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208 · Jan 2021
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Eshwara Prasad Jan 2021
Life is a farewell tour.
Every day we say farewell
to something.
208 · Nov 2021
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Eshwara Prasad Nov 2021
The purpose of life is not merely the fulfillment of dreams, which have a limited objective and dimension, but the culmination of a journey at the point where it began, decisively.
208 · Feb 2021
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Eshwara Prasad Feb 2021
There is a vacancy of intellect in me.
Can you fill it?
208 · Feb 2024
Equal in the end
Eshwara Prasad Feb 2024
Born and die we are,
No one is superior or inferior.
Equal in the end.
208 · Jun 2021
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Eshwara Prasad Jun 2021
I'll come like a humming breeze if you call me in hushed whispers.
208 · Jan 2023
Transient and Eternal
Eshwara Prasad Jan 2023
What grabs the eye is transient, but what grabs the heart is eternal.
208 · Oct 2023
Free my soul
Eshwara Prasad Oct 2023
You stole my heart when I was in a daze.
Don't return it;  let it die in your tender arms.
Allow my soul to dwell in realms beyond reality.
208 · Aug 2021
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Eshwara Prasad Aug 2021
He de-recognised his mind since it generated thoughts that had worth of litter.
208 · Sep 2022
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Eshwara Prasad Sep 2022
If I had known that you hoard everything and don't use it, I wouldn't have given you my affection.
208 · Apr 2022
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Eshwara Prasad Apr 2022
The dawn sky was adorned with surreal clouds that inspired life-weary eyes. The clouds expanded through the sky as the day progressed, quickly becoming destructive and disrupting life on a laboured stroll.
208 · Jan 2022
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Eshwara Prasad Jan 2022
The prettiest gift you ever gave me was a garland made of your smile pearls.
Nothing ever compares to it.
208 · Jun 2021
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Eshwara Prasad Jun 2021
They needed my presence, yet I was treated as intangible.
208 · Apr 2021
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Eshwara Prasad Apr 2021
He hit a raw nerve when he said          
" I fight against all forms of discriminations in the society", which  everyone knew he was actively promoting.
208 · Oct 2023
Life larger than ideal
Eshwara Prasad Oct 2023
When life becomes larger than the ideal for humans, human bonds and empathy break down, and degradation and destruction become his chosen destiny.
207 · Sep 2021
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Eshwara Prasad Sep 2021
When he rested his perniciousness-filled head on it, the dead stone awoke and dived into a ravine.
207 · Jun 2022
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Eshwara Prasad Jun 2022
The lines that were penned for you have melted away. The heart still remains hard..
207 · Feb 2021
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Eshwara Prasad Feb 2021
Like a hungry lion you trailed me, but quit when you saw my pride.
207 · Jan 2024
Dissolve fear
Eshwara Prasad Jan 2024
Walked, with purpose, into fire's embrace,unfettered.
Unfazed by the cat calls tossed my way.
Fear, a vanquished foe, lost its trace,
Lingering presence of failure held no sway.
The outcome, a vicious tempest,  ceased to chase,
in the depths of experience it dissolved without a trace.
207 · Jan 2024
Relentless Fate
Eshwara Prasad Jan 2024
Illusion or dream, the emotion is inherent. An unlikable mind, an irreversible *******. Relentless fate
207 · Jun 2022
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Eshwara Prasad Jun 2022
The mind saw all that the eyes couldn't see.
The soul saw all that the mind couldn't see.
The soul saw only the soul itself.
207 · Mar 2021
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Eshwara Prasad Mar 2021
Last benchers are more likely to become poets, because they dream big about their future while the present is surreptitously slipping away from them!
207 · Mar 2022
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Eshwara Prasad Mar 2022
Dreams of hardened characters disrupt ritualised sleep.
Tough characters torment the inescapable life awake.
It's hard to live life without feeling it.
206 · Mar 2024
Colourless World
Eshwara Prasad Mar 2024
The world is colored by the mind. But does the mind see its own color?
206 · Aug 2020
Act of Survival
Eshwara Prasad Aug 2020
Sometimes, even writing
Poetry seems like an act
of survival.
206 · Feb 2022
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Eshwara Prasad Feb 2022
Thoughts crisscrossed my mind like overcrowded commuter trains, but I opted not to ride on them.
206 · Mar 2024
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Eshwara Prasad Mar 2024
Seeds planted in dark
Seeking light but cannot find
Know not their own self.
206 · Feb 2022
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Eshwara Prasad Feb 2022
I can't seem to discover half of the missing piece in my life of travel and storytelling.
206 · Nov 2021
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Eshwara Prasad Nov 2021
When dreams betray life, it appears to be all too real.
206 · Jan 2021
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Eshwara Prasad Jan 2021
Every human is just a pile of memories of broken love, shattered dreams, unattained desires, ego, missed opportunities......
206 · Dec 2023
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Eshwara Prasad Dec 2023
Only humans write poetry, it's true,
while everything else is an expression of it.
205 · May 2021
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Eshwara Prasad May 2021
I would fain believe that;
I am a two eyed observatory for the ever swelling web of creation.
205 · Jul 2023
Monotonous
Eshwara Prasad Jul 2023
Life is a monotonous drill.
205 · Aug 2023
Gloomy world
Eshwara Prasad Aug 2023
Everything, excluding your unlicensed smile, is gloomy.
205 · May 2023
Ghouls like thoughts
Eshwara Prasad May 2023
When thoughts invade your mind like ghouls on a dark night, how can you trust it?
205 · Apr 2021
Love needs a beating 💓
Eshwara Prasad Apr 2021
Our love was doomed to fail because your silent mechanical heart could never produce the kind of emotions necessary for love to blossom between us.
205 · Jun 2022
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Eshwara Prasad Jun 2022
When one seeks the absolute, he or she discovers something that is a part of it.
205 · Mar 2024
Patient Wait
Eshwara Prasad Mar 2024
Waited for a good day,
endlessly, and I became ripe
and sweet like a fruit.

