Is this another mirage?
I am happy to fall
In a trap woven by
Your words
My mind takes a back seat
When the feelings in my heart
Roar for you
I don’t grieve
Except on this page

Let your speech entice me
On paper
It seems we don't mean
The languages we speak

Let your wild imagination
Imprint my heart with surprise
May your failed mimics
Excite me in agony
And your up-to-the-scale chivalry
Spark a hope in me
For love, for peace

Let
Everything you speak
Be captured in my words
Let your imperfections
Sway away my sanity
And your expression
Become my addiction

Let your presence
Drive my passion for once
May your being, become my poetry

Let this be the good struggle
That brings forth the fighter
In all
Hidden under the shadows of evil
Was it too easy?
Being nothing all the way
When all you cause is chaos
Over the heeded counsel

There's an arrival of a storm
Heading towards my cold heart
That will lead us
To places
Far away from right and wrong

I am again listening to that
Uncanny voice
That keeps haunting me
In different faces
Makes me reckon
Where will I end up?
Building strong bonds
With a heart so weak

So,
Let this war end
Between the strong and the weak
It ain't a fair fight between the two
When you've got your mighty weapons
Paired wrong
On a vengeful war night.

Life seems embedded in those lost coins
Worthless in substance-
But rich in endeavours

The carvings on them
Fade away with moving time
But the learning’s are already carved
Into the soul
Though it’s invisible
To the blurred eye

When the short-lived luck flips
The side on the dime
We look for
A way out in this unnatural world
But the pain gradually loses its power
When ink takes over the paper

As the truth surfaces
The pristine moonlight
The lies are powerless
Which were shadowed otherwise
By the bright daylight

Here I am again
With the story of the lost coin
Thinking what I have lost in reality
When I have found within myself
A mint of steady fortune
To amplify the endeavours
Lost and wrecked
Between parted ways.

I am revisiting all places you explored
That mapped your journey in a different era
With or without me
I am reconnecting the dots
To tell a tale so rare

My pen wants to let the world know
That city feels are leaving an imprint
Of your illusionary presence
Let me inhale your story
And try to make it real
Here and now
Though your memory
With a promise that it’ll never fade
If I capture it on the page
Before the time blinks
And takes us to a new solace

No,
This wasn’t a bus ride on a humpty road
I could see the waves riding us
In the middle of the ocean
On the new moon night of Diwali

I find no land
When I see straight
Through the horizon at five am
The sail isn’t smooth
It was the first ship of the day
After the calamity
That ended after two days

The sea was full, mischievous, aggressive
It contoured into a mountain
From the lower compartment of the boat
Where I had my ticket
The window glass was parted out
Into sea and skies equally
Though the waters had already crossed
All levels high inside my head

I have no more words to say
How I survived the six feet
Crest and trough phenomenon
Which ended after two hours
With port and land in sight,
Alive.

So I keep falling
Into the similar patterns
Leading myself to sombre nights
I follow those mirages
On the highway to hell
Where all but love
Is catered

I am just weaving myself
Every paradigm of your being
Into sand castles of fantasy
Losing count of
Right from wrong
And reality from make-believe.