Picking up pieces like verses from broken songs withering daisies losing hope, knowing they will be gone Dying freshness like on death bed, of a pale old monk Withering sunflowers losing sunshine, knowing they will be gone A cracked glassware waiting to be broken and torn, I hung by a thin thread tied to a sharp edge losing faith, knowing i will be gone. Like there is eternal silence before a storm Everything precious in my life was dying their silent pain preceding the death of my dawn the day had come, it was a dark night as and when i jumped to death giving up on life, not wishing to live anymore it took me a nano second to make my life end what happened soon after was nothing but pitch black no pain no sensation, deadly blankness at me just simply stared While the world thought i had killed them by deserting them and my baby, my Iris, was also almost already dead; as the world thought i was selfish living for myself, i was actually fighting a battle of my own life and death The jump didn't hurt me surprised i was as much as you are forget about killing me, the jump offered me another chance like rising sun, and the twilight before, my eyes opened as my body laid on the road i got up, and checked my hands, legs and nose everything was in a perfect piece, telling me i would still go on. never ever had i thought before that i would be where i was that night scared of my own self for repeating the same mistake, i ran again from myself trying to save my soul, my mind and my head. My baby, she was away and lonely on her own quest, i had nowhere else to go, but until she came back i ran and ran and ran again, from the world, from myself, and from a repeted potential self inflicted death like zombied frankestien, i was a body, nothing rest awaiting my baby to return for she had the heart that would fit perfectly in my chest only then would i be really myself again, i knew so i ran back in circles waiting for her plane to land. today as i write this, you know alive is my hand nature has this stern rule of life, where the dead is not allowed to come back and yet i am here, having fought all odds, trying to reclaim my place, a palace of cardboard box have i defied nature? or has nature broken its own law? i know your love has protected me goddess iris, i was and i am, your lover reborn.
Her Bed’s cold.
She escaped,
Flew away,
With a dream
A step away
Unknown to her
Slaying cold
Washed away
All her gold
Now she lay
Clothed in bed
Naked and cold
Naked but Clothed
That’s how cold
My summer girl feels
She grew up in sun battling heat
World’s apart
She battles cold
The least I could do
Is warm her bed, and defeat the cold.
Once upon a ‘Kerela Coffee’
Good Morning ‘Mumbai’!!!!
Kasa Kay? Bara aahes?
The sun isn’t shining
The weather is weird
The sky is cloudy
When You are not near
Love is like Acid
The one you trip on
Your are that handle
I would love to grab on
To hold you and kiss you
From a distance of miles
I pour a cup of Kerela Coffee
In every sip I drink your smile
To hold you and kiss you
To the North I will fly
Will bring aromas of Kerela coffee
On the wings of butterfly!
“Sattvic”
Do you remember?
What it feels like?
A walking sanctum
Of Purity inside
That’s what I saw in you
The time we first met
When Lord Ganesha
Dreamt to get etched
Aaj din Waisa hai
Ganpati Bappa
Baitha hai
Nasha kuch aisa hai
Wesak jaisa
Mahina hai
Bappa kuch dino me
Visarjit hongey
Par tum par Jo Baithe
Bappa Kabhi na khoyenge
Tumse Meri Pooja hai
Tumse Bappa ki Aarti
Tumse Meri Chaturthi hai
Tumse Meri Aashiqui…
Shuruaat hi kuch aisi Hui
Devi se jo main mila
Aaj us Devi ke Bina
Har mandir hai Suna suna
Aaj Bappa hai khush
Tumse chipak Kar hai khud
He watches your back
After you he looks
Our love is an iron throne
No dragon fire can make it melt
Forged by Bappa himself
Most auspicious beginning ever felt
Today is a great day to start
Your first day at college
Will be Saattvic,
and a class apart!
Just like how we began
With God, Us and Art,
Happy Ganesh Chaturthi Aarti
Inside you is Bappa’s Heart.
Tumse Meri Pooja hai
Tumse Bappa ki Aarti
Tumse Meri Chaturthi hai
Tumse Meri Aashiqui…
And with his blessings
You will have a Saattvic Start
To a colourful career
Like that day when we ethced your heart …
Inside you
Bappa finds his Heart..
Tumse Meri Pooja hai
Tumse Bappa ki Aarti
Tumse Meri Chaturthi hai
Tumse Meri Aashiqui…
Do you remember?
What it feels like?
A walking sanctum
Of Purity inside
That’s what I saw in you
The time we first met
When Lord Ganesha
Dreamt to get etched
Floods of Hurt
Once upon a time,
Words didn’t rhyme.
I have lost myself
Never to find
How did this happen?
Loosing my mind.
Drowned in sorrow
There’s no tomorrow
Sinking everything
If heart was a bone, pain is marrow.
You are right to see,
How badly I did
Breaking you in pieces
It was wrong of me.
That crime is heinous
I deserve jail
I deserve a lot of punishment
My heart has failed.
From waking up to your kisses,
I am waking up to your hatred
And it’s nothing wrong
As you are simply returning the favour.
You failed to see my love in what I did
And doing that you showed me my value,
I have to blow and sip on the tea; careful,
Or else there will be no tongue; unburned.
I am sorry for I broke you
But I was just trying to show you the truth
You thought of me as a jerk
Forgetting all that we have worked for.
