Saloni

Saloni Jul 2013

Come with me, oh, dear! Let me take you there,
This world isn’t good for you, it’s greedy and unfair,
Come with me to the place, where sun rises up high,
Enlightening the buried hopes in hearts of you and I,
Where greed has no place,
Where anger has no face,
Where clouds shower happiness, high up from the sky..

Come with me oh!dear, where nights are not dark,
Where moons shines up so bright that even dawn blush to embark,

Come with me to the place where there will be no more pain,
Just close your eyes and dream and don’t wake up again.

A sweet lullaby.
A sweet denunciation.

Saloni Apr 2013

Falling hard

I hope to collide, someday, sometime,
Hurriedly walking through corridor,
Books fallen,
papers scattered,
and my bag crashed to the floor,
And then “Sorry,” you’d say, my eyes up and now on you,
Falling,

Falling,

  Falling hard,

       And I hope, so do you…

Saloni Apr 2013

A touch of hope,

Before the lullaby ends, before the eyes are closed,
My fears ,staying inside, come out and lie disclosed,
My greatest trepidation blossoms in the dreams that I see,
So much it haunts sometimes, that I wish to flee.

"I am seated across the window, gazing at the stars,
Should I keep dreaming I can reach that far?"

Because I am not sure, if my dreams are real,
Maybe another minute obsession, another joke concealed?
If I choose to chase would it be a wrong way to go?
Narrower at every step? Misleading as I grow?

"I dream as I walk, I dream as I talk,
I am day dreaming  always, never looking at the clock.
Should I stop? Should it cease? Should it not supervene?
Should I forget and move on? Wipe it all clean?"

Shouldn’t I go and jump, If I am supposed to fall anyway?
I will break some bones but at least...freely falling through the way,
And who knows, I might not fall but instead  learn to fly,
And maybe that’s the reason, it should be worth a try,
After all broken bones can heal, and crippled body can work,
But crippled dreams, abandoned and forgotten, becomes a haunting smirk..

*"I am lying on earth, should I look at the sky?
Should I really ever think I could reach that high?
                  What’s the harm in thinking? Dream it anyway,
                  Because if you won’t, it won’t, if you do then it may…"

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Saloni Feb 2013

Back to school - Chapter 2 (first crush, first heart break)

"I had a crush"

You were cute, you were smart,
You were high up in my chart,
You smiled and you talked,
You were compelling me to stalk,
You used to sit beside me and made me feel so free,
Didn’t you know I had a crush only on thee!!

But you made me sick, with your ***** tricks,
When you used me after all,
But I didn’t care, and why should I?
You were not really an apple of my eye,
Seriously, you weren’t that wonderful guy.

But before that time, I had never changed my mind,
I always had a crush on you,
And I often pondered,
I often wondered,
If you had it on me too!

*

Prolonged stares, prolonged talks,
Those gifts and chocolate box,
And that sweetness, and that smile,
That uniqueness of your style,
The girl, you were busy trying to get through me……
Didn’t you know that I freaking knew...
what exactly you were planning to be!!

But I didn't mind,
Look, I was so kind,
After all, she was my only friend,
And I also knew,
That she hadn’t got…
Even a bit of crush on you.

Oh! then you never talked , and neither did I,
We both know the reason why,
Now, I don’t care whatever you do,
It has always been good to be without you.

After all, there is always one guy in a girl's life, who deserves to be theme of at least one of her poems, that is, if she is a poet. :)
Anyways, as the title suggests, its the poem that I wrote in school a couple of years ago. Again, it is based on a true story and it is little exaggerated.

Saloni Feb 2013

Back to school - Chapter 1

“The nerdish image”**

They say I am a nerd, they say I am a geek,
I shouldn’t care, I shouldn’t bother but I am done being meek…
I am sure that the nerds do not really bunk,
And in case they do, they most definitely don’t flunk.

I am wearing large specs,I am holding a fat book,
But it still doesn’t call for you to throw that look,
Don’t be judgmental, please don’t assume,
To me it’s so unfair, every time you presume.

I might look bookish, I can’t cat-walk,
I am reserved, I am shy, I do not really talk,
I am no fashionista, but my deepest concerns aren’t books,
brands, clothes, shoes, yes, I care about my looks,

okay,Call me a nerd, call me a geek,
I do not really care, won’t complain, won’t speak,
But behind my back, everything that you talk,
It still hurts sometimes, coz it sounds like a mock,
Good marks, good grades, oh! I want them always,
But they aren’t always mine, if you haven’t noticed, just in case,
“Calling me a nerd isn’t the real concern,
It’s the fact that I am not, and I wish I had been one.”

A tribute to my school life,
and regarding the poem - yes, it is based on a true story but its just a little exaggerated.

Saloni Jan 2013

Grieve no more, oh heart!

Sometimes I lay under the night, gaze upon a star,
Conceal a forgotten past, grieve upon a scar,
Some mistakes were made, not so cruel, not too intense,
But in arrogance and ignorance, that remain too huge to make a sense.

The footprints of those missteps, lay buried under time,
Too distant, too deep, unlikely to be exposed,
But what about the heart that stay frozen under guilt?
Will I recover? Will I forget? Will my shattered heart be rebuilt?

**“Grieve no more, oh heart!, don’t let yourself be burnt,
Some mistakes have to be made, some lessons have to be learnt,
Some decisions, some choices are meant to leave you contrite,
Because unless you know what’s wrong, how will you know what’s right?”

Life,as I see it.

Saloni Dec 2012

CHEERS TO THE DEMONS

Cheers to the race that doesn’t have a heart,
No reasons, no morals, no souls, no scruples,
But piles of lies, tons of deeds, all perfectly unabashed and splendidly aghast.

Cheers to their courage to walk unhesitantly in the crowd,
To stand with a stride and to converse with a pride,
And just in case their secrets revealed, to their dignified admittance clear and loud.

Cheers to their score that keep augmenting every day,
To their pleasures, to their amusement emerging from despair,
To their delight, to their bliss, to their ability to rejoice every time one cries in pain and dismay.

Cheers to their shamelessness, cheers to their sins,
Cheers to their disrespect for fellow human beings,
Cheers to the vanished humanity in their souls,
To the way their conscience has drifted in black hole,
And cheers to their skill of turning hearts into stones,
To their abhorring thoughts and to the way they never atone,
Cheers to the way, in this world, they sustain,
Cheers to those monsters, cheers to those beasts, cheers to those incredible demons again.