You keep your glass
Near the bedside
It has milk
You get up for cookies
An empty tummy..

You see the fridge empty
Only eggs smile at you
The spelled out magnets are distracting
Making it easy to get cosy and easier
I can see you in the pale moon
You are hungry...

You fry an omelette
Nursing your stomach
The eggs have found their place
On the tray
No speck of doubt
Reminds you of your dead hour
Or the day when the rain fell
You look outside the rain pelts
The window calls to you to fly away
To bed

I might be strange
My dreams seem strange
It takes familiar things
To calm me down
Yet, all of these frivolous things
Feel
Strange
A political poem on the front page
A love poem in my inbox
Seem familiar, yet
Never make it
Like a ship in darkness
Very strange

Scraping red dust from porch
She sank into tears
The soil was sullen and ploughed
The time was right for joining the army

He left his home and went down south
Time is good to us, he assured her
Write a letter to me everyday, my love
He got away from her ornery look

She reminds herself, he is alive
The rifle's jammed and no one's behind
The gun that will not fire
For her, it is good that he is back

He left with another woman
She joined the front lines
As she was left no choice
Neither did she have a voice

They pleaded stay at your earthen home
Harvest the wheat and feed
Your lonely mouths
It was a doubt that carried her away
She never came back

The fire was shot around
The line was drawn
The time is good
She never bore another son

If you listen to the humdrum of water
Slow paddle of boats on the mire
You will notice the langurous breeze
Coalesce with the humidity
The bumbling flies and flying bees
Ferry the nectar of a thousand trees
In all this noise
You can hear the Amazon sing

It as easy to
Fall in love
As it is to lose a craving

Poems are like enemies
Once you hate them
You cannot stand them
Let them grow on you
As they will offer some perspective
Despite, it being different
Than what you know

I know my love is happy
If you sit with me, it's true
Albeit, our neverending journey
Will be complete when I am with you

I met her at a bus station
I thought could impress her with quotations
A book of poems and that was all
A poem doesn't have to say much
I express that I was bewildered
Our love wasn't hindered
It was like summer, open and free
Like the skies right before evening
I pressed her to be my best friend
She said to friendship their is no end
She knows there is no beginning without it
What's the difference
If we are madly in love

Let's disappear
Your words were so clear
Let the echoes
Travel through the night

When you meet me with another
I cannot resist a look
These are echoes
Traveling through the night

Your thoughts were her
Once familiar, now strange
Let's make our escape
With the echoes of the night

Your face with criss cross lines
The hands that held me by strings
Now see what the echo brings
Through the night

The first time
I laid eyes on that shy iris
It was my heart that burst
Now that we meet for the last one
My heart is buried
Your eyes have become dangerous

Find someone with those legs
Stand up and move forward
Keep your heart strong
My sweet Iris

These people meet so effortlessly
When will I make contact
With somebody
The universe sends signs
I am the only one it denies
Now I have an opportunity
To bring my ideas to light
How will I leave the dark
I need a place in this city

I want your lips close
To mine
Yet, I want to give you space
Everyone needs their time
Soon when the time is right
I will utter something beautiful
Not love songs
But, how I am closer
To kissing
When I am not near you

Yet, your kiss is on my mind

She is a preacher, a lover
Partly practical, practically dreamy
Partly truth, partly fiction
A walking contradiction
She walks as she hovers
Her feet are on earth
She is actually ethereal
A walking dream
I've never been to 52nd street
If you know me
I am what a cold shower is to a hot steamy bath
A wilting flower to a rose
At least I will never touch you
Because I may get hurt
Because I am cold as dust
The stores I go to raise the money
For a good ***** hotdog
Just so I can eat some ****
I am not that cunning
I could be down for dialogue
My mouth is sewn shut
As your ash turns to a ghost

Each night is another adventure
An unapologetic adventure
I still stare at the others
They seem so real
Just like every fairy, ****, queen
All of them have stories
My bed is lifeless like my wheels of fire
A car roamed the streets..
I don't even drive these days
I just wipe the cumulus clouds
Forever and ever
Till next day becomes a dream
I spend late nights with you
I have met a genius..
Who counts the nights and stars
And even the nights are better now
Reality climbs into every night

The best way
To express yourself
Is by praying for many

Magicians are interesting
They can conjure
And trick someone
They are similar to God
In some ways
They are as powerful
Because they can trick the mind into believing
Like faith and religion

To concoct a poem
You need the sanguine of an infant
And the sweat of an adult
Good luck finding these

There was a heart
That needed aid
Kings love the queens, the sad end for him
He died with a frowning crown

The truth is fire
The lies and water burn out my ire
You say things that aren't forgettable
The untruths I forget
As you look so cute
Being uncouth and all
My dead legs were fit in ripped denim
The pockets were hanging out
I said we should hang out
You lit a smoke and lay yet again
As I prowled that face of yours
It is so fair and truthful at first
I realize that lies aren't bad
The truth is just ugly
As it takes us all and engulfs
I didn't want yours
Neither do I care
About "true love"
I know it "waits"

