every teacher
A nightmare

Atmosphere Anxious
Psychosis cheek by jowl with
Feel the heat
Skip a beat
Learn it all
Before you are 3 feet tall

Every Monday
Cloud on the Horizon
Tuesday
Better left unsaid
Wednesday
Between a Rock and a Hard Place
Thursdays
Hammer and anvil
Fridays
Thank god it is

Discipline and Education
Was the Motivation
Real or Mask
I'm yet to Unmask

Boys Ranked
Made to feel inferior
Fail a subject
Humiliate Parent  
For kid not being perfect
Boys branded
Humiliation  indidnity
Insult to injury
Nuremberg trials shorter
Silently stand there
Standard Convent fare

Provocative Attire
By the teacher
Didn't make matters better
Students imbibed earlier
Than required by law of nature
Sexuality brazen
Ahead of the curve
Gradation of *******
Affected permanently
Mental stability
View of women
Totally in contradiction
Damaged forever
Lasted till wedlock
Wedlock did not last

No room for sth
Beyond the pale
A square peg in a round hole
Puritanism produced swivel eyed zealots
Pursued their mania with little sense of proportion

Higher classes
No better
Tight leash
Grip never eased
Termination threatened
Repeat a year warned

Having to endure
Performance preasure
Nervous breakdown
Not uncommon
Common in classes
Standard 10 and Twelwe
Every day a living hell

Spare the rod
Spoil the child
Idiom for conduct
In this school invented

Untidy Attire
Consequences dire
Late to school
Flatten your soul
Talk in class
Break you like glass
Tarnished shoe
Wrist turns blue
Study material
Not in order
No escaping the clobber
Time at Alcatraz
A Concert of Jazz
Holidays a parole
Graduation day
Jackrabbit Parole
Diesel ride
No more required

Fourteen years
Buck Rogers time
Rigorous Relentless
Souls broken
With precision

Served *** Beef
At the Cuckoos Nest
Doing the Dutch
Break Fluids
Considered once
Watch the wind or
Bark at the Moon
World weary
Experience equals
That of a
Vietnam Vet
Faced many a bullet
But we at the convent
Had to endure
Nurse Ratched

Made the approach
Trusting the coach
Teaching the game
From its inception
The teachers devotion
For the game passion
Sets the process rolling
Day by day improving

Progress made
Coaches efforts
Match play next step
First step of mix up

Victory not a feat
Defeat should not repeat
More expected
Results disappointed

A year in the sport
A sea change seen
Attitude for all
Become a know it all

Kids start complaining
Parents encouraging
In every issue interfering
Know how acquired suddenly claiming

Exchanging information
With parents from
Another institution
Instilled wrong notion
About the Coaches intention

Bad mouthing coaches
Degrading their skill
Spreading this talk
Behind the back

Cause of defeat
Squarely on the Academy
Single out a coach
Make him a scapegoat

With purpose and ire
Spread like wild fire
Intention to smear
On the line
The coaches career

Acumen acquired
Coach not required
Now a winner
Coach made to
Look like a joker

Next level play
In another academy lay
Leave the very school
Lacking knowledge tools
A bunch of fools



Kids like this plenty
Forget their journey
Now a burden to carry
Never felt sorry

Ends up finally
Kids leave the Academy
Every aspect unhappy
Coach and facility
Washing in public
***** laundry

Coaching professionally
Done with integrity
True to duty
Need not worry

Walk on
Next aspirant
Seek your attention
Give him guidance
Shower him with affection
Stay true to the profession
Try to make him a champion
Without fear or favor
Benefits not consider
To create a player
The job akin
To the Supreme Maker

