Insights that Excites

The cloud is filled with so much love Why is there such jarring pain in the thunder! The eyes that are filled with so much laughter Why are there so many tears in them! The wind is filled with such fragrance Why is there the biting cold in its flow! The heart that is so light and merry Why is there the burden of lost hope! The ocean that is filled with such unending energy Why is there the threat of all encompassing destruction! The sky that engulfs the universe in the warm blue embrace Is there peace in there somewhere in its eternity?

The skys cry out.. In need of a small smile In those eyes filled with hope In the rainbow of lights The heavens reach down.. To you and me In a silent prayer to believe In that heart to fill it to the brim In the mystery of human faults The clouds cast a shadow.. For you and me To rest a while To catch up with the fleeting flock of birds To come home before dark The world reaches out to you and me..

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.

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 …

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.

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 !!

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…