The Homecoming

To a bird,

Limitless sky becomes a limit.

The unbounded binds him.

For he has no choice but to fly.

He roves around and sometimes gets lost.

Often, he drifts away from home and yet drifts in search of a home.

Sky has got no demarcation;

He flutters out of frustration.

Creating his own limits, he flies away, all way back to his home, the only home.

And he realises that’s where he belongs.

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I wish for us this homecoming too; someday, from somewhere.

Home is a feeling for ever,

Let us move together;

Because dear, it’s better late than never!

Not so long ago….

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The door I used to knock not so long ago,

Now laid as a block in my way.

With an unlocked lock, it strived to stand – lifelessly.

For its soul was gone, who doted on it selflessly.

No warm welcomes were there,

Cause she wasn’t here;

To greet with serene smiles and dozens of wrinkled curves.

No more of specks of love sparkled in doddery eyes,

As if the stars stopped shining in the moonless skies.

Sundays wouldn’t be any fun,

Neither would I ramble from room to room.

Nor could I scatter my stuff on the floor.

And…. nothing can be done.

Except for two of us to stand and stare at one another,

With tearful eyes missing our grandmother.

The door I used to knock not so long ago,

Was locked for a long time to go.🍃

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Cosmos

As I walk down the road, I see those flocks of feathers flying high ,up in the lilac sky and my feet begin to feel fettered.

With each and every heavy step, I’m moved for I scuff lifelessly; my heart throbbing and thumping being the only sensation that doesn’t let me drift away into epilepsy.🥀

The big hand tickers perpetually & keeps swiftly surpassing the little one all over again but the time seems to stand still as every tick- tock hits my head hard.🕣

Amidst the cosmos, the cars hurtle by honking and men go gibbering.

Wide-eyed, I, can see nothing but the achromatic sky enshrouded by canescent clouds.🌫️

With my eyes starkly staring at them, faces and fracas fade away.

The clouds break drawing the downpour and fall down all over me sinking into my shivery  soul.🌨️

At long last, cessation of thundering rain bestows an ambrosial rainbow imbuing all with shades of life.🌈

And that’s when, I fancied the evanescence of hush and haze as I was being untethered.

I was springing back to myself, for the first time.🍃

The Undiscoverable

I wish to be like the relics.

Holding heap of mysteries in bricks of their concrete pillars and walls;

Covering chronicles of glory and agony,

For they’ve seen slain and slaughter

And been through laughter and pain.

Even if the minutest nooks be explored , whole of it can not be toured.

You can get just a gist of it

They can tell you a tinge of it

Cos they still carry something undiscovered just within themselves that you’ll never know. 🍃

Veracious Eyes

​When you look into my eyes,

I want you to see that the mascara in them is a mere facade.

For it doesn’t let you know how many slashes these eyes have strewed with their swarming streams.

It doesn’t let you picture colour  of the scars they’ve witnessed, darker than its charcoal black.

It doesn’t let you fathom the darkest stories that they try to narrate.

It doesn’t let you dig into the deep & blue secrets of these hazel eyes.

It doesn’t tell you how they wish to see your shimmering soul through them.❤️

Strive to Survive

When all the hopes are lost
There’s nothing, but gloom;

And you can smile at no cost.
When warm smiles
Are turned into frown

All around is sorrow

And it just turns you down.
When you see no lucid light,

Neither any blooming beam;

And with no sword, the battle you fight.
When you find no reason to live,
All shattered,all miffed;

You keep no grudges, but just forgive

When there’s no one by your side
Barely surviving;

All anxieties you’ve to hide.
When you feel nothing inside
Cause, so much it felt

That those tears have dried
But!

When you lose all belief in fate

The Lord opens some new gate!
And then you realise,

Being strong is a need;

Can never be a choice

Scars stayed; but it doesn’t bleed
So, that’s when you learn –

After every dusk, there’s dawn
With every sunrise,darkness is gone
If there’s hell, there’s a heaven

And life thrives even in the barren.

Cries of clouds

What do you all grey clouds in the blue sky do?

Rebelling? Weeping? Screaming?

Are you thundering with such wrath against your unrealized dreams and aspirations? Because you think fate didn’t treat you fairly.

Or are you pouring it all upon the mother Earth that you had held  within for so long? Perhaps you’re confiding in her.

Or maybe, you just repent for being disastrously driven with desires.

Are you crying your hearts out for the mercy of Jehovah?

​What do you all grey clouds in the blue sky do? Tell me, I want to know.

Crestfallen

  

It was just another night,

With the clear sky and room full of moon light ,

Windows were open, and so were my eyes;

Looking at the floor, staring at the roof

Thinking of if’s, but’s, how’s and why’s

Wind was blowing, curtains waving

Everything seemed so still But what for,

silly mind was craving

Full of regrets for past and fears for future

Not sure about the present, I was slacking.

Oh! Maybe the peace was lacking…..

Oh! Maybe the peace was lacking…..

The more I thought, the more rue it brought!

Tangled in the thoughts, I kept on thinking

Until the mind got stuck and heart started sinking.

Soon, I could feel those wet eye lashes

It seemed so blank; for numbness was back within flashes.

I was full of sorrow and gloom

All alone in the empty room;

This despair could only deter

No one but me, could make it better.

So, it was all fine as I hugged my pillow tight

Now eyes couldn’t cry; cause it was just another night.