May broken hearts be mended,
Broken dreams come true.

May the fractured human rapport,
be restored like t'was of yore.

May the poor and the needy,
Find means to prosper and grow

May the cheated and defrauded,
Get justice recompense their due.

May the lonely ones in prisons,
Chained for causes untrue,
Be freed of unjust detention,
Their honor restored too.

The oppressed tribal Indians,
whose home this nation's too,
Uplifted and empowered
Their right to live ensured.

The battered Indian woman,
Bearing violation cruel
Of a patriarchal nation,
Liberated at last be soon.

Humane, magnanimous people
Valuing lives above faiths and notions.
Indians together as one brethren,
Trekking onwards, one destination.

stood before my misty
bedroom window pane
I saw hazy scenes of future
and my gray reflected face

blotches, smudges, patches
feelings, emotions, thoughts
on that bedewed window
of a million human hearts

my bare palm feels the glass
cold indelible marks.
forms a million faces
in that frosty glass

Gazing deeply at me
from beyond the glass
the hungry and the bleeding
from a thousand miles.

My heart begins to wonder
what scenes are yet to come
beyond that misty window
as the days come and go by

Will warm rays of sunshine
ensure the mist goes dry,
or raindrops bathe the pane
and wash away it stain.

but those searching gazes,
of a million stained faces,
of bleeding feet and wishes
forever is etched in that pane

if there be a better way
whereby, that i could say
what i feel for you by night or day
that holds me in perfect sway

that moment, when years away
my heart wandered astray
and reached a haven there to stay
weathering, seasons sad or gay

many summers and springs display
times and time of age and gray
yet not a grain of morbid decay
in life's tests which my love assay

youthful strides of bygone days
the careful gaits of sage
or listless as a corpse shud lay,
with you my soul will stay.

waiting watching seeking
in vain
anxious eager expecting
in vain
unrelenting mind thinking
in vain
hopeful  aspiring dreaming
in vain
golden memories resurging
in vain
gazing searching reaching
in vain
lonely aimless existing
in vain
painful destined sojourn
in vain
hoping moments solace  
in vain
wishful hoping a glimpse
in vain
desiring deeply belonging
in vain
closely warmly approaching
in vain
missing pining crying
in vain
A dawn to come, this pain
no more in vain

A thousand shifting dunes
A million mirages
Brazen storms a raging
heavy laden with sand

None a single cloud
In the fiery blaze above
Blinding flames of fire
Pound the miles of sand.

Footprints lost in time
Wiped by moving strands
Was there and is no more
The trace of who tread where

Pushing on with head bent low
Arid winds and sand assault
Unseen yet clearly seen
To reach that patch of green.

Within the nature's viles
An island of paradise
Lush green and flowing blue
Unreal surreal but true

Thousands lost in the dunes
Scorched parched marooned
Few tho of good fortune
The oasis they find a soon

Each day as life's wind rages
Time shifts and moves as dunes
Blaze of regrets beat down
Track wither to go is wiped

Within my daily desert
A patch of life so verdant
Makes the trek more hopeful
The oasis that is you

Green with life so vibrant  
Blue and clear your spring
***** breeze your laughter
My Oasis for here and after

Shibu Varkey

Your finger was good enough
For the first of my fledgling steps
As steady and firm I held
New step seemed easier than the first
Now your hand I see reach out
From beyond reality's veil
Gently on my shoulder placed
Nudging me on to those steps
You left me to walk by myself.

Your face was good enough
For first of my fumbling doubts
Each thought seemed clearer than the last.
Illumed by the faith in your face.
Your smile  i see each starry night
Light setting my face aflame
Filling me,your spirit resolute
For each  demon you left me to face.

Your breath was good enough
Felt it warm, so close to my face
My hurts and tears seemed naught
As its warmth breathed to my being life.
Your hug now I feel in the breeze.
Its gush telling me you are here.
Feeling the joy and the pain
That you left me here to gain.

When my heart hears, what for it longs
It would know, tho' I know not.
The words in which it yearns to hear
It would know, tho' I know not.
Ask it I do, so often when lone
Yet reveals it not it's long desire,
Tells me be still, some day you'll know.

