Heart and Mind

Wounded and defeated
Lying in the dirt
Soaked with sweat and blood
The heart tastes its salty tears
While the mind wanders
Around the battlefield
Assessing the loss...


The heart looks at the mind
Tear filled eyes apologize
'It's okay', the mind says
'You were just being you
Like I was being me.
Without our conflict
We'd have won'


'Not everything is gone'
The heart whispers
Shall we hope again
To fly to that terrain?
To work together,
To defeat one foe
At one time?'


The mind smiles
And blinks away
The moisture of pain.
'Yes, once again'
The Heart and The Mind,
Together they fly
Into the vermillion sky.

An Apology

I apologise, I reach out to you
Uncountable times,
To relish the music in your words
To remind myself how it feels
With the eyes closed...
I apologise, I hold on to you
When sanity flees,
To feel the steady strength
In those words of kindness,
Words that rekindle
The spark of my essence
I apologise...
I am not good enough,
Like the first cloud in the sky
Yet I dare to love you
Without knowing why.

To Destiny

Toxins infused into the veins
To corrode my sanity
Makes you glow with ebullience
Naïve Destiny...
When would you learn?
My soul is the epitome of resilience
My agony, my bliss aren't your identity
They belong to my freewill...
Tonight I bleed, I cry, I scream
Tomorrow I may be euphoric
But it shall be avenged a million fold
When I relearn to live, the way I love.
Your deceit is timed,
My soul is timeless...
The reasons to rejoice are countless.
Your toxins can’t corrode it
As the sane perception of irreversibility
Is non existent in this insane optimist...
Oh, when will you learn,
Naive Destiny?
What you haven't given
Is something you can't take.
Play around with everything else
Take me to the mountain peak
Push me into a bottomless abyss
I shall re-align with my essence
And forgive you, always.

Say Yes

Indifference kills love

It uproots it from its abode.

The soul wails in agony

Seeking the healing remedy.

The beholder sighs

Reading the pain laden eyes

Which believe in the dupery

That the cure to the misery

Is more of indifference

More of apathy.

If only the flame of love

Burnt long enough

It’d have been the gentle dove

Strewing the magic of peace

And the intensely hued bliss

Into the magnificent blue sky

Love, 'tis the enchanted prism

The colorless rays of gloom

Lose the battle within
And split into a vibrant spectrum.

Shall we believe in the prism
And thus ward off
The diabolical touch of indifference?

Sun-Kissed Love

Not the silvery beam of the waning Moon

I seek the golden thread of the majestic Sun

To weave my arras of love

Luna enchants, romances the psyche

He is the muse, the poetry, the light

He is the desire of a loving heart

But he changes, slowly

Sometimes seducing the crescent lover

Sometimes the orb lover…

I may love all his forms

But the night he abandons the sky

Who’d hold me when I cry?

Eyes look down in reverence

The sky brightens with his presence

The reason a bard believes in eternity,

A poet believes in vitality,

The Sun smiles, quietly nourishing the Earth

Keeping the promise of togetherness

If I cry on nights without the luna above

He'll keep me warm with his gentle embrace

And help me weave my arras of love.

Cryptic Love

This naive heart of mine,

The purest part of me

Gets lost in memories and musings

Why do I feel something ‘twixt us

When there is naught I canst see?

I know, thou aren’t mine to love

Still they pull me back, the shadows.

Lips have turned pale and dry

Yet the soul, carrying a dream, wanders

Across the seas, the hills and the meadows.

Thy eternal redolence lingers around

Guiding me to that pristine isle.

Serene as the first drops of dew

That kisseth the delicate foliage,

My love spreads till the last mile.

A promise forbids me to speak of it

Often the unspoken renders divine bliss

My love is true, ‘tis immortal

Hidden deep in the heart’s chambers

Naught shalt unveil it, not even the death kiss.

The Muse

Intense and overwhelming

Shaping my existence

Why do I love you?

For I am the insignificant pebble

That you roll between your fingers

And toss away into the air,

In a bout of amnesia.

Perhaps I know...

So does this pen I hold

It’s those eyes, those oceanic eyes.

Deep within their luminous light,
I see my unborn child.

Sky and Him

The azure canopy whispered
‘I know thy secret,
O how poorly tis veiled’
Eyes moist with longing
She looked  into the sky
‘I love him, like I love thee
His kind eyes soothe my heart
Like the kiss thou plant on earth
His laughter reminds me
How to breathe, to live
Like the essence of a warm hearth
And that subtle smile...
I fall in love with him,
Again and again
Just like the pious rain
Is loved by the arid terrain.’