Look up
See yourself
How can you not fall in love
Every time?
How can you not…
I live happiest
In your thoughts of me
In your prayers for me
In your words
In your laughter
In your mind
Where you make me
Who I have always wanted to be
There
I live happiest in your thoughts of me
Just a little longer
Slow down my dear soul
Learn to slowly sip the wine
Let it burn as it goes down
Let it take it’s own sweet time
Slow down my dear heart
Fall in love and fall real hard
Then sit still and slowly break
Gently touch each jagged shard
Slow down my dear mind
In your rush to win each war
Learn to savor each drop you bleed
Win at home, don’t go far
Let me sit in the fire more
And slowly get a little stronger
Let me learn to give time more time
And be still, a little longer
No other
A sip to remember
A sip to forget
Pour me one more
No regret
I have tasted the best
And no other is same
I keep drinking and hoping
To get drunk again
Green
In the radiance of green
Hides the hint of the gold
What is young right now
Hides the hint of the old
In the clear blue skies
Floats one gentle cloud
Against the brilliant laughing blues
The tears wear a shroud
In the still waters of time
Flow the rivers of age
In the mirror’s reflection
Hides the perfect sage
In the thunder of silence
Are the answers to my why
We gaze intently at each other
My mirror and I
We Sit Together
We sit together
My grief and I
Stare into the flames
Of how and why
Stoke the fire
With a stick of could haves
Fan it some more
With all the should haves
–
We sit together
My maker and I
My thirst unquenched
My soul is dry
He mends my cracks
With love mixed in gold
I am drunk again
And again I am bold
–
We sit together
The moon and I
The silence comes
And sits nearby
The rain is gentle
And the night is long
The dance of a sigh
To the eternal song
The last
The last rays of sun
Kiss the gentle waves good night
The last tears of love
Make the silence feel all right
Silence speaks
If silence is whole
And complete in itself
Why do I hear it
Like the fires of hell
If silence is still
And forever unchanging
Why does it feel
Like the galaxies racing
If silence is noble
Like the wisdom of age
Why does it fool me
By showing its rage
If silence is quiet
Like the midnight sea
Why does it speak
So loudly to me
–
Maybe silence is lost
Just as I am, in myself
It eludes, not just me
But its very own self
Every time
Every single time the night falls
A sun rises to show me the light
Every time the heart grows weary
A friend comes by and makes it right
–
Every time when I wander astray
Someone brings me back with a whirl
Every time I descend into darkness
I seem to come back with another pearl
–
In the ups and downs of this ride
Each crest is laden with such pleasure
But the real quest lies in the abyss
Where every time I find a new treasure
And I dance
The road to paradise
Must pass through the abyss
I dance with abandon
Meet the colors I must kiss
I whirl with the colors
I am all that there is
And if I get lost in the noise
The silence holds a promise
तू इश्क़ तो कर
जब आदत हो मैख़ाने की
गंगा घाट पे शक़ तो होगा ना
जब आदत हो वीराने की
महफ़िल में ज़ुल्म तो होगा ना
यूँ ही थम जा और बैठ ज़रा
हर आदत को बेग़ाना कर
कुछ अपनी कह कुछ मेरी सुन
बेहासिल ही सही…तू इश्क़ तो कर
Good-bye
Someone please stop the falling of sand
Through the cruel hourglass of time
Hold the winds and silence the waves
Make this pause only mine
I have to remember so many
People, places, smells and sights
Taste of salt in the air I breathed
All of my living and it’s many delights
Remember my love
Enduring and sweet
How the lamp shone through
Morning’s fog on my street
Remember the family
that my blood bound
And the one just as precious
That the soul found
I don’t want to take anything with me
I travel light as you can see
Let me linger just a breath or two more
To say my good-bye and set you free
Nothing special and yet
The reds and golds on brilliant display
The sky ablaze with little disdain
The untiring whirling of the earth
The sun lays down for the moon again
–
Fill my cup with old wine and silence
Mark this day so I won’t ever forget
Hopes and dreams and laughter
No, today is nothing special, and yet…
New and old
The day is new
But the air is as old as time
The ray is new
But the sun is as old as time
The loss is new
But the grieving is as old as time
The wish is new
But the longing is as old as time
Speak
You speak silence with such fervor
I stand rooted….rendered speechless
Elusive Silence 