Mirage it was, I ran behind it.
Locked the logic and reasoning,
yielded to my stupid heart!
However much I tried to reach, it alluded.
But, I could see it beckoning.
As I ran towards it,
it was running away from me.
Finally, it just vanished,
No more visible!

I agree it was a mirage,
But, why did I fail to see it before?
Next time, I will lock my heart!

~©Bharathi Devi

I can say I will climb the highest mountain for you,
But the highest I have climbed may be my neighborhood tree!
I can sing I will swim the deepest ocean with you,
But I always swam at the shallow end of the pool!
I can say I will run a marathon with you,
But, since I always walked, I may continue doing that.
I can say every day I will write a poem for you,
But, the last poem I wrote backfired magnificently.
So, all I can say is if I started it, and if you want it,
I will carry it forward as far as a human like me could…

©Bharathi Devi

If only you had given me a chance…

My dear friend, if I can call you so,
If only you had told me what was on your mind,
On that day when we talked and walked,
If only you had told me what bothered you…

From my side, I have always
respected and admired you, for who
you are and what you have achieved.
I know I can be a pain in the neck!  

But, may be my memory is fading,
I do not recall doing anything to hurt you,
Neither do I recall you asking me to get lost!

I would have appreciated the honesty,
Which I am sure you have in plenty.
It hurts me more not to know than
being treated like such a sorry *******!

But if it was something that I could have clarified,
In my own clumsy way; I am just wondering...
How would it have evolved?
If only you had given me a chance…

©Bharathi Devi

This is the year of Pluto-Charon love story!
Separated by an unfortunate event,
they have been gravitating around each other,
by the barycenter for billions of years!
What a love story that is!

After insulting Pluto, we humans
were curious as to how he was taking it!
Travelling billions of miles for more than nine years,
we could not believe what we saw!

Happy in his own region, Kuiper Belt,
Pluto is more handsome than we imagined!
And, more romantic than we could fathom!
He, with his Charon,  and their four children,
are all together, will be that way,
for billion more years to come!

©Bharathi Devi

Hey, when you sent that LinkedIn invite
I was impressed by your profile and
couldn’t resist but respond.

Then we became Facebook friends and
Took our friendship to the next level.
Texting and Tweeting brought our hearts closer,
Romance became inevitable.

Now that you are so close,
I cannot but envy your smartphone.
I wish I am that screen that
You still stare at, even when
we are with each other.

I wish we could go back to the olden days,
When the lovers lost themselves
In each other’s eyes, in each other’s arms,
Sitting on the beach facing the sky
Merging with the colors of the
Setting sun, with no mode of modern
Communication, but our five senses.

© Bharathi Devi

Once I fell in love, deeply, madly, and crazily!
My head told my heart, I had lost my senses!
And, I agreed, for once, with my head!
I thought the other party also had the same feelings!


But, then every time I approached,
I was bounced out of the court, like volleyball!
My head kept on sending alarms,
But my heart would not listen!

May be I was wrong! Perhaps I was a fool
to believe that others also feel as intensely as I do;
For I noticed that I was being ignored and
Avoided, mostly during all this!

Slowly, my heart realized that after all
there was some truth in what my head was saying!
It recognized that it was not a ball,
Rather, a temple of love that needs cherishing!

Perhaps I was wrong! Perhaps it was just my imagination!
For if there was love, we would have come very closer!
Whatever it was, while it may still be crazy,
My heart refuses to be a ball anymore!

©Bharathi Devi

Dissecting the phrase 'stealing the heart'...
Not sure who coined it first,
but it sounds like accusing the other
for our own weakness!
Don't you see?

Sometimes, we fall for someone,
deeply and madly,
when the other party is not an accomplice!
They may not have a clue or
they may want to avoid us like plague!

But, then every action of theirs
gets filtered by our own interpretation,
and we let the **** of our affection grow
and eradicate anything that is ours;
even when the other party did nothing wrong.

Finally, at some point in time,
when the fog lifts and we realize
we are buried deep under our own doing,
we blame the other as
stealing our heart! Really?

©Bharathi Devi