I choose resilience
over strength:
it holds me up better
and I'm made always consistent

Those who have conquered
    the most acute pain
    are immune to every adversity:
    life's most vital lesson they have learnt

This moves me so deeply:
   a flight of birds on wing
   across a clear blue sky
   at the first flush of morning

  or upon the in-setting
  of a soft tender evening
  as through my window, watching
  my poem in completing

  with the last lines impending  
  in beauty enriching -
  time I forget, lost in reverie
  with my heart in throbbing

as for my love I'm waiting-
hush, I'm wondering
where the birds are heading
and feeling they and I are in happiness-sharing

Be humble , in this
the world you will inherit

Every day is fresh air
if I don't reach out
my life would be wanting
in every way

Golden words
I've silently hidden
in my tender heart
yet to be spoken

in their appointed hour
I'll then be ready to utter
after the door of love is open
and I'll be your chosen lover

I must wake up
I've dreamt too long
last year's spring-roses
have all gone- the song

I should have sung
has been left fallow
love's door is shut-
and tomorrow

I'm not sure
whether my voice
would still hold
as with past joys

when life so bold was-
all wonder and splendour
has now fled, never to return
as I move on, a lonely drifter