Status Update
Dawn or Dusk
First to check
No exception
Obsession Or Compulsion
Cancerous or benign
Status is mine
Mystery or Suspense
No history to prepence
Probe failed
Mystery it's not
2 playing the part
Duet in Stage
Audience none
Suspense none
Basic instinct
Very succinct
Subtle for Stalking
A hint in order
Bigger picture
Role playing
***** or innocent
Pawn in the game
Diabolical Paradoxical
Thrill of an affair
No trail left
Telepathic Romance
Unsaid emotions
Rules laid clear
Exchanges none
Motive unclear
******* with my head
Alibi none
Transparent in action
Just an addiction
Enjoying the attention
While it lasts
Have a blast
Allegorical
Meanings multiple
Fall for the wrong woman
Faulkner novel it's not
Sensuality Sexuality in the air
As being  stalked
Exit roads blocked
Reciprocal in nature
Guess the future
Status a mirror
Reflects my inner
Likes and dislikes
Inside and out
Silence Maddening
Awake and changing
To prove my theory right
Vibrations and Energy
One of Synergy
Playing games
Suspension of disbelief
Reads like a novel
How do I let it roll
Mind takes its toll
Guessing game
No chequered flag
Answer in time
Give it a name
WhatsApp Flame

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


THE HEART WANTS WHAT IT WANTS

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
Absence of Harmony
Melancholy in Sanctity

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

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

My father was a Jewish carpenter
Everytime I see that quote I simmer
My thoughts and my heart open the gates
Of my eyes which brings tears
Heaven is not where you reside
Wherever you reside is heaven
On the Cross for all to see
Do you need my RSVP
Your Last supper immortalized
By a great painter
Will I be the 14th
Ill die to live to tell humanity
That I had dinner and dessert
With the son of Mary
Who taken upon himself to carry
My sins and everyone else.'s
Overwhelmed by the invitation
Even if it is a poem
It is nothing but salvation

John Wayne synonym
For the Western
Embodied the Cowboy
Walk and delivery
Cought the audience's fancy
Silent movies to the 70s
Remained at the top of his popularity
Textbook definition for global Superstardom
None yet to fill his shoes in filmdom
Liked by generations
Loved his potrayals
Won an oscar for True Grit
Top ten lists his name will fit

Gary Cooper Superstar
Do Gooder Chivalrous hero
Testament for fame proved
No actor has been loved more
A very strong fan base his core
Conscience of America
Always played characters
Only with positive shades
Very carefully built image
Lasted for many decades
Sargent York and High Noon
Brought 2 Oscars home

Clark Gable The King
Box office No 1 Towering over everyone
Sold out cinema halls across cultures and countries
His popularity limitless knew no boundaries
Gone With the Wind
His name cast permanently
Till time ends
First Film to win the top 5 Oscar's
It Happened One Night was one of his Starrers
Great career from the Silent movies
Ended after 4 decades with The Misfits

Cary Grant Everyone wants to be
So do I replied he
Style Suave Smooth
The way he naturally moved
Dialogues delivered at a speed
That was relished and tried to be copied
Ideal for Comedy and Mystery
Drama War and Adventure
Global audience flocked to the theater
4 decade career
Mid Atlantic accent
Made him different

Randolph Scott  Chamber films
Cult star known for his Westerns
Produced his own films
Minimalistic films in its settings
Solid and Taut his films
Unemotive style evolved
Always on the right side of the law
Do gooder chivalrous hero
International Superstar whose films always gave the studios an overflow

Errol Flynn Swashbuckling Flynn at his dashing best
Handsome and action oriented
Costume dramas created his niche
Historical events brought to life
Westerns War and Biographies
All part of his Filmography
Career spanning decades
None dated till today can relate

Humphrey Bogart Film Noir
Acted in bit parts
several years passed
The Petrified Forest gave the break
He still had to wait
John Huston and The Maltese Falcon
Took him to Superstardom
Well deserved and retained
Terrific dialogue Delivery
Moviegoers in a frenzy
Cigarette dangling from his lips
Gun tucked away in his hips
African Queen in 1951
Took the Acting crown his only one

Robert Taylor The man with the perfect features
Starred  Opposite Greta Garbo
Typical Hollywood Hero
Ventured into edgy roles
Westerns War Romance
Met with great success
Costume Dramas like Quo Vadis and Ivanhoe
The fans pleaded for more
Golden Globes named him
World Film Favorite
That's how his fans till this day rate

Spencer Tracy First to win back to back Academy awards
Natural portrayal of characters
One of his  primary acting nuances
Sizzling Chemistry with Katherine Hepburn
9 Super hit movies on the run
A great example of the Actor   & Star combination
One of the greatest Movie Stars of all time Without hesitation

