Bibliophile

·         So many words to say…

None that come to my parched lips

So many sounds that ink link to my past…

None that fill the vanity of my dreams

·         Sitting by the window sill…

There are so many things I feel,

So many chaperoned thoughts…

All pleading to be free!

·         My head hung low…

Eyes blotched wet,

There are so many pearls…

Those wait to go forlorn.

·         The coffee in my hand…

Turns a pale shade of dirt,

The one sip that touched my lips…

Has its essence still lingering by!

·         Soon it turns dark outside…

The light fading away in a string,

But alas! Look how it fails to register…

Any sign of gleam in this prudent being!

·         The sun goes does completely…

Yet the tree stands firm,

With no morsel of pain or fear…

It testifies that there’s better time to come!

·         How I wish my life would be like the tree

Daunting and carefree would I too be…

With no tests to give, no scandal to deal,

Wouldn’t it then be worth a THOUSAND WORDS indeed??

Love...this thing called Love!!!

Some say it feels heavenly…

Some may find it Satan’s grasp,

For some love is to hold respect…

While others hail it in the spirit of lust!

When in kindergarten…

Love is to be cuddled, to be insane it is,

But with the passage of time…

It certainly takes forms that it never did!

My mum was my first love…

For she brooded in me vanity and prowess alike,

And then came my hero…

Oh! How I wished I met him every now and morrow!

In the roll of time that changed it all…

And as my shorts shrunk,

Simplicity was long forlorn…

And it was only lust that stayed on!!

While some call it Gen X…

For others it is a mere ploy,

What remains constant in this treachery…

Is love, in its plethora of shapes and forms!!

In this short life that I had…

There are multitudes I’ve seen,

From the purest of pure feelings…

To the ones that are muffled truths indeed!!

To be happy…to feel a sate within…

There is not much that we do

But, it is these two things that we show a slack for,

That MAKES US. Or BREAK US through!!

Love is intricate, delicate and coy…

No matter how we feel about it.

In times that we think we failed,

LOVE this thing called LOVE…

Becomes for us, our hope and our power to fly by!!

Oft have I asked, “What is love?”

Is love a stream or a bunch of incoherent phases...

Peeking through the mesh of human emotions…

Why do lovers part then, while the bond linking them,

Stays as firm and never astray??

Be it a platonic form or

The most carnal manifestation it be…

What is true is true…love or lust…

It is we who make it what it is!!

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LIFE; Popcorn Bites PART Three

The evolution of human life on earth has been rather a speculative narrative and from careless cave dwellers to the quintessential modern man, there is none but one thing that went on a retrogressive succession (of course other than the disappearance of the tail that is!)... somewhere between living life the way we are expected to and the way we actually end up living it, we inevitably lose out on the numerous chances of a spirited, upbeat life! Today a daughter...tomorrow a wife...then a homemaker...then a mother's delight, it is rather a shaky path that we traverse in this journey of life. 

Amidst the several roles we play, switching on and off effortlessly, how many of us do ponder over the basic necessities in life? Some might say, "Who has the time to waste in such listless thinking?" while others mask their inability with a parapet of indifference. Irrespective of what our current disposition in life is, a mother, a child a wife or even a nobody, it is more a rule than an exception that all of us do leave out certain things in life, not by chance but by choice!

Sometimes the day comes and brings with it a lot more than happy moments. More than often do we get up and find the corner of our lips taking a curve and the globe of our eyes, shinning in an elated pride. How many times have we smiled sheepishly and thought about what made this sudden outburst of emotions? No matter how disciplined our minds work during the daylight hours, there is always a chance of losing it to some unattended thought and it is during those vain moments of emotional nakedness that life actually finds its rightful niche!