In the valley of heart

In the valley of heart

And pastures green

Glows a flower with all its sheen

Yellow and ochre golden brown

Fragrant smile for every frown

It laughs its way like a child

And makes the fiery anger mild

With twinkle of hope for the world so dark

And harks for dreams that lie so stark

Shattered and crumbled, pieces apart

It builds its edifice in my heart. 

The edifice of new hope

Against all odds

You want to stand against all odds?

See if you can muster the support

All who are evens.

The evens are few

The odds are all over the pews

To clamour around you all clapping.

Clapping they do, with all their heart

To see you going be damned and doomed.

Stand if you can, muster the courage

Against all the odds,

Of the men and women

Of the men and women

]Who were born to bleed

At the altar of sacrifice

Born to die, with a happy heart

A few make way into the history books

The rest of others, their story is a mystery.

The words their heart bore

Were the words of force,

Seen by none

Heard by some

Believed by one,

The words they know

Were turned into a flaw

and there they lived as heroes

Who meet their tragic end

With a bold smile

That graced their face.

The words were the laws

The laws of their lives

Outlive they couldn’t

Over live they shouldn’t

They were born as heroes

To die as heroes,

Unknown unsung

Not to be remembered at all.

Not even by their children.

The Statue of Liberty

The statue of Liberty

The wind touched,

Softly and gently

The touch was tender

To blow the dust

Off her feet,

The softness took away all the weariness

And carried her away

To the land of dreams

The fairness of fairies

Cheered her loud

Clamoured her in

The sleep came softly

Settled on her chin

She had walked a long way off                                                  

 to reach this place

Where her fears had vanished

Where her fright was replaced with smile

Her lips had taken as a token of delight.

I have seen her emerging

As statue of liberty

Freedom for one and freedom for all

To hold the torch of liberty

for the generations to come.

Her feet stuck to the place and melted sand                         

 into stone for her foundation.

Lying down

Lying down, I cannot take,

I cannot take what I hate,

I hate to take the path un-trodden

Haunted with fright and sued by fear.

I hate to take the lost winds

The storms that cease to exist

The sand that stops to resist

Desists and resists from all footprints

Footprints of history and marks of mystery.

I cannot take lying down all.

The loss, the gain are shorter words

Hold no more but a temporal sway.

Yet I cannot take them all,

All lying down, in your way.

Disbelief raises winds of distrust

That blows the mind the mind that permits,

the logic prevail

And there sails

The ship of faith

Faith in the muscles

Faith in the arms

Faith in the mind

That sees no harms.

Lying down, I cannot take

What my faith cannot make

I hate to be mowed

To be muzzled and suppressed

To be pushed and recessed

Of life of despair and depressed

I stand afoot, and try to shake

To shake loose the shackles of fear

The chains of lies, that binds me to treachery

treachery of time that holds no more.

I shake in the wind

And air my mast

And my stake on it cast

Fling open the sail

To the wind fast.

Ah, I cannot take lying down

The destination’s call

Adieu, I bid, I bid to all.

What if

What, if the stars don’t shine so bright

What, if the lines on the palm not so clear

What, if the soul is haunted with some fear

What, if they say that right is not right

What, if the winds not waning your way

What, if they say, the day, not your day

Test your wings, and test their might

Hold your breath before your flight

Test your faith you have in your word

‘Got your nod?  You are ready as a bird

See if you ply, with the drive

You can fly, fly and fly; high and high

Cast your wings and flap them fast

Touch your height higher than the mast

You don’t have a moment to let it rot

Time is yours it makes your lot

Wind is yours, yours is the sky

Yours are the stars above and high.

The sun and the moon that shine so bright

Morning and evening, the starlit night.

TAKING IT CASUALLY

TAKING IT CASUALLY

Signing your name

carelessly ending in a the stroke of your pen

how casual were your steps

that walked out after declaring

all null and void

the only string of relation

that held us in a knot

not so nuptial

for such long years.

you did not bother

to look at the eyes

soared from crying

voice that was choked

from a night long sobbing

the tremor in the hands

caused by the strained string

I tried in vain to hold it all

but you did let

slip it all

causing me fall

into oblivion

and you walked holding your head high

You won the game.

TOGETHER

TOGETHER

Do you remember?

I remember too

Having seen you

Sitting in the farthest corner of the world

Under a tree

That had no leaf,

No shade

But a tree

Sitting in the sun

I saw you

Looking at the shadow

Of your hands

Trying to tuck your feet in the shade

To save your soles

From the burns

The parched earth could make

The perspiration on your brows

Was the only moisture

You could find

-How unfriendly has been the world?

I saw you whispering to winds

The words were echoed

Echoed, re-echoed

As I breathed them

The deep breath was cooling

I found my way.

There I was standing near you

Holding out hand

The hand that asked for the grasp

You eyes asked-

Could you?

The language of eyes reassured all 

and we walked into the world of loneliness.

Together!

Walk On

Walk On

Walk if you must, walk alone

When the path is unbroken,

un-trodden, unpaved, unrevealed

When the wind blows cold with hung dusty haze

Do not shudder, nor falter, nor faze

Gather your courage, and nourish your craze

Open the door and leave the shore

The wind is yours, so is the air

Starry sky is all to share

Yours the stars that shines so bright

Touching your heart the warmth of their light

The crickets sing your victory song

Fiery bugs keep your company long

Walk alone even when others fall out

If you have faith and have doubt.

Care neither for cheers nor for awards

Success itself is the biggest reward

Steps you take will make your way

Shake your fears and push them away.

Smell the wind and feel the change

And see the taste of beauty in the range.

Walk you must when the others fail

They will surely keep your trail.

Of Gaping Generation

Of Gaping Generation

Of the first defiance and deed of the child

That looks to her mother tiny and mild

Carries the seed of the change in the order

Change in the Nature a change in border

Between the young and that of old

‘you cannot buy back what you’ve sold’

The right of your property, right of your right

Right of your ideas, right of your might

They call it sharing

Sharing or shearing

Age makes difference

Up goes the plate with the name of the son

Down goes the one with the father’s name.

The house is the same

The rooms made the difference.

Territory is lost by the father to his son

Who regales his friends with laughter abound

The dwarfed father goes underground

He sulks in the corner like

Sulking and cursing and counting his days.

Call it what you may,

Gaping generation?