I love you
I didn't even see the door
I seemed to have missed the flower
That was sitting sad and true

If I asked you
When will we pray
You answer
As my heart breaks

My sky would fall
Rain would gather through troughs
As I brave windy storms
You have been brave enough

I couldn't see the robin on the swing
Oblivious of the cage it's in
It still sings

Sages speak wise words
They flow like a breath
Though my veins, unstirred
As the years go by in a death
My heart grows and I look for answers
I still ask myself where do I tread

This page of lyric speaks to me
It has passed through my doubts
Resounding through echoes of thee
It is more sterner than my mouth
Bit by bit, it guides me amidst the trees
My pen knows not what it has found

After my dance with death's spirit
My beautiful poem cries and wails
I yearn for an end not merit
This is my song and picture, not a tale
The paths show some light and the forest splits
The rest of the poem disappears in the hail

I may have forgotten the lines
If you shower me with praise
The song of the forests dissipates with time
Yet, I remember the road and its precarious ways
Knowing this I know the answers will rhyme
As I find a maze of questions, once again

Sages have spoke wise words to me
They flow like invisible ink
Through my veins and my world
As the years go by, like grapes turning to ethereal wines
When my heart grows fonder
I sit and think a little about our surreal time
And write a secret poem, timidly
That has passed through ages
Like that invisible print and fabric of time
From me to you and sweet as eglantine and ageless still
Bit by bit as my love turns to malady
My pen loses it's strength and aptitude
My pallid hands clench on the last glimpse of eternity
My penmanship as the Earth cries
Of your simpler times 'twixt with mine
You are simply my Achilles' heel, my depth and picture
It seems as time goes by
The rest of the poem disappears
Like those forgotten beauties and lies
If you light a match underneath the papier
You will find my abstract love suddenly appears under those lines
As invisible ink flows like a sultry tide, true as fire and ice

A gaze from crystalline eyes
Is a worth a million mines
If only I could find her in the places
I go to to find romance
Instead I find diamonds and rust

You are a dream
That I spend my life
Sleeping on
I hope to wake up
And find you
Sleep comes easy then

I remember
The day when we became
"friends"
Now we are enemies

Many things can be considered beautiful
A song that dances in some
A poet that sings of better
A dancer that writes a lyric
Because it is meant to be

Well, I wake up
To the morning with dogs
Around my socks
Your mom is breaking the window locks

To let out the monkey from the zoo
In the afternoon
They are replacing it with a parrot that talks

So it doesn't fly out of here too
Come into my house
Ask for a flaming hot pie
The kitchen will delight the animals
You ask,"Who else lives here too?"

You gotta enrich yourself
Inept or no good
If the food tastes good
You need to eat without a soup spoon
Gather your hands and shuffle
As you ruffle your wrists with nothing to prove

What's the time, my man?
They tell us that a fire
Is enough of a truth
How about I light a cigarette
It's the time to die, easy
Can you feed them
Or you think you'll stay in your mobile

Will you still eat your brown rice and seaweed?

I looked into your eyes
Of gold
For a second chance
Like I kept digging

But, it turned into looking for a silver lining
Your heart had turned cold
The skies were I had to look

Searching for grey skies
I was bewildered by your rain
It drenched me and told me
Tears aren't enough

It was only two days
I called you
Asking you where are your friends
They were in the fields
Playing in the heart of mountains
Now they chase the racing rebels
Insurmountable task isn't it?
Try to come down from your golden pedestal
I just don't buy the numbers
This is how a orchard burns
This is how a sad shore buries the reeds
All of it to keep the truth in a square jar
For a square second

Have you been knee deep
In war
Muddied clothes and all
A matchstick can light
As long you are alright
This is all you need to know

Have you seen blood
Or the red of brain
Turn inside out like a hood
The military will give you perspective
You have to find the good
For the hour, that's all you need to know

Have you seen the rain
Gurgitate bodies like a river of dead
The delta is rife with flesh and guts
"It is just like yesterday."
The soldiers scream
That's all you need to know

It seems like yesterday
I saw the river of dreams
Turn into a battlefield
Producing only nightmares
No hope or calm
That's all you need to know

As I carve you and blacken your face
The page will lose beauty
As soon as I add colour to your cheeks
Rosier than rubies

All along the zoo station
There sits a girl in leopard prints
Her hamstring aches
As adumbrated headlines are in the prints
Thellenistic books lie as the library sits silent
Librace wears his socks with his gold chain
Like a train runs on the tracks and carries Jesse James
Soon, the outlaws will outlive the sheriff's pigpen
This girl has been here for a night cap
Her books fall from her shoulder
Like her hair
A handsome fellow arrives
And sweeps her off her feet
She has never been to the circus
And pulled the strings

Hello, everyone
I am writing
I am sure that you have written too

Soon, the government will ask for our poems
When they forget that the medical reports
Are too difficult to read
When they realize it is too late, our poem will live

