It is not just a gesture
It is not only parting of lips
If there is sunshine in the heart
Smile reflects the purity
Smile touches the deepest chord
It can transform everyone around
Always smile to greet everyone
Mend the fences with smile
Bridge the differences with a smile
We are travelers on this planet
Not our permanent destination
At least leave a smile behind you
For life becomes much more worthwhile
Just Smile…

The skin will wrinkle
The bones will become brittle
Age will take over one day
Consuming the human formation
Voice will tremble
And diminish the ability to speak
With weak eyes, vision will be blurry
Losing the near and dear ones
Left alone without any company
There comes a moment of epiphany
That only love is eternal in this universe
We will all perish someday or the other
But the heart wrapped in love is infinite
There are not boundaries and demarcations
No restrictions to love

Words are irrelevant
Silence is the language
Try deciphering it
A powerhouse of information
No need to play with words
And get entangled
Words have interpretations of many
The language of silence is one-to-one
There is no language barrier
Become a global citizen and win many hearts
Just, if you can learn the language of silence
A heart to heart talk is in the offing, which stays forever…

~

And I fall…down

As the sunset of life reaches out to me
in marmalade swirls…orange sherbet dreams
I follow in loose footsteps,
not sure of the bridges I cross
or those burned in the process

Alone I stumble on braided pebbles,
scattered on this serpentine path,
feeding my mind with thoughts
Peering back on what was,
crying when your picture finds me

Dark tangerine tints line the sky now
for the day…this day…my life
shall soon disappear beyond the horizon
Fading to a tiny speck,
hiding in plain sight where no one can see…or care

Finality sings its sad melody
in fractured bar chords and minor notes
As I again find you invading my soul,
reaching down from my heart,
the place you still reside

And I whisper I am sorry…for the pain
Collections of hurt I did not realize I carried
beneath shiny bows and pretty paper
Sending you away from me…my precious gift,
the loss of all that was me…you

Quicker my steps drive
to that straight line illusion beckoning
Darker still as minutes pass
for I know this end is mine alone
as the moon crests the sea and I fall…down