James Stewart everyman's Hollywood man
Drawl in Delivery and High sense of Morality
The main reason for his soaring popularity
7 decade in the movies and a well deserved Oscar
A part of his glorious well defined career
Credited with reviving the Westerns
One of many achievements

Meek and Weak
Fearful of everything
That I see
Afraid of People Events and even Ghosts
Never lived my life
Frightening self carried myself
Deep at the core
Stuck in a dead end
Nowhere to turn
Met my saviour in Jeet Kune do
The philosophy founded by Bruce Lee

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

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

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

Life's blur was becoming clearer
Therapeutic and Zen like
Very few remanants   of my former self
All i surrender to the great Saviour Bruce Lee

Stone cold night
Jacket Sporting
Strolling physically
Sprinting Mentally

Nicotine urge
Smoking a Cigar
Vapors up in the air
Swimming the skies
Postcard photograph
Analyzing my career graph

Boulders on the path
Ditches to avoid
Puddles to cross
Dogs barking across
Headlights beaming
Eyelids reacting

Traffic Congestion
Emotional Wilderness
Bringing back the mind
From its travel in time
Trying to stay in the now
Figuring out how

Spotted a Stranger
Walking the same pace
Distanced by space
Soon came face to face

The pathways cleared
Street seemed even
Noise ceased
Vision restored
People disappeared
As the Stranger Appeared

He in my way
And I in his
Blocking the other
Mirrored my movements
Getting past sole thought
Seemed like a time warp

Stuck in a circle
Us in the middle
Wished him
As manners warrant
Reciprocal gestures
Lent my hand
Firm shake
Silent surrounding
Set me wondering

Greeted him politely
Treated him respectfully
Spoke with him kindly
There seemed no Hurry

Could be
Coming From
Possibility Infinity
Capable of accomplishment
Could become friend
Give my Dreams a language
Deep Sleep occurence
Wide Awake recurrence

I could possess
Attributes of the Stranger
Dream In Daylight
Heart on the Right side

I could walk around
The problems that surround
Till I met the person
Opposite in direction

Was he in my path
Was I in his
If I was him
Would have I treated me thus

Rooted on the ground
Wide as the horizon
Fact hard to accept
Simple and direct

Stalling my movement
His presence on the way
Outside has no say
In every which way

Inside instigates
Slows progress
Inside is I
Who stood in my own way

Stranger  outsider
Seemed familiar
Realized  similar
Dawned Insider
Thought Alter
Felt Finally
None other

Mutually blocking
The Stranger and i
I was the Stranger
Stranger  was i

Those who don't know
That they are walking in the darkness
Will never seek the light
Said the immortal Bruce Lee
As a part of his Jeet Kune Do philosophy
Which he created as a hybrid from many
All knowledge leads to self knowledge
All the obstacles that confront us outside
Answers the real seeker seeks inside
Simplicity is the key to brilliance
The shortest distance between two points us a straight line
Freedom from conditioning
Brought about by flexibility
In order to face a hurricane
Be like the Bamboo that gives way
Only to come back to its position
Rather than an old tree that's rigid but gets uprooted
Be ready not tensed
Not thinking yet not dreaming yet
Ready for whatever might come
The middle path chosen
Be in harmony with the world
Nothing apart from us in our control
Use the path of least resistance
Give you a lot of confidence
Life is changing process
Following a fixed pattern when life is not the same
Will not help find answers to the game
Be yourself express yourself
Do not project an image of yourself
Honest expression is a path to self realisation

Looking ahead
Looking behind
Road ahead
Memories behind
Aware and Prefe3sent
Wallow and Past
Adapt on the highwa y
Rigid on the dead end
Sub concious clean
Optimism and Faith
Sub conscious *****
Low esteem and self pity

Traveling on the road
Never traveled before
No one after
Creation so Unique
There is no set technique

Flexibility Is the key
Keeps mind empty
Walk with expectations
Sure blow to emotions

Mind edgy
Heart heavy
Pathways empty
Nothing to carry

Walk the journey
No choice but to
Running away from the journey
Turns out to be the journey
What an irony
Life is what happens
When we are busy planning it

End not in sight
No one to guide
Those past the end
Did not any message send

Road with beginning
Road with end
Without either
Always in the middle
Answer for these
Makes life a struggle