Now, the ants are biting me
for dessert, a stinging end
to my patient wait.
205 · Feb 2022
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Eshwara Prasad Feb 2022
When your sugar is low, don't write poetry.
It will not have a sweet flavour.
205 · Jun 2021
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Eshwara Prasad Jun 2021
Is it ;

Breaking the news
       Or
Breaking the peace?
205 · Oct 2021
Weightless Dreams!
Eshwara Prasad Oct 2021
It's easy to keep moving when the mind is filled with dreams since dreams have no weight.
205 · Jan 2021
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Eshwara Prasad Jan 2021
Within my mind, all the climate calamities encountered outside are simulated. I'm compelled to bear both.
205 · Feb 2021
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Eshwara Prasad Feb 2021
Hey, what happened in a moment?
I lost sense of your presence.
I have never experienced anything like this.
Losing myself in an emotional void.
I have to figure out this before I loose sense of my being again.
205 · Feb 2023
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Eshwara Prasad Feb 2023
The good days may never come.
But the bad days are long gone.
It's better to think so.
205 · Mar 2021
Life thrown off kilter
Eshwara Prasad Mar 2021
I twisted air in my palm and flung it at you. Like a seductive twister, you gulped it down and charged at me. I'm perched perilously on a branch. Life has been thrown off kilter.
204 · May 2023
Shoreless Ocean
Eshwara Prasad May 2023
Where should I steer the ship of my destiny in the shoreless ocean of life?
204 · Dec 2021
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Eshwara Prasad Dec 2021
New thoughts swarmed over the dead as the day rose from its slumber.
Life unveiled its scarred familiar face as light gently kissed the secluded soul.
204 · Dec 2023
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Eshwara Prasad Dec 2023
Let not the praise of others sway your pure heart's might

Lest your sleep suffers a snag at midnight.
204 · Oct 2022
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Eshwara Prasad Oct 2022
Why has everyone now built a fence around their heart? Do they know who is not welcome there?
204 · Jun 2023
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Eshwara Prasad Jun 2023
Who are you still waiting for?
Everybody came and left.
They abandoned you here.
204 · Apr 2021
Unflinching Love
Eshwara Prasad Apr 2021
A pet dog, abandoned
in a desolate place,
searches for its
heartless owner.
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