Night

The night sky absorbs my thoughts
In the silky warm embrace of longing wakefulness
In the stunning grace of the shallow moon
In the calm patience, willing and eager to listen and to know

The night wind engulfs my senses
In the fluffy lightness of breathtaking hidden surprises
In the dizzy heights of the wispy silver clouds
In the peaceful depths of un-awakened consciousness

The night shadows hide my scars
In the semi darkness of comforting ignorance
In the quite journey of the jewel studded cosmos
In the eternal flow of light and darkness.

To Be

I wish I had a torch

To light up the sorrow

And light up in joy,

To burn down the demons

And annihilate the shadows.

I wish I had the magic wand

To merge the past and the future,

To take me beyond the reaches of time.

I wish I had the strength

To continue to be …

Am I ?

The sun creeps up along the terrace

Trying to touch my toes,

To curl up as a warm ball of happiness

And spread its wings all over.

The colors of life

Keep waving their lovely petals,

To draw me into them

And induce me into the make belief

Sense of belongingness.

The crisp cool air rustles the leaves

Threatening to shatter my slumber,

And break into my dreamless sleep.

All around me the whole world

Moves to embrace me

Yet again in this eternal

Act of believing that I am alive.

For a spec of gold

Have you ever tried holding on
To sand within a closed fist
To feel the grains
As they struggle gently pushing and finally
Drifting out from
The tiny gaps that
You didn’t realize you had
In your fist that you had closed so tight.
To open it later to
See it empty except those few grains
That stick at the corner of your fingers..
Reminding you that you had held your fist closed
Too long and too tight..
Look closer and there would be
A spec of gold in the gains that cling on to you
A spec that shines so bright
That it makes this whole ordeal
Worth living for and makes you hope for more
So you go back and grab a little more sand yet again….
Who knows what spec of gold awaits you now !!

Waiting

The rains have washed away
The remnants of yesterday
The water colored sky
Reaches out to the dripping wet leaves
With a promise of the
Sun kissed happy times that lie ahead
The smell of the wet earth
Brings back memories of
Unknown times that
Makes the green heart nostalgic.
The rain drenched birds
Wait in anticipation
To spread their wings and float away
To lands of dreams and music.
Creation drifts from one moment
To another..
With memories of the past
Ingrained in the future
Waiting for me to join them…

In Silence

You came in stepping lightly,
Hidden from all.
Softly treading like the night and
Covered my sky in a quite somber color.
Nothing like what one can expect the hue to be

You came in with the air
Just a whiff of intoxicating fragrance
Dissolving my existence
In the eternal stream
Of the river of light so bright

I never asked
How long will you stay in here
In the garden of bliss
Or what is our destination
For I lived for the journey
As long as it lasts

Rains

I live to love this rain,
To let it wash over my eyes
To mingle my dreams
With those of a million others
To take to a land of hopes and aspirations
Where islands meet
To create continents
That know no boundaries.
Dreams that mingle together
To sing the song of the heart-
Strong and loud,
With the lilting tune of the falling rain
Singing of all the dreams
Dreamt by millions and lived by millions.
The thunder drums awaken me to realize
I am one with a million others in a certain way
Who have had the same dream
Who have loved the same rain
That washed their dreams away…