One Birth to Rebirth
Nowhere to the Grave
Womb to Nowhere
Nowhere to Nowhere
Where from and Where to
Are we aware of One side or two
None of the two too

Equality its quality
Time gives us sanity
Straddling as friend and enemy
Brings in its duality

Real or a concept
Know or transcend
Philosophers have the answer
Only it seems to matter

Fills many life's
Empties the rest
Static for some
Memories for most

Sets standards
Punchality its first
Defines humans
Communicates to Animals

Timely describes right
Untimely the wrong
Timing explores both
Time simply the watch

Good and Bad time
Essence of life
Time up
Essence of its end

Time doesnt end
It stops its  existence
Only With reference
Plays its role to perfection

Time used as a balm
Non believer in God
Atheists and Rationalists
Non believer in time
Not existant  as its backed by science

Hope and faith
Subdidaries of time
Signifying a change
Not specifying a frame

Time unable to replace
Time replaces time
Existing in every tick
Seconds needle brings with it

Is it good or bad
Brings in routine
Free or busy
Time the answer
Delivers correctly

Time up
End time
Time not ending
End of the line

Timeless in time
Immortality signified
Very few managed
To live after time

Greatest quality
Medicinal beauty
Heals the heart
Thank you to the Clock

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

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

Cannot be purchased or Sold
But can be saved and wasted
Time does time
It knows when
Yours is up
Till then it is a friend
Telling us if we are early or late
Asleep or Awake
It gives us company
It makes you feel lonely
And offers its company
Lest you feel you have a friend
Gives us a dimension
Of everything done
We plan based on it
We accept or reject
On what it takes
Is with you
Giving its undivided attention
On sleepless nights
Telling us to wait till sunshine
Does Its duty
Without being asked
Doesn't fast forward itself
Greatest challenge it has issued
To anyone capable of rewinding it
Theoretically its possible
They keep saying
Time travel is fantasy
Attatched to the harsh reality
Go back in time
When time by itself
Cannot go back in time
Universe Depending on its accuracy
If it were to take a break
To visit an earlier actuality
Devoid of its presence
Will end in catastrophy
Dual existence in timelines
Calculations made by advance science
Time alone heals
World's greatest Psychiatrist
Reduces the trauma caused by pain and hurt
We pass through it gradually
Find ourselves healed eventually
Time warp retro good old days
Indicate its been a pleasant ride
Or else we won't miss the days
Might have been because of people or events
But we always say
We had a good time
Its only a witness
It takes the blame when things go Cross
Events occurring causing us immense sense of loss
Events don't get the blame
Time takes upon itself
As it knows it is the medicine as well
And gets credit for the good as well
Good Bad Ugly and Finally
Time carries us with it constantly
Memory of being lively or ordinary or melancholy
Nothing lasts forever
This too shall pass
Are great philosophies
Time as Its protagonist
Timeless in time
Time is timeless
Time and time again
Time waits for no one
Time is a creation of man
Time is a concept
Conceptual discovery
Carries life and death
Decisions with precision
Expands itself from Seconds which can be further broken down
To decades centuries eras and ages
Its all the same Time
Time doesn't have a twin
To share its burden
Expands and Contracts
For the purpose of human calculations
Fully aware that beyond
The Calculator and a Physics paper
Mankind is Its puppet
Having  no other indicator

Smell the roses
See the sunrise
Early morning rain dampening the roads
But nature's occasional addition heightening our souls
Glad to be awake
Let the day roll by
Many things at stake
Don't be surprised if
Tomorrow's list they do not make
Ambition priority people
Changes with age
When the handles meet at 12
Thank God for making the day swell
A meal and a nap
Evening shade ready to map
Leg up and crossed
View through your boots
Mother nature brings to end
One more day less to tend
Paradoxical the day ends
Only to return
Not as the same
Youthful it remains
What a shame
If one can't enjoy the game
Same day differs everyday
Takes away one more day
The toll you pay
For passing the day away
Sway with life s ballet
Array and disarray
Thers no replay
Pay your dues and wait for the day
Only remember you have no say

