I loved looking at what the mirror showed
I loved looking at the one you loved...
Now all I see is shattered glass and
and bits of me scattered  all around...

One such shard you embedded in my heart,
that's all I have to call my own.
Alive but dead I seem to all.
Pallbearers waiting to get done with the job.

Nothing to leave 'cause I gave you all,
my heart, my soul, my body, my all.
Selfish they say, look at this ***** factory,
but how can I give what is not mine to give.

You are my person, I've ceased to be.
You are my vision, I've ceased to see.
You are the silence, I've ceased to write.
You are everything I need and all I don't.

This parting gift , my heart holds dear,
saved for another heart to unbreak.
The glass shard mine to give,
take it now, before they throw it away.

They say sincerity pays

Yet

It never paid me a dime.

My little one
boils a kettle of emptiness
on her little toy stove.
Careful, I caution
don't burn yourself my dear.
She pours a cup of
Emptiness,
carefully without spilling any.

Ah delicious! I fondly say
as I sip the emptiness.
This is a game I play with her
and isn't it creative how  
she taught me to savour
Emptiness
Everyday.

The empty cup
the empty jar pours into
That's fullness...

Will I wake up and live
the dream I am dreaming
OR
Will I fall asleep and dream
the dream I am living...

Sometimes I wonder what is real
Your absence
Or presence...

I come knocking at my door
Nobody
Lives here anymore...

There is a time and place for
Everything
Everyone
NOWHERE.

Thorns given by you with love
can be my garden.

Friends are like parents
who hold us
when our steps falter.

Friends are like siblings
great to fight with
great to celebrate with.

Friends are like mirrors
they never let you
fool yourself.

Friends are like the weather
your personal sunshine
on a rainy day.

Friends are like make up
they always make you
look better.

Friends are like alcohol
they always
put you on a high.

CHEERS TO FRIENDSHIP...

Need to give, YOUR'S
I may not need to receive...

Each mirror shows you two faces
the real, the masked.

When you are empty
not only will you
quench the thirst of others
but also your own.

Tap the source of existence,
**OVERFLOW

Time makes us feel
cynical, critical.

People make us feel
neglected, unwanted.

Circumstances lead us to
wear masks and we
forget the person
we used to be.

Till an old friend
comes looking for
the friend they knew.
Bringing old memories
and reminding you
... Of you

Warmth of tears is like
Sunshine on a rainy day.

Nothing belongs
to you or me.

Teach me O Master
to live like a mirror
that
speaks not
conceives not
rejects not
contains not

Break all moulds
the ones I know not
especially ones I know.
Take away things
what I need not
especially ones I need.

*Nothing to lose
no life to cling to.
No doing, no undoing
You call, You consume
i wait to dissolve.

I would rather be empty
Than lead a shallow life.

With some people
A moment becomes
A lifetime...

With some people
A moment
Not found
In a lifetime...

Most wounds heal inspite of
Pain forever remains because of

Some things
never change
with time.
We seek
those things
as they
assure us
they will
be there
for us
when we
wake up
   Tomorrow

The sun, the moon, the sea, the sky,
                           *You

Credit me for your failure
Blame me for your success

Don't come to my wake
if you hear I am
having one.
If you come they will wonder
why I lay awake
at my wake
still looking for you.
Don't spoil the party please.

Don't come to the drop-off
or i may never take-off.
Please don't fool me again.
My friends await, my only friends
who accept me as I come
and even lick my wounds.

After the feast, my heart untouched
Battered and broken yet beating
for you.
Don't come to claim it please.

One day
the heart
just froze
and died...

And me
alive but
so dead...

Sometimes
we pay
a heavy price
when we
love someone.

Some
feelings
dime a dozen...

Attachment
100% discount...

Happiness arrives
tries to find room
in my house
but is only a guest
so must leave someday...

Sorrow arrives
and occupies the
room happiness vacated
but can live until
someone else comes knocking...

But YOU
will forever remain.
My substratum,
even when the house
exists no more
You, who I dare to call mine...

I have created
so many relationships
that
sometimes
I find...
No me
For myself...

No fence, no boundary
No gate, no door.
A grain of sand
Is all I am.

No name, no fame
No pain, no gain.
A grain of sand
Is all I am.

No copyright, no issue
No love, no hate.
A grain of sand
Is all I am.

If I allow
you to seep
in...

How am I
ever going to
get...

**CLOSURE

N O W H E R E

to go...

If I meant everything to you
why did I feel inadequate...

One day I will wake up
from this living dream
a prisoner of my thoughts.

One day I will dress up
in the finery of my shroud
as I leave these old rags behind.

Come in, raise a toast
friends waiting, six feet under
to scrape the last bits of me.

Come in as I set myself free,
look in the mirror and find me
I have a new way to be...

Time changes
Seasons change
Reasons change
People change...

                       But YOU
are neither my time, season, reason nor person.

      YOU
are that part of me
where I find myself...

No one can be YOU
in absence or presence.

Language...
An ingredient I use
everyday
in the meal
I make for You.

What can I serve today
I wonder...
Something new maybe.
Beyond the ingredients
that I know.
You become the ***
into which I pour
all of me.
Let us have
this soul curry.

Enjoy now...
It's the only way
you can outwit tomorrow.

Regret now...
It's the only way
you can forget tomorrow.

The rose wants to perfume
your hand.
You fear the thorns...

The rose says,
" the thorns are inside you,
   the perfume is inside me"

I am the only one
Asleep at my wake.

Lot of people love me
Because

You prove them all wrong
By loving me
In spite of...

Your name and your fame
will assault you.
Do not linger to ponder
who you are.

People and places that attract you
will evevtually destroy you,
piece by piece or
swallow you whole.

Or you will destroy
people and places that attract you,
with your indifference
or your boredom.

Where demons fear to tread
Why did you leave me there...

My longing needed a face
I particularly liked yours.

My thoughts needed nourishment
I chopped bits of you to chew on.

Hear me with your heart against mine
Taste me with  your mouth on mine

You are the ink that flows in my verse
You are more than ink, more than verse...

If you and i
are ever to meet
let us not meet
in the marketplace
or in our dreams.

Let us meet
where the whole world
is witness that
we never met
and still became us
or let us never
meet at all...

Often
I don't let
my demons in.

When
I do
we begin
where we left off
as old friends do.

Your lies
killing me
little more
than yesterday
little less
than tomorrow.

Tell me
the truth
that you
don't love
me now
maybe I
will live
a little
more today...

Each one in our life
is a part of the whole...

Love is when we find
the whole in one such part...

Talk so much
that nothing makes sense.

Be quiet,
Say nothing,
As nothing
makes sense.