Category: Poems

The emerald stairway,

Leads nowhere that is seen

Count each step,

A thousand two hundred and seventeen.

The attic high above,

Holds up the roof

Dusty boxes with memories,

The only remaining proof.

Crumbling papers

Line the shelves

The smell of old books

The only tales left to tell

No matter how many come in

There’s always room for more

You’ll never feel alone-

In fact, it’s better than before.

Welcome to the Empire

The unfailingly unflawed place to be

But look closely and you will find

Often everything is not as you see.

Some words though not spoken are heard

Said with love

Bring hurt

Selfless yet selfish?

Labels of the world

Even if silent is the story

It will be heard

Status and stature

Our ways our absurd

Timeless but mortal

A future made from the past

A Lifetime of worries

That we still surpass

And each end is a new beginning

The new is in the old

There is some truth

In the lies that are told

I am India,

I am a voice

I am India,

Where I get a choice

I am India,

Where my vernacular diversity shines

I am India,

The sign of changing times

Yet,

I am India,

Where it is this diversity that divides me

I am India,

Where am I really free?

For the infanticide,

Lies and bribes,

Women’s rights

And caste plights

Have left me

Like crumbling pieces of paper

Withering away with time

A self destruct mode

Where only ashes are left behind

The venom takes not long to spread

A single touch and then you’re dead

Exposed you were to the world

And in return the pictures swirled

The black and blue that crossed your eyes

As your life then flew by

But the venom’s not for protections sake

It’s the world’s most worthless mistake

For it is not the poison of Medusa’s snakes

But the ways of the Human Race

The good guys and the bad guys are no longer different

The war has changed us, left us imprisoned

We stay silent as the tide starts to turn

And we’re soon submerged, a point of no return

The looped lapse of time

Continues running by

And we make the same mistake

The last shreds of night lay nigh

The last shreds of night lay nigh

My eyes start to sink

In the exotic shades of pink

The flowers of the cherry blossom tree

Seemed to be idyllic for eternity

That moment as it waved in the breeze

A whisper of felicity

We are burning flames

On the hearth of life

One wrong move

And the fire slowly dies

Hostages to time

No control on the lapse of lives

Run a marathon

At the speed of light

But one day we’ll run out of time

One day, it’ll all go away

The mosaic of life, disrupted by time

In the darkness, we lose our ways

Blanketed with dread

Far from comfort

We’d rather freeze in the cold

Reality, reality

But I’d rather have lies told

A complex labyrinth of lies

Its roots dug deep in time

One leading to another

No end is seen

5 lies and another 15

Intertwined they start to grow

You can’t stop now

You should have known

They’re not so small anymore

You’re walking through a deceptive door.

And now you’re stuck in the maze

It’s left you in an eternal daze

Time and time again you lie

Now, even you don’t know why

And one day, you will pay

For there has been too much delay.

A galaxy

A universe

A world

One greatly diverse

The  turquoise lakes beneath the lush trees

Brittle voices in the breeze

Sand like gold beneath my feet

The vast sun’s spreading heat

Cotton clouds

Of huge crowds

A pink sky with faded blue

Fireworks for me and you

There has been war

Hearts have been torn

Lives have been lost

We have faced the cost

Of the countless mistakes we made

Blood drips crimson down each blade

But no man can be completely pure

That is what the world must endure

That no one can be crystal clear

The stream of life is built on tears

Gushing down the lane of time

This is the truth of all life.