Friday, September 23, 2016

Faith

Faith

I have often walked down this path before
When I dunno why I’m made to lose my faith some more
For a devotee, its easy to believe
But I’m slipping through my own fingers, it’s hard for me

Will my words save this crumpled zeal of mine, Or will I come across this same feeling of hanging by a line
Where I try to keep within my sanity
And it seems too absurd for simple humanity

Is all my strength just a lame charade
Am I a disguised member of the strugglers parade
Every tear I cry, won’t answer me why
I’m back down to praying for the same to thy

To think I ran away and I came this far
Just to stay up one more night without counting a star
And my woe it seemed to have followed me
In my head a secret fear of losing loved one or family

A wanderer free I got chained again
N the gods they laughed on me, the ones I blamed again
For I know not where I need to go
As I find myself stuck in the same painful place I was before

Free my hopeless soul, you are called Almighty
Why can’t the shopping bags give me the promised therapy
Like the billion odd who seem to fix their misery
Why cant the riches give my emotions wings
Why cant I find solace in the planets petty things

Its not so good to be aware that much
Its even worse to acknowledge the naked truth as such
Yet in both ways I err more than fair
Every way I see it I’ve got the shorter side of the square

Coz I’m tuned in more and I am armored less
N I’ve discovered too much in to life’s soulful emptiness
Now I wont take a bribe or go for the ride
I’ve often walked this path from every side

So I sit back here in the dark of the night
N I cry my same old cry half in pain and half in fright
Take me across oh guardian of the ticking clock
Carry me to the morning I’m too weak to walk

Sing me a lullaby and calm my rapid beat
God you conquered me long ago, stop beating my retreat.




Monday, November 23, 2015

So Petty, So Petty

So petty are the games people play
In the hope that they'd prove a point
So petty are the lies people talk
So lame are the reasons they appoint

So short is this time on earth that we have
to waste with a lie and a plot
Yet the fact remains over thousands of years
There are those who will let their minds rot

Not that they will achieve anything great
They'd lay whimpering in their own acts
For the circle of life, is a circle complete
Nature is driven not by story but facts

So i awake each morning amused at the world
surprised at the collective need to fail
But everyone has an excuse for it
corporate, civilised, way of the world, let it previal..


- written for the office politics of 2012 posted 3 years later when i was clearing out the old paper..

Friday, January 2, 2015

My Monsoon Wedding

I married you on a day in August
there was no music or lights
I remember that wet green august day
We married inspite of our many fights

I married you one day in August
You complained the humidity was high
so we drove on to the mountain tops
and saw two rainbows in the sky

I love the day I married you
We were two people without a plan
No glamour, no ritual, no occasion, no one
Just 2 fools stumbling on bliss hand in hand

I look back at that week day in august
and laugh at our seven years of banter and din
We had no clue what a gift we were giving ourselves
when we listened to that honest voice from deep within

- 29th Sept. 2014

Monday, December 29, 2014

The leaf

The leaf of a book, rarely sees light,
yet the leaf of a book lives on.
The leaf of a book won't wilt in winter,
the leaf stays when the author is gone

The leaf of a book can tear in a second
though it folds on its favourite page
The leaf holds dreams that can beckon
though it grows yellow with age

The leaf of a book can tell you are asleep
it will flutter past and close without wind
The leaf can hold a moment so deep
it hides the picture you safe-guarded within

The leaf of a book is beyond your life
it marks the day you are born and when you'll die
The leaf of a book records a man made history
you'll never know the truth no matter how you try

-
written in 2012, posted 30 dec 2014

Thursday, November 20, 2014

Disappoint Disappointment

Why are you so scared my lil one
So terrified of what awaits
Why do you remember the worst of your past
And not all the wonderful moments and dates

Why don’t recall the joy and fun
every 1st aug, the specialness we share
Don’t you want to kindle that untouched innocence
Build a new celebration, the lovely feeling of care

Do not think its a man who can make you happy
That is not true and every woman knows
But its her kin and kittens and sisters and mittens
That make her smile all through the woes

The rewards are endless, the joys are many
If you only learn how to see
that's the best part of life experience
In the end all go, you and me

To know how a wife feels
To know how a life feels
To know that its one milestone done
To know you are a mother
To know the care for another
To know how to push on when it doesn’t feel fun

And what will you achieve
Alone and all stress free
Happy running errands for every other being
There will be no pride, how will you hide

Your cowardice from dreaming

(this was an appeal to the spinsterhood champions of digital age - Raika Gazder)

Sunday, April 6, 2014

baby rhymes 1 - roses whisper gujrati version: Amyra Mari Jaan

Amyra Mari Jaan
tu suija ave
kale savaarna doodhu peeva
uthvanu che tane



Amyra Mari Jaan
tu suija ave
kale savaarna doodhu peeva
uthvanu che tane


Amyra Mari Jaan
tu mari mithi jaan
massage kari ne mummy
karavse tane nan nan

Amyra Mari Jaan
tu suija ave
kale savaarna doodhu peeva
uthvanu che tane


Amyra Mari Jaan

tu mari mithi jaan
daiper ma lagechtem
tame kidhuch kai ghan

Amyra Mari Jaan
tu suija ave
kale savaarna doodhu peeva
uthvanu che tane


Amyra Mari Jaan

mari mithi amyra
tu suija ave
mummy na khora ma


baby rhymes 1 - latest best friend

Who is Amyra's latest best friend
Who is Amyra's latest best friend
the sleepy sleepy fairy is her latest best friend
(to be repeated thrice when baby is sleepy)


Who is Amyra's latest best friend
Who is Amyra's latest best friend
the burpy burpy fairy is her latest best friend
(to be repeated thrice when baby needs to burp)



Who is Amyra's latest best friend
Who is Amyra's latest best friend
the gassy gassy fairy is her latest best friend
(to be repeated thrice when baby needs to fart out)