INNOCENT

I’m concerned for you
Friend dearest.
For you to be left alone
In the world so vile
Such innocence that you harbor
May not sustain you much longer.
When the old faces fades
Who shall keep you in company?
Men have duties, women are bonded
you so single shall be left so lonely.
Shy to faces you know not whom
Shy to words you know so well.
I wish I never knew you child
your plight, it makes my heart so frail!

HOPE

Beloved stranger,
So I call you.
No longer friend or foe.
I hear you when you me from afar
And speak my words from you heart!
That’s vibrations, which binds
hearts, fond, fonder, fondest.
I believed and revelled in the ‘prophesy’.
You spoke of rains, which drenched your youth
and of the love you lost for naught.
Together we shed tears for things bygone.
Together we smiled on our fruitful gains.
Tears were salty and smiles were sweet.
Times passed by and times to come.
Give you word to keep this bond
unto grave, this silent lore.
Promises made are made to break
So you broke, and broke my heart.
Left me lone without a word, a
breezy note, out in cold, beloved foe!
Come again if you may, for
my heart still sings the songs you taught.
My eyes still bear the dreams you sowed.
My lips still crave for the thousand kisses
My fingers seek their counterparts
Beloved stranger if ever come you may
Seek me beneath the bed of flowers
White for lilies and red for roses.
Here I keep my soul for you
Just in case, for want of a kiss!Or if you still fly in far off lands,
So be it, so be it,
its all right with me!

SACRIFICE
Our love my dear
is meant not for me
nor for you.
Leave it to the world
and be happy!

NOTHING
I oft wondered
what made you
so beloved to me.
Now I realise,
it is your non existence.

Why should you marry (and shouldn’t):Indian context

A man is perfect in himself
Unlike women
That he need not marry
So says my friend, single, whole.

But I was for marriage
I argued on the sense of belonging
And he blamed me for
Being an ordinary country lass1

Why does one marry I wondered
Confused, how does two aliens
Be companions for life and
Entwine their bodies in fondness! (to be contd.)

LOVE

I walk through roads
which leads to many a countries.
I am welcomed everywhere
No matter where I go.
I have a perpetual smile on my face
that mesmerizes even a ruffian.
Given a chance I permeate anything
and everything, animate or inanimate.
And kindles a glow that I alone can
and imparts eternal beauty.
I make hearts grow fonder
and imparts sweet pain in isolation.
I am beautiful, handsome and tall in one
And once you get to know me, you never forget me.
But when you get too much of me into head
idiots you become and happily walk to gallows for nothing.
Corrupt me not with the malice of carnal lust,
I am great when pure as lily.
Smite me not, for once smitten
I leave forever, leaving you in agony lifelong.

Solitary

It is a bliss to be alone
Chasing one’s own fancies,
Loving weird things and persons,
dreaming unlimited unhindered.

Solitude is,
emptiness in a cozy cocoon
a glossy mirror, a sweet void;
which reflects us back,
echoes our own sound to us
from eternity to eternity.

Not a single leaf wafts unsolicited,
nor a drop of rain wasted.
Lonely moments are always fruitful
rich and lovely, virgin blossom!

Bring not in a ray of sun
A gleam of moonlight
A lovely woman nor
A note of music!

Leave me unto me my peace
I am happily wedded to my mate
Let it be so until I die.
Loneliness and me
Oh! What a pair we make.