Saturday 25 December 2010

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Have you ever been there
10,000 phone numbers
Listed on your phone
But not one to call?
Sitting idle on a Sunday afternoon
Hoping life would happen to you
But it doesn't?
Realising everyone but you
Is celebrating something
While what you are celebrating
Is your independence or
Is that lonliness I sense?
Well this is the price you pay
For being bull-headed
Perhaps my mother would say.
I guess she's right!

Wednesday 9 June 2010

Closure















Part I
Dreamy even while I'm awake
Eyes shut tight with unrequited sleep
But yet restless & insomniac
The whirlwind in my head
Moves south.
Heart break city
Heart ache city
Lost!
Like I promised I'd be
And then it rains.

Part II
All I had to do
Is turn around
Look at your sleeping face
While I stayed awake
Nursing my aching heart
With all that love
Love from yore
Love today
And it rains
While I silently drift
Into slumber.

Part III
We pass through
Places we held hands
We said goodbyes
We touched
Because there was
Nothing more we could do
No words could express
What you and I felt.
Every place
Was marked by memories of you
Every memory of this city
Is marked by you.

Saturday 17 April 2010

Chronicles of Two ~ I





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Once again they set off
    Jumping walls
  Sitting with their feet dangling
Into imaginery waters.
   Wet toes,
Longing hearts
    Yearning for nothing less than the moon.

   What's between you and me
Is beyond us she said.
  They both agreed.
Holding hands
    Reaching out to the sky
   They dreamt of non-existent swings
While they rode to nether lands.

Like children       like lovers
  Like borne out of each other
Sharing bliss sharing sorrow
Sharing hurt sharing sweetmeats out of nowhere
   Wishing for nothing less than the moon
      They rode to nether lands.