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

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

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

Restless waters in the Ocean
wanting incessant activity
Befriended the Wind
Away from its source
Decibel levels increasing
Crashing into the sands
Only to go back

Sunset by  definition a beauty
Having done its duty
Duty Free for all to benefit
Sinking into the Sea
Not to breathe
A sigh of relief
To remove the darkness
providing it rays which bring the best
to the eagerly awaiting  rest

Land to stand
which helps us understand
The beauty of Nature
Synchrony and Symphony
Kindling all our senses
Bringing total harmony

The alert elements
Brought  by the vision
By its sheer presence
Tasting self realisation

The search ends here
Evening shade bringing its glamour
image understood in its real meaning
Arrived already a state of zen

Exertion to create
A creation
Either by talent or repetition
Skill and imagination
Overlaying in tandem
For profession or recreation
Has a destiny written
Before or after
I'm in no position
To answer the question
If the art carries the artist s fortune
Or doom as determined
The art is not at fault
Just as we are born
Knowing only life
It searches to  display
Pride not in itself
But its master
Inspite of the travails
Using his
Seeds of imagination
Birthed on canvas
Record or film
Even the creator
By virtue of his power
Could write its kismet
But needed its artisan
To use his wizardry
Who's life  too he can sequence
But lacked his creative essence
Creating a competition
To his occupation
Willing to sacrifice it
He lacks the nuance
Of the artistic brilliance
World and his creation
Need in abundance
Foregoing his monopoly
His imagination after all lacked beauty
A novice who needed
The virtuoso s genius
To make this world a better place

An unreal reality
Picture perfect scenery
Quest for company
Tragic and illusionary
Sequential and Dreamy
Wake up and smell the coffee

Seeking the origin
The path travelled within
Water of the roads
Reflecting the lamps glow
Guiding light on a dark night
Drop the ego and  walk alone


Water on the roads
Reflecting the moon
Two souls hand in hand
Hearts reflecting the souls
Moonlight from the sky and its image below
Show the path to the one soul which was two before

A traveller without a destination
Wandering triggered by imagination
Sleep the break coming with hesitation
Even in sleep Dream continuing the relay not
stopping at any station

Quest on for rest
Trying its best
Making every request
Solution none to suggest

Weary wanderer fighting hard
Wanting to stop heavily scarred
Emotional content not yet got
Full Speed ahead hoping atlest the heart stops

If you're sinking
How does the depth matter
If you trust your self
How does destiny matter
A price tag for everything
What is the value of human life
Once dead cremated or buried
What happens next ?

He lives your sorrows and Joys
Like it were it his own
He is the light of your life
And the light to your darkness
He's the might to your meekness
Shadow to your body
Echo to your mind
He inspires you to be what
You want to express yourself to be
He's the harmonica to your voice
The side car to your bike
Interchange positions as you like
With you for life

The personality traits
Character determines fate
Considered to be not in one's control
An adverse result delivered is fate ' s protocol

Fate can punch a hole
Make one go backwards
Can even determine life's end
Or when not to end

In a battle of wits
Fate versus the Will
Fate always wins
Knows the result gives it the advantage

Fate finds its match
In a honest man
Fate cannot fight truth
Even if fate"s reasons are also true.

Honesty defines character
Being brutally so what ever the matter
Destiny cannot weave it's magic wand
The honest mans honesty already has

A life of ruthless honesty
Weakness the power of destiny
Destiny a brought forward balance sheet
Now needs an additional colomn to fill

Tomorrow s reality depends
On today s honesty
Lacking in it
Your fate writen in it

Outcome not even in thought
Answer when asked
No interpretation required
Yours is the final word

Fears that breed
On the dishonesty
Stop feeding it
Watch it die immediately


An illusion created
Truth will lead to problems
The illusion is the problem.
Truth can never be an illusion

