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Vanita vats Oct 2024
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
Vanita vats Oct 2024
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
Vanita vats Oct 2024
Daily single boiled food
In one unshaped bowl
No other utensil is accepted
One old mug with broken holder
Left unused by children
is used to take liquids
When eat his food
No single grain is left
Cleaned as if washed

Wrap in single lower cloth
During all summers

Do most of his work
Without taking much help
No money he accepts for his help

Croons his prayers
to soften his old age pains

Wish to extend his life
For his son to give him time
to serve him
So that he should not have
guilt
Could not serve as he was mostly out for work
Live like a monk
is my father in law by luck
Vanita vats Oct 2024
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"
  Oct 2024 Vanita vats
S R Mats
Heat comes up
Heat cools down
Hot-white love
Can turn cool-blue

High color rising
On the horizon's line
Reflecting many colors
In a lover's eye

Beneath each new day
After every storm,
There must be a calm
As lovers often know
Vanita vats Oct 2024
Ash
I found ash
To rub on my skin
To hide all my beauty skills
No other mask needed
to safe myself
No tension of world's speculations
Long dead locks touching
earth
To make these a blanket to
sleep or make a head lock

Reached on a tough rock high mountain with all my efforts
Alone and alone only my own

Live in a small mouthed cave
To find my share of piece of peace
Dead ash is rubbed on future ash
No matter looked ugly or bad
Vanita vats Oct 2024
Live love is

as light as hydrogen

Memories of break ups are

as heavy as Radon
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