Loneliness

Sorrow is