That which gives fragrance...

where does the fragrance go
when it rots...

Is my being...

an ecstatic sobriety
or
a sober drunkenness...

I wonder...

Don't create
Friends
or
Enemies...

You'll get
caught up
in your
own creation...

Learn to
remain in
solitude
with everything
around you*...

Awaken
witness the dream...

Awaken
witness the waking

Just witness...

Sadness, Pain
is temporary,
always  passes away...

Joy, Happiness
is temporary,
always passes away...

Kindness
is permanent,
people always
remember
an act of kindness...

There is no smoke
without fire...

Why does the worst
smoke spew when
the fire is put out*...

Silence is not keeping quiet
because you have nothing
to say...

Silence is having a lot
to say but no desire
to speak...

A mirror
constantly
in the state
of not knowing.
It only
Reflects
from the
outside...

Pure awareness
constantly
in the state
of knowing.
It reflects
Itself
In
Itself*...

When I set outward
I use the mirror
for an external reflection.
The mirror only shows
what I am willing to reveal.
Neither approval nor disapproval.

When I turn inward
my soul, my real mirror,
it does not see,
it sees through...
My past, present and future.
Nothing to hide
yet no content to discuss.
A mirror that
does not reflect.
A mirror that
is not my reflection
in time and space.
A mirror that is
my pilgrimage
to the Divine...

In depth
there is
fear and insecurity...

Therefore
people prefer

The shallow
Tried and tested...

Trust and Mistrust
Are both based
On rationalization
Of facts.

Many masks
Many names,
Misinterpreted
Misunderstood
By choice...

Mask over mask
Bereft of skin
Dare not reveal
What is underneath...

Masquerade
the only way
I dare
I live...

Rawness, nakedness
Unplastered walls.
Debris, wreckage,
where's my mask

Who are you,
who makes me wonder,
who makes me ponder.
Something I never asked before...

**Who am I

We all are...
Live dwelling places
of the
LORD

Prayer houses...
Made of stone

A single jasmine
can be my garland
A single grape
can be my vineyard.

You
are all I need.
You
add fragrance,
You
add sweetness
to my being.

You
are my one
in the many
Also
my many in
the one...

Memories of everyone
I have known...
Stay imprisioned
in my mind.

I do not remember,
having remembered You...

In not remembering
You
I set myself
free...

I look at my reflection
In the mirror.
I smile,
it smiles back.
I frown,
it returns the frown.
It simply imitates.
It is not me,
merely a witness...
Unthinking
Uninvolved
Unaffected
Unknowing

I observe the mind,
a traffic of thoughts.
I get involved
and realize
I am not the thought,
merely a witness...
Indifferent
Insignificant
Inactive
Invisible

Each season comes and goes, the beauty of it all

The storms of life, make me sit upright

The tears that are shed and they hold me tight

Takes my heart, makes me fight

As the moon rises, and wind blows long

I am tucked in bed, and I know just know...



There is a reason for every season

nothing everlasting, yet we cling

every storm, followed by a calm

the seed that breaks, only sprouts

the heart that breaks, germinates

But for you and me... No season, no reason...



The path I take, will always be the wind mills

Of time, but my heart can only take so much

As each time I am shoved from these trying times

I beg I cry, to let me find, let me die

but then I see words in the sky that show me

how my friends, how the world can be

and then there was you, a dear sweet friend

from across the world but so near to me ...



*Familiar paths I will not choose

neither follow nor will lead

People come, people go...

Maybe reason, maybe season

It's not per chance you and I met my friend

HE.. who knows what I need, before I know

Sent me a friend, so near, so dear

And Just a click away...

Nothing missing,
yet longing...

In brightness,
darkness  around...

Close to you,
yet alone...

Sleep laden eyes,
lie awake..

Everything I want,
yet nothing...

Time fleeting
a thought
of You
arises...

Breath fleeting
yearning to
hold You
arises...

Death pauses
I still
have to
make You
my life...

Alone
yet accompanied
by the sea
called humanity
I walk each day.

A step
closer to You.