When my heart feels, what for it longs
It would know, tho' I know not.
The sense in which it yearns to feel
It sure would know, tho' I know not.
Scent from your hair so near my face,
Yet heart tells be still, some day you'll know.

When my heart longs for what it longs
It sure does know, and I know too.
The searing heat of love's desire
It sure does know and so do I
Prisoner of hope, me, my heart calls,
Her words, her Scent, her feelings all,
Be still for, that day you'll know.

Your spirit has the smell of earth,
kissed by first rain,
effervescent with scent of promise,
Your spirit has the smell of the sea shore,
the breeze, sweet with the salty spray of power.
Your spirit has the smell of the mountain side, grassy meadow wild with fragrance of untame flowers
Your spirit has the smell of a monastery, mystic camphor serene thoughts of living.
Your spirit has the smell of the battle,
blood, gore, flesh and fight
Your spirit has the smell of a maiden
out from her scented bath,
sensual, drip dripping
Your spirit has the smell of forest,
wild sweaty, hot and humid.
Your spirit has the scent so honest,
of love pure tho rugged and rough

This veneer of civilization
So vexatious in its impression.

Words adroit, adept, artificial,
So artful is the communication.

Gestures gentle soft, controlled,
So measured is the emotion

Visage serene, cool, pliant
So unfazed is the digression.

Eyes moist, weary, weathered,
Yet sensible is the suppression.

Thoughts random running havoc,
Yet accepted is the discretion.

Emotions roiling seething simmering
Yet artificial is the expression.

This veneer of civilization
Such progressive regression

That elusive thought
Danced merrily away
Into the recesses of its play

Mocking me with its glee
Prancing away without regret
Giving me no reprieve and stay

Soul searing, mind wearing
As my mind meanders
And limps through the fray

Across landscaped extravaganza
And deep inner turmoils
The demons do come up to prey

I plod on undeterred in my path
That wayward thought demon
I encounter, confront and slay!!

Cloudless and bright your visage
Your raven strands blow across it.
The gentle rise and ebb of your breath.
I gaze at you, asleep in pristine beauty.

The waves that lap the silver sands
Of shore bathed in pure beams of the moon,
Echoes of the sirens of the tired ships
for mooring to rest, from  their trips.

Hours pass over me, yet undeterred.
My eyes never content, longing more.
Calls out to your heart with silent gaze,
Waves of love, again, again and again.

As light on rippleless water
Flashes a smile on your lips
A flutter a flash of your eyelids.
Perhaps dream of me, you did.

Slumber evades my being
Captive it never is mine
As often as I sit a gazing
Your beauty in sleep divine.

Will you come
To lean with me,
On the arms of the lengthening shadows.

To watch with me
The Even descend, with her radiant garland of stars.

To feel with me
The blackness engulfing, of the gloom of the inky night.

To smell with me
The jasmine, bloom,to the kiss of the evening breeze.

To sit with me
The ripples on the lake to see, the shimmer of the evening gleam.

To be with me
As bustle of the day takes leave,and solitude of night arrives

To hear with me
The soulful chords,that strike, a tune so mellow.

To wait here with me
Till the rays of dawn arrive,

Will you come

Timid rays of the morning glow
Shy to step,out of the clouds
Shyer still, to fall into the arms
Of the darkness open wide.

Twilight waits with baited breath
For its moment of retreat,
can never be, until consummate
That  celestial celebrate.

Bashful now, and amorously
Those golden beams descend
And the twain does meet.
The light and night
Births new destiny.

As the twain in embrace dwells
Sublime their souls entwined.
Glorious light adorns the skies
While night closes his eyes.

Oh golden ray that filled my night,
Resplendent dazzling bright
Timidly tho you did step out
Of the clouds of wasted time.

Now you've filled my sky with light
My night has closed his eyes,
Warm embrace of your sanguine smiles
The luster of your laughter sprite.

Each day awakens and night goes by
Longs ever more for you.
My soul awaits your tender rays,
Your touch yea your embrace!

Tis past midnight and all alone
Where's comradeship and love??
A world that's gone to sleep
Has no room for a lonely soul
The sounds of snores around
But none , to ease your qualms.