But it’s nothing wrong,
As you just returned the favour
I deserve this pain of drowning
Floods of hurt would actually be a favour.
I have learnt my lessons,
And I will never hurt you again
But if loving you hurts you,
Do you want me to halt my love train?
I love you, but I am poor
I will be rich, but have to pay my dues first
Dues in suffering, and in hurt and pain
Floods of hurt, are actually a favour.
Yes I love you, more than anything and anyone,
But all it takes for you to judge me,
Is one call, one word, one mistake, one error..
I said I am sorry,
Didn’t know where to take my hurt
Today I am okay
As I am taking the pain down with the flood.
I have lost my heart,
And I feel the emptiness in my chest
I am sure it’s lying somewhere in a dustbin
It’s now worst what was once the best.
I was a fool,
to be open to you
Little did I realise
I should have gently loved you .
Broken heart,
broken home,
broken will,
but we still go on
Thanks to you,
your love is accessible
The one I saved as a fixed deposit
From a time everything was lovable.
I love you,
And am grateful for your love,
I am sorry I dragged you
In my flood of hurt.
Forgive me if you can,
I won’t force it on you anymore.
I am sorry I could not give you the life
You always deserved.
Wish you the best
Better than the rest
Life is a test
A beautiful fest
Glad I could meet you,
Now I know love,
I will forever remember you,
Only for your love.
I am sorry from the bottom of my heart.
“Days like today”
Babe, good morning!
You wanted to wake up to a poem,
I prefer waking up to you.
Here Is what you wished for,
Hoping my wish would come true soon.
“From the starting of the week
I would kiss you on your cheeks
And it’s a good day…
I would bake you eggs and toast
It’s a lovely day to host
And it’s a good day…
I would kiss you on the head
And then snug you on the bed
And it’s just your day…
We would just lay on the bed
From gorgeous morning to sunset
And it’s just love ways…
Beyond the farthest corners of this reality
Beyond the kingdoms of humanity
Beyond the sense of existence
Beyond the rhyme of ecstasy
I’ve got this soothing tune
It will take us to the moon
And we would dance on…
Floating high up in the space
We travel cosmos up in gaze
And we would fly on…
And then we would find our home
A bed of twinkle,Roof of stars above
And we would live on…
To the last of our breaths
And to the first of our deaths
We would dream on..
Beyond the farthest corners of this reality
Beyond the kingdoms of humanity
Beyond the sense of existence
Beyond the rhyme of ecstasy
It’s you and me
Forever to be
Travelling galaxies
We were meant to be. “
Good morning to a dream girl in Denmark…
“My love for you is beyond the physical”
As and when
I close my eyes
I see you
And our times
As and when
I rest my head
I see you
Next to bed
As and when
I pull on the sheets
I feel you
Beneath the quilt
Every night I manifest you
Your apparitions
They come in day time too
Making the most
Of such celestial moments
I make sure I am always with you
As and when
I open my eyes
I rush to the mirror
And look into the glass
As I see my reflection
Eye to eye
I see you in my image
In me you lie…
Every night I manifest you
Your apparitions
They come in day time too
Making the most
Of such celestial moments
I make sure I am always with you
“My love for you is beyond the physical”
As and when
I close my eyes
I see you
And our times
As and when
I rest my head
I see you
Next to bed
As and when
I pull on the sheets
I feel you
Beneath the quilt
Every night I manifest you
Your apparitions
They come in day time too
Making the most
Of such celestial moments
I make sure I am always with you
As and when
I open my eyes
I rush to the mirror
And look into the glass
As I see my reflection
Eye to eye
I see you in my image
In me you lie…
Every night I manifest you
Your apparitions
They come in day time too
Making the most
Of such celestial moments
I make sure I am always with you
“When Mumbai lost it’s heart to Aarhus, Here without you, Mumbai is To-Let”
Cravings I pluck
Red roses Scent of Musk
Hanging legs
Over promenade
Here without you
Sun refuses Dusk
Now the Sun don’t set
Arabian sea don’t wet
The clouds don’t fly
And Mumbai don’t sweat
Cravings I collect
From abundance I select
Dry footprints
On the shoreline
Here without you
Marine drive is To-Let
Now love birds won’t love
And the cops won’t shoo
High waves won’t splash
Nobody would morning walk too
Nothing is same
Yet nothing has changed
City of dreams
Awaits the landing of your Plane
“Grab a bite of the sun in Aarhus”
Greetings to my Queen, for her first Morning!
The Sun
Has risen
So high
It blossoms
Hung in between
Set and Rise
It radiates brilliance
For you it shines
It’s the same sun
That is over my head
The sun that is going to greet you
The best morning you ever had
We are not away,
No, not us
The Magnificent Sun connects us,
And keeps us close
And if in the northern winter
You find yourself cold..
You grab a bite
Of the sun in Aarhus
I will trace your bite marks on the sun
And etch it like a tattoo on myself
For you are my universe
My sun is inside you
My world my soul,
They reside deep inside you
The Sun
Has risen
So high
It blossoms
It’s the same sun
That is over my head
The sun that is going to greet you
The best morning you ever had
We are not away,
No, not us
The Magnificent Sun connects us,
And keeps us close
And if in the northern winter
You find yourself cold
You grab a bite
Of the sun in Aarhus!
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