my dad used to say all of the songs were about being seventeen young and sweet, wind in your hair, excitement in your veins and I thought wow, that means seventeen could be my year will my fairy godmother spare a wish? can my rags of hopelessness finally sparkle? maybe seventeen is the excuse I need to be brave to take the shot in the dark if it means finding light to cross the unbeaten path even though tree roots are out to get me to express the love flowing in the canyons of my heart to stop closing doors as quickly as I open them my age is young, but my dreams are old with this next chapter comes stories untold
I've had 536,457,600 seconds of air and don't want to waste one more

It will have blood:
They say blood will have blood.

Between heaven and earth the ethereal pulse of God's creation
sifting through the soul like a fluttering kite in motion
Here we are in a dwelling place of  quarrel and demolition
only peace can assuage the heart and give it, its contrition
In the middle of war stretched across landscape of your heart
"The Lord's prayer," in a lilting whisper, you got this to an art
Give us today our daily bread and help us to do our part,  
it is only love agape that gives our soul a fresh new start
Connecting spaces of our head-heart connection a mantelpiece  
decorated with meditative awareness and unblinking utter peace
"Lead Us Not Into Temptation" let me decrease as you increase
seed and bloom inside my heart and help me fold this crease
Side by side two strong bookends holding together what rends  
with a soulful melodious vibration, I arrive at every bend  
"May Thy Kingdom Come" and live within me until the very end  
side by side, ... like two old reliable and sturdy, bookends.

You are true
Parents are sky
Till they are alive
Childhood never dies

Short and sound poems are
liked most
As they need less time and less effort to understand
In this fast moving world

I was moving out with fast steps
As clock in shop was ticking
for close

I Stepped out to leave
"Mam"
I looked back
9 year old girl hiding behind
her mom
She was peeping and shying
I smiled and waved

Her younger brother
5 years old came running
and clung on me
Raised his hands and wrapped me
I lowered and embraced him
He was snuggling in my arms
I felt relaxed and floating
in pure love
"This hug sent me in meditation for a moment"

I saw you
You saw me
Coalesce together
To love and be loved
Give rise
A wonderful human race

You may call us
Adam and Eve
           OR
Manu and Satrupa
Makes no difference

We gradually evolve together
To find solace in life

Stood on
Road of my life split
in two ways
Stopped and amazed

Left less travelled
In fear to get a longer way

But in the cries of most travelled
I lost my ways