Laugh and the world laughs with you
Cry and you cry all alone
what you lost none other has
What you missed,has none other
Your pains are yours alone
Your gains many to share
Your sorrows you alone to bear


No shoulder to call your own
Laughing faces many all day
But none the kinship of pain
All with you when smiles abound
None when heartaches sear
Laugh and the world laughs with you
Cry and you cry all alone.

Once they laughed with you
Now sleeping still and sound
Their means to life, have found.
But you all lost and stiff
Oh Chardonnay and spice
My comrades for life
My pains you understand

Love is a cheat untrue
There's nothing more uncouth
It's just a word for fools
No grain of truth no proof
None cares no one tears.

None's there's a waiting for you
No supper warm, no hearth
All alone you are, you are
Come home to me myself

You thought love's a great word
But living is only by bread
Love fills not the stomach
What fills does matter, nothing else!!

Don't laugh don't cry just live
She was not not yours, not yours never!
Naught can change the course, survival
Bread and water, no butter no jam.

Laugh and the world laughs with you
Cry and you cry as you do!!
Tis past midnight and you all alone
That's your life and you live it as you do.

The sun had warmed the city
The home felt warmer too
The wintry night seemed over
A day bright and clear did loom
He pulled up his chair for breakfast
And into his cereal, milk poured
Soft padded steps she walked up
Sat beside him in quietness cool,
The warmth of the day and sunshine
Yet no thaw between the two.
I am leaving said she in hushed breath
True love have I found anew
milk he kept pouring in silence,
No words, no gaze, no sigh

The sun had just warmed the city
But, his day, had just ended too!!

A chariot is thine heart,
O thou rich tressed Selene
In which doth ride the tides,
of ardor, tepid aflame.

Strung to thy chariot by chords
Unseen yet tangible knot,
Whither thy chariot wandereth,
Thither draggeth me, constrained.

The chord unseen, yet bindeth,
Ethereal, tenuous sublime,
A barb so dolorous in seasons!
Other times candescent delight.

What causeth this bond precision?
Nay no reasonable cause,
Entrapped in each a residue
from prior existence unknown?

Why doth the string pull so constant,
Tho' intervenes a thousand miles!
Why cometh thine chariot  instant,
When unseen, my spirits' downcast?

Selene! ageless,deathless, thy Endymion,
Eternal though his sleep,
Our souls entwined forever,
Many an aeon shall we keep!!!

My love, today,as you touch the skies
Look down and sure you'll see
A forlorn banner flying free
Emblazoned with love for thee
The words you read upon it
with the brush of my soul inscribed
Tells of the unrequited yearning
Of my  heart, yours ever to be .

And as your gaze draws a closer
A passion a blazing you'll see
A life consumed in the fire
That burns with desire for thee.
Years, months and hours
of solemn wait tirelessly
For moments of joy a spending
My love, with you endlessly.

Your pictures in my mind I treasure
Each one of them preciously
A story together is woven
Though none of them includes me.
But the embers of hope still burning
Someday will I closely be
Never to bid you goodnight
No mornings where you, I won't see

The air so thick with blackness
A knife could slice it through

The mind shrouded in darkness
Any light would snuffed be too

The soul enchained in sadness
Crushing fetters of grief so blue

The spirit doused in coldness
Icy grip of memories, tis cruel

Dark night of my soul's distress
Sunrise, nay none in view.

My world of obscure somberness
No glimmer, no ray, no dew.

My unending  night, comfortless
my constant companion you

Never you left me friendless
My dark night, ever so true.

Cascades of velvety black hair
tumble and swirl down
to encircle the liveliest face ever
and like rivulets flow down the neck.
Almond eyes with radiance
that sparkle and twinkle all time.
Red lips like a bow waiting
to shape the mirthiest laughter ever,
adorned with pearls in perfect symmetry.
you are a poetry in beauty
and a symphony of grace,
sculpted beyond any imagination

I walked away with you,
the road missing your feet, weeping.

I walked away with you,
and the gate, forlorn open, waiting.

I walked away with you,
and the dewdrops anxious, glistening.

I walked away with you
and the morning birds silent, brooding.

I walked away with you
and the morning mist hanging, silently.

I walked away with you
and the waft,chilly and clinging.