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

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

The High and the Mighty
Tough and Brawny
The Slow and the dead
Bereft inert and wasted
Two sides of the same coin.
Happy the haughty
Unleashes the bully,
deeming the other worthless.
Tearing the soul brutal.
Play the game of the top dog and underdog.
Both are clowns,neither realising the futility of  this wasted exercise.
Pin the underdog on his physical gesticulation and mental indisposition.
Alone or in a group all are of a similar type.
Lynch the fall guy .
Stooge, scapegoat , victim and prey he becomes
To the vanity he succumbs.
Technique pretty as picnic.
Humour at his fraility,
Sock his security.
Convey substance right,
Lock him in tight.
Prepense a Wrong,
Twist his arm.
Snap and he reacts
He imitates your act
It's all too simple now,
Deride him unfair and square.
He has his cross to bear.
All the while sit in a chair
Wax eloquently about calibre and compare.
He stands there  sensibilities destroyed.
Wasting and Raising the role  ,
Haul over the Coals,
Oh boy has he killed your Soul ?
The Mighty is a bully,
Always righteous.
The Weak is Cunning,
Uses all the  weapons  he can comprehend.
Shunning Pretending Obeying and even Clowning.
The Bully manipulates the  weak for control, consciously.
The fragile also wants control , manipulating himself unconsciously.
This conflict seldom ends.
Till the feeble attains strength to defend.
Defend he will once he is able to transcend,
That the Mighty pedestal he had given to is living on a pretense.
The Mighty is acting out of a deep inner lacking.
Education none. Occupation None.
Achievements None.
Courteous he is to no one
Covering his incapacity,
He tries to be Judge and Jury.
Never once ******* himself
For deep inside he has no sense of self.
Lives in a dream ,  
Destroying condemning  others dreams.
Lives the life of the Mighty,
As long as others don't see reality.
That being his only strength.
Till his time is up and fate beckons,
The world has no choice but to reckon
The irony lies in the destiny.
World is not a fair place,
For Mighty he is not .
The Frail realises too late
But can never fight fate

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

There is no next
Right after death
Head to head
Between life and death
Most one sided score
That we can get
The the world's
Oldest  known enemies
Cannot be called
A rivalry at all
Life has to win one
To call it a contest
Life after death
Spiritual and occult matters
Death after life
Cemeteries and graveyards
Ready to receive
Results known beforehand
Man improvises with time
Has the intelligence to know
But none yet to solve
No coach yet
To coach life
In the match
To beat death
Undeath the death
Neutralize its power
Illusion to make
It look like a tough fight
Life is an illusion
Taught to us
A consolation prize
Lest we give up the fight

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

Keep living in  the now
Now also temporary
Indicates life's fallacy
Keeps becoming the past
As the clock ticks past
Yesterday only a memory
No more a reality
Next second doesn't exist
Come to the realisation
That is pure imagination
Created out of extrapolation
Memory and imagination
Have no meaningful explanation
Life unique as it unfolds
Drawing conclusions cheating ourselves two-fold
Present never present
Questions the theme of existence
Not a licence to act at will
But a reminder that nothing stands still
Is everything a dream
Or a reflection of the I
Outside the realm of our thinking
Every seeker tries solving
Based on what he's experiencing
Answers vary nothing surprising
Uniqueness in everything is the only common human expression

The house always wins
Anti gambling hymn
Never bigger than the game
Whatever be your fame

Pandemic declaring war
Vaccines  to heal the scar
United on the defensive
But polarized on the offensive

A couple of shots
To stem the rot
Not so simple after all
Blame game next on call

Section of the population
Questioning the effects of the vaccination
Living in a free world
They have the right to be heard

Growing in strength in numbers
Resistance groups still outnumbered
Bottom line is Pharma company figures
Castigated by society willing to endure

Conspiracy theories by the dozen
From their point has logic and reason
My body my life their slogan
Fall in line or get accused of treason

Organizations and Governments
Pharma companies getting their endorsements
Bugles sounded Civil war emerging
Like minded groups on the battle front aligning

Follow the rules
Harmony will endure
Its about others
Back up there are the death figures

Have no right
In this universal fight
Holding on tight
Last option is might

Better safe than sorry
Cannot cause others to worry
Rally to finding an ally
Not at the cost of my body

Herd immunity
One more theory
Who will ratify its authenticity
At a dead end in a blind alley

How much longer
Now the talk of booster
Corporations to collect the *****
Not at the cost of my body

Who is right
Whats going on
When did we get divided
When all of us were affected

Origin of the virus
Which caused this crisis
Pious and righteous
Was caused to sell the antivirus

