when in despair
you were the breath
for which i would come up for air

came closer by the years
but there will be this distance
Stopping me, is this yellow line

wish i could enter the shop
one whiff of the air
and it would encompass my heart
but it's the glass display
only from which i can watch

this is it, i'm at a loss
for this is the line
which i cannot cross

The numbers are racking up
People dropping like flies
Only this time it's every
survival movie come to life
the world is resetting
nature coming back to it's glory
the science guys are at it
making a cure and creating history
What do we have to do? asks the extrovert
Why don't you become like me, says the introvert
All this time the government was spending billions
To save lives and to stop this spread, make people stay home
Why do you pay for that with money
When you can pay with common sense

Some things i would love to forget among some regrets
Try to run away but alas, my mind's a steel cage
all these thoughts popping up like it's popcorn
and that is why the earphones are always in
awake at night because it's so hushed
so quiet that my own thoughts can be heard
not afraid of being alone in the dark, afraid of being alone with them
subconsciously there is no control, they are  running wild and rampant
i want to wake up but i am engulfed by that dream
Can't some noise wake me up? why can't someone drop a plate
I want to be woken up, otherwise there is no escape
It's so quiet in the night
that to get in,
even the sun tiptoes

Here like a tree I stand,
hope they see the shade I give,
Or be a river if I must,
till they hear me flow

Am I not seen?
I look down at my hands
Oh what plans do they have,
for this is just one wicked dance

The brightness of this star
is something they shall not know,
Being an invisible man,
I can just leave my footsteps in the snow.

The dew on the moist leaves,
The gleaming orange in the sky,
The tiny chirper on the branch,
would all be seen for the last time

cancer came knocking at the door,
asking for nothing but his eyes,
life from now on wouldn't be the same,
putting in the glass ones of size

He looked at his parents one last time,
capturing their young but smiling faces,

He would cherish those faces forever,
For they're immortal, against the stride of time
The capture of those smiles, now with him forever.
No matter how old they get, they'll forever remain young.

Risking everything this time
you gave up your personal life
You are scared, but so are your
kids waiting at home along with your wife
The mask is always on and never off
warmth of a hug is what you lack
with this pandemic youre having a stand-off
volunteer or not, we're proud you chose to stay back
Doctors flying in all over the country
it's not just the hippocratic oath, take note
but this is the common enemy
For humanity or peace? actually it's both
when will this nightmare end? said the person comfy at home
while you're out there among this virus and what not!
Don't worry it will get over, you'll get to enjoy it all
So much that if something's missing, you'll know what.

they say pain isn't good
it only brings harm
but then how would his poem glow?
if it wasn't there
who would bring out the depth, the meaning
hidden deep beneath
his song needs the lyrics
the lyrics to make me say
how does he know how i feel

Cheer up mate, come out of the blue
How can I? Every shadow I see reminds me of you
My memory eludes me wish I could say
Because even after 5 years, it feels like yesterday
All those memories, now a part of the past
If only I knew this time would be the last
Stop thinking about her I say in the mirror
But deep down I wish I could see her
Atleast the mason is true to his job
Where I can't even be true to myself.

Happiness can be found
in the most unusual of places
the kind which is short-lived
but giving a kick like wasabi no less

that millisecond in the air
while doing the cannonball
splashing the water all around
to walking in the park and having
that stroke of wind caress the hair

to having a smell draw you to the patisserie
and every spoonful is like heaven

This kind disappears as soon as it arrives
like the fizz in your cherry cola
finding it again can be easy
did you check your pockets?

Sit with them, laugh with them
enjoy with them, smile with them
you don't know what their mind's racing on
looking so calm
yet fighting a thousand battles within
the last person you expect
to disappear,
might lose the battle and even the war
for you might be the first one to
wake up tomorrow
and long to see them
just once, just once.

The roads, deserted
everything's come to a standstill
people are still leaving
leaving common sense at home
value for life? none
the only thing hitting the road
should be rays of the sun
new levels of disregard
it's my nails, i have to get them done
sitting thousands of miles away,
i clenched my fist

with consistency in play
the days remain unwaveringly same,
oh what stubbornness is this,
for it's just the letters that change

Here comes the end of the week
a time loved by the masses
it rushes through like a raging river
as if the sands are in broken hourglasses