I walked away with you
and the sunbeam's radiance, dimming

I walked back with you
and lo, life comes back, brimming.

The road and the gate,sunshine and gale
Birds and the dew are all anew
Such is their joy on seeing you.

How long is an hour?
How far a hundred miles?
An hour is just the time
between a heart beat and the next
and a hundred miles is just
between a sigh and the next,
for time and space,they vanish
when I spend time with to you.

your laughter exploding mirth
your assurance brimming faith
your perception your wisdom
The riotous spirit at your core

You are that stardust that tumbled
Across space, landed on this planet
right at the spot where I would see you
meet you and be impacted by you!!

Eternity they say is from infinity to infinity,
but I know my eternity is from you to you.

Hours become days
days become years

Like the flickering candle in the wind
Thoughts pop up from deep within.
Panic the soul feels
maybe never again to see

So distant and close so near and far
Never within the arms to hold
Never to feel the coolness of your breath
Never to hear the pounding  of your heart
Never the flushing and the rushing

Craziness that you asked to be defined........cant fully tho

why should the waves wait, at the horizon for the sun to come.

there isn't else, the magic of night

why should the twilight wait for the evening star to rise

there isn't else the mystery of night

why should the zephyr wait to be filled with queen of the night

there isn't else, the fragrance of night

why should time hush when I for you wait

there isn't else the madness of love

why should life pause when I for you wait

there isn't else a reason to live

Blue, the gentle calm,of the hand
that for  the bruised cares.

Green, the stillness of peace
on a mother's breast a crying child

Rosy, the dreams of the bride
for the day of bliss as she prepares

Red, roaring fire the passion
when it, the pinnacle rides.

White, the haze of twilight
as youthful days do blight
Creased limbs and cheeks and foreheads
and memories sublime

The palette filled with colors
In my heart I hold
to paint in your life the murals
of many joys untold

Some minds always on simmer
simply boil over very easily
while others frozen and frigid
need the melting heat of a volcano
to thaw them.

But you have the flame of the sun
with the coolness of the neon light
And like a firefly to the lamp
am drawn to it.

Flaming sometimes
soothing coolness sometimes,
the natural rhythm of your soul
like waves over the parched sands
of a sun scorched beach.

I wait everyday
for your tides to wash over me
again and again and again...

Seagulls i see diving
into your froth each day
To catch the gleam they see
in your flaming surf.

But I wait for your ebbs to come
again and again and again
coz its never enough
and yearn for you to come again!

As inky fingers caressed my mind,
like ripples on a placid lake,
your face gently melted away,
and blackness shut my mind.

When golden fingers touched my mind,
like myriad dots on the placid lake,
they came together and another day,
behold it was your face again.

If life's in a tizzy, be more crazy, 
give it back, Oh Give it back! 

If there's light, switch it on, 
If there ain't, love in the dark!

If someone cares, care some more, 
if they don't, hard luck bro.

If someone loves, love 'em back,
if they don't, let it go!

If they share, just be there,
If they don't, who ****** cares.

If life's in a tizzy, be more crazy,
give it back... Give it back....

Oh yes.... Give it back!!!

some people love angels, they are so dainty and gentle, there's music, they say in their wings, peace on their brow and serenity writ large on their faces.

some love the devil with the fire and fury he brings, the sulfurous odor notwithstanding, they love his audacious laughter.

when the dainty gentleness of the angel is wrapped in the fire and fury of the devil and when the music of her flight is punctuated with the audacity of his laughter.

There right there,is born the potion for my woes, the balm for my pains, there I see clearly what my heart is been craving, for ages....

there I realise that, that perfect amalgam is you.....

Treading along life’s lonely path
Its joys and pains galore
Learning to take it all alone
With none a smile to spare

Then came along a lively bird
A stranger  though long known
Chirpily, so gracefully
A nest of love did build

Oh bird of hues so splendorous
Your voice of symphony
On this road as I trudge along.
brings  peaceful harmony

Care and being wanted for
Are things of destiny
To some denied and some avowed
By supernatural plans

Bird of plumes of love and Grace
Your flaming touch ignites
The joy of being thought about
Sincerely and true

Stay here oh bird, in the nest you built
Come Sun or thunderstorm
With you to sing a random song
I ease can trudge along