Take the required medicines
Let's find peace within
Mankind's future never looked so thin
No better day than today let's begin

Two sides of a coin
No right or wrong
No winner or loser here
Who s name will the trophy bear

Polarized society
Total ambiguity
Political ideology
Pandemic ploy

If might is right
So be it
David vs Goliath
Says it need not be it

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

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

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

Rain in the ocean
Moon in the forest
what does it do at best
food when hungry
Friendship in distress
Is what brings out your best

Unable to forget
Never left my thoughts
In the first place
Concentrated thought focussing on you
Or even while meandering
Wanders around you
Easiest solution is to tell you
I tell myself everytime
The next time is the last time
I going to return with my feelings
Heart heavy and hurting
Standing before you
My heart racing
Memory the last thing
That is working
Want to make
An impression on you
Every second wasted
Your presence erases my thought process
When will I get my act together
Or die a loner
Not a crime to like a woman
Am i feeling guilty
Do i feel unworthy
Or am i afraid of rejection
Veil of shyness
To protect myself
From knowing your true emotion
Guessing all the time
Not knowing what you are thinking
Hoping for a miracle
If it were to happen
It would have already happened
It hasnt flown smoothly
Which if something you have to get
Always does
The more the lack of clarity
The longer it takes to reach a finality
Wouldn't even want to let myself wander in those woods
Prayer is for cowards
In my case only ratifies it
God not your messenger
Glowing in all directions
Your heart reflecting every second
Let me leave it to destiny
If it is to be so be it
If it is not to be
Add one more Atheist
Easiest to blame
God for the same
For he decides fate
Of he is fate

Function of Dysfunction
Error in Judgement
Emotion or Intellect
Makes us Select
Lacking in disguise
We choose
Wrong people
To Celebrate

Getting it backwards
Priorities outward
Unfair rewarded
People wrongly invested

Close attention paid
People thought obnoxious
For no reason dislike
Tells the tale
Of our Spiritual State

Never to do
With other person
Judgement comes
From Within
Choose Wrongly
Blame it on Destiny

Despise the good
Honor the wrong
Lack of clarity
Cause of Anxiety

Cognitive analysis
Clear the biases
Empirical evidence
Shows Prudence
Application gives solution

Error in judgment
Once the reason
Fooled again
Have yourself
To blame

Laws of Attraction
Right Vibration
Sensible Synergy
Emmitted Energy

Doctrine of Depravity
Attracts Arrogance and Deceit
Misplaced trust
Blame yourself

Attract the right
Dependable with trust
Fool me once
shame on you
Fool me twice
No more wise

Let them in again
It no more benign
Choose Wrong Mate
Dont blame fate

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

Waiting with the rest
Nervousness at it's best
Awaiting the test
Clueless about the result


Sir name called
Didn't know their protocol
Walked to the Counter feeling tall
Came out feeling small

Lasted a few  minutes
Fired questions on many topics
The tone of the questioning
I knew she wasn't interested in issuing

The shock of the rejection
Contrary to my expectation
Killed my motivation
Post graduation remained just a notion

It's a matter of time
Before I secure mine
Second chance provided
Will not get rejected


A week later
A different Visa officer
Had spoken to the earlier
Response very similar

Boxed into a corner
Crossroads my career
Knockout punch delivered
Didn't get up before the countdown ended

Doors closed for America
Twice rejected my Visa
Longest night of my life
Yet to see the rays of daylight

Half a decade later
Thought my chances were better
Tried again with vigour
Interview lasted a few seconds longer

Shivering and sweating
Had driven myself into a frenzy
Interviewed by a lady officer
Addressed her in the opposite gender

Questioning all familiar
Trained another visa officer
Made him stand near her
Made me an example of a looser

Waited for my reply
Turned to him and explained why
A candidate for rejection
Stood there like a clown

Rejected 4 times
America remains a dream
Chances to visit even as a tourist
Even the gods cannot do the trick

First to decide
To visit the United States
Family and friends
Everyone has visited my turn awaited

Asked my father
No one wiser
He had no answer
Hopes closed forever

Not one day has passed
Without thinking of the visa
Remains my biggest lacking
Everyone but I seem to go
Why not me I keep wondeting

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

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