The words of your love
Fly away like doves
I doubt the universe
Will write a book and demonstrate circles
You laugh like circling butterflies
When the sun goes down
Your laughter is the only miracle
In the night, you sleep and demons depart
As the angels remind you, "I want you a lot."
And remember my dreams
Where I synced with yours'
Your nature is like an azure stream flowing through my dark forest

You had your shot
At your dreams
It is impossible now
The stars are too far away

The dandelions leave
As the sun that will not understand
You wait for the night to pass
Everyday

The stars are too small
Messes up my mind
When I clear my head
I lose the ones shooting down to come closer

You wrote me poems
Easy as the seas
When I read them the tears would follow
Your lines and my breaths
They mingled and turned my cheeks rouge
Your heart must be blue
Like the night sky
Such a deep hue comes when the love was true
My lines and your voice once followed

Now we sit
And search for a clue
In the stars
Pointing out the mistakes we made

Please please me
Stay as the waves steer away
The oceans turn to the horizon
Even God says that water isn't infinite
It is the beautiful iridescent nature of such epicure
Isn't it wonderful
That I can look at you
And say please please me
You need not remember
Just follow the shoreline
Where the boat rests on calmness
As a soothing sifting of sands speak to us

My lover is an artist
She won't look back
Her experience has told her stories
She looks at people in white and black

Her words can the strangers away
As her friends are put to peace
She can turn night into daytime
Just like that
Bring the light out of black
But, she chooses her colors wisely as her facts

The stars turn into bright streetlights
When she walks by
The moon plays a symphony just for her smile
The sun is already in her eyes
The night looks in them for some life
Or some mode of surprise
That you just won't find

My lover speaks like silence
Neither argues nor judges
As she sleeps in the skies

I called captain Ahab
He told us to forget the whale
We told him to understand
If he was to drop the sails
Or we might as well belong in jail

The years turned to centuries
The jails were dead
As the Gods looked everywhere
They found me hidden under a chair
I said I was praying for death instead

Captain Ahab sat in the courthouse
The judge asked me why he didn't listen
I let out a laugh and said he does
They said you can't speak
You have to listen first

The streets were open
Captain Ahab sat next to me
The glass was filled too soon
The bartender said the car was here for free
He told me finish your drink, first then flee

The captain asked what was in it
It was empty
Isn't everyone full of themselves
He told me that everybody is empty
I told him because everyone acts the same, probably

I left breezin'

I rushed into the sea
When I spotted some land
The tough sailors asked me to stop
I told them to wait and stand
Soon, I realized we were on a sinking boat
Someone had pulled the plug hole underneath
The captain told us to save ourselves and hold
They left me hanging from the trees, as they rowed away from me

The crowds cheered for us
As we made I back and forth
Turns out there was a hole again
The laughter faded as the water poured in
When the slaves jumped out from inside and swam again
The people left for their homes, hurriedly
The captain told us bring some buckets
And away, away the shipmates swam away

The banks called as I made it back home
Asking if I had money to consume
They wanted to see me
As I hadn't paid the loan
I wrote them a letter as a plea and said no
They wrote me one and asked me if I had a plan
I send one back and it said "None."
As I fled across the country
They caught me half-way with bags in my hand

Apparitions are like beautiful flowers
That wilt in the
Presence of others
They wane when they see negativity
Blossoming daringly
And ephemeral and transient, eventually

Love is an open door
As a movie once said
But, to me love can mean
Many things which are
Tossed photographs, crumpled petals, voice notes, forgotten evenings of petrichor
Sometimes it is waiting at a locked door
That you find true love
The rest that comes later
Turns to nostalgia

Crystal eyebeams showered down
The mountaintops sailed and gleam
Above the clouds

The years passed like grains of sand
The ruin of ancient lands turned to dust
The streets of paradise are now past

I hold a bit of heaven in my palm of wildflowers
When I unclench my fist, the heavens just fade away
They shall run helter skelter, hither tither

Tied to a jet black cliff
A bird fashions on my scars
As my next ship passes

Tied under the Gates of Eden
The Gods have no place for us
Only where the vulture circles is a home

You shouldn't have to
Buy time
To buy someone's love

Feelings cannot be distributed
As right or wrong
Only when you are in love
Do they form such distinction

The inside of my mind
Is a bad neighborhood
That's why I have
Interesting stories to tell

Your dreams were mine
It had fairies and paternal Gods
A touch of starlight was the magic
The rainbows made circles
I was in love with a dream
When we were over
I realized I never had a lover
You had just wasted my time

I will never be yours
You are too extraordinary
The drunken politician weeps
The saviours are fast asleep

The ocean looks just like you
You are kind
You are highly spirited
But, it doesn't matter

Because I am too ordinary
Maybe, we are opposites
But, we don't belong to one another
Without me, you are just living an ordinary life

I haven't been in love
Being in love
Means forever
She wanted something else
I respected that
The pain stays forever
You said you were in love
Those were your words not mine