My loved ones
nothing but
porcelain dolls,
to be
handled with care,
fragile
so easily broken...
i dare not hold
with trembling hands.

Am I your thought,
your desire,
a mantra you chant,
your creation
OR
a figment
of my
own imagination...

ALONE,
yet accompanied...

All renews itself
Yet all perishes...

You are my odd
against the rest of
the universe...

If you are in a hurry,
go ahead and don't
bother to wait for me.
My life still needs me.

Some untold stories,
an unsung song,
an incomplete conversation,
an unread book.
Some bridges to build
some to burn,
wounds to heal
fences to mend
relations to tend...

In my hurry
to catch up with you,
I breathlessly ran and
I left behind
so many moments,
breathtaking moments.
Let me catch up  
with them now,

I'll catch up
wtth you later...

Stop!!!
Trying to cram life into death.
It is inevitable...

The world is not a whirlpool.

Don't get ****** in.

It's cathartic for me
to tear a paper
into million bits
and offer it to the winds...

That's not why I gave you my heart.
Was it your catharsis...

In my search for YOU
I want to lose myself...

With you I have stopped
wondering what I am missing.
I know what I am missing.

If you love me,
love me now, not when
I've learned to live without you.

I am tired of being the only one
in this relationship.

I may have missed out on life's little things,
like winning an Oscar, a Grammy.
I sure have gained life's big things,
like being the best in the school play
and singing in the choir.

I never got the Nobel Prize ever,
So I settled for the big prizes instead.
Hugs from my friends and
that look from my crush.

Somehow never desired little things
money could buy - a Birkin or a Ferrari.
But cherished the big things
money could never buy,
the bag mum knit and
the high of riding on dad's shoulders.

I miss those days when games meant,
Hide and Seek, I spy, Blind man's buff, Cops and Robbers.
Games were not downloaded then.

I miss the times when trips meant
camping in the backyard.
Those days days when
the tooth fairy and Santa did visit me.

I would love to have one more day
to live that carefree life again...

Glad I know you
enough
to realize
we are strangers.

I've dreamed
so many dreams.
Each dream unique.

The same I
woke up each time.

Who is really I,
the one in the many
or the many in one...

I am not
a statue.

For you to put on a pedestal.

Waiting to break
the minute you drop me.

No one can prove
the presence or absence
of that which is
Omnipresent
yet does not exist.

Emancipation comes to mind
in *******...
The freedom to be bound
lies within...

Better
to finish
with people
who feel incomplete
with you...

Sometimes
I'm at a loss for words.

Sometimes
I feel what words cannot describe.

Either way
I revel in silence.

I am alone but
I am not lonely.*

I don't give you
a name,
for I am secure
being me.

The mind is my cage,
thoughts painted gold
pin me down.

Wide awake,
I pretend to sleep.
Who can awaken
this fool
Who
lies awake...

If the search for God
is a fantasy,
I would rather settle
for a fantasy...

DONT
answer the question always.

Question the answers to
KNOW

My pen is my heart
which doesn't think of you.
It thinks you dear.

My words are not poems
I write you dear.

My ink flows and I become You...

The same moon never reflected
In the same river...
TWICE.

His Will never takes you
Where His Grace doesn't protect...

Nowhere to go
Move within
The ocean drowned
In the drop
Within...

Real beauty lies in the action
not in the reaction.

1** ~   Figure out what you want,
                      learn to ask for it. Nobody
                      can read your mind.

2 ~    Nobody will love you the
                      way you imagined.

3 ~     Life does not come
                       with a reboot option.

4 ~     People are not covered
                       under manufacturer's warranty.

5 ~     Everything comes with a
                       shelf life, including
                       relationships.

6 ~    Nothing is permanent.
                       Nothing comes free.
                       Why pay for temporary
                        illusions.

7 ~      Even if they hate you.
                        At least they tried.

8 ~      You only live once
                         till you die once.

9 ~       Make happiness a
                         compulsion. Don't let
                         sorrow choose you.

10 ~    Sometimes lose everything.
                         You realize your worth.

Better to be alone with yourself
than with someone else...

I want to be there,

want to matter.

I'm resigning.