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the divergence of roads
is an illusion
a myth perpetuated
by those who fear solitude
but one who has walked the lonely path
enjoyed all its sights, sounds and sceneries
rested in the shade of its motherly oaks
knows that at last
everything converges
every road, every fellow traveller
every other choice
meets at one
single brilliant point

- Vijayalakshmi Harish
   08.02.2013
  Copyright © Vijayalakshmi Harish,
I love how "cleaved" can mean both "split" and "linked". The word is its own opposite!
I've dipped my feet in the water of you but still the ocean remains
And when I look out as the moon pulls the tide I burrow my head and restrain

How can I swim if I do not know where your current will lead me to stay
But the wind in my hair and your salt on my skin keep asking me gently to say -

stay.
Someone help me, I feel insanity lurking
in the back of my mind, ominously looming.
It makes salient feelings that are disgusting
What's worse is that the help is not willing.

Yes, I call out to you, best friend.
But you are unable to understand.
I laugh. I wasn't expecting it in the end.
And yet this insanity is something I've to mend.

I also call out to you, man from afar.
But all you care about is inhaling tar.
Though I know that you, too, have similar scars,
I suppose the reason you can't help is because you're too far.

So here I am. Again. Alone.
This insanity has certainly taken it's toll.
I guess I'll remain in this dark, scary hole.
Never have I felt so far away from home.
I'm in between...........
   I am halfway between life and death.
       I listen to the voices of my family around me hoping and preying.
           Preying that I wake, that I wake up refreshed and healthy
I hear them sobbing at the sight of my closed eyes and want to wake.
   I want to wake up but my eyelids feel heavy and will not open.
I just want to open them long enough to tell them I was alright
but I was so tired at the same time.
I want to sleep and go to the quiet place in my dreams
the place with no worries and with happy faces.
My home has no walls to look upon
no roof to stave off wild beasts or tame the restless seas
no window glass, so clear my days to gaze
A soul to dwell in mystery
so soon my days to fly away
yet stand the oaks of long ago
watching children play

Morning wore a robe of clouded sun
rain washed the day away, til broke the sun again
hidden in a thicket brush sang a tiny bird
sweet songs to light the darkness
from this world
Walking down my road
Yellow lines under my feet
Rain on my skin
Down the line
Off the road
Sharp sand
Bleeding feet
Water washing
Sharp salt-stinging
Cold water
Knee deep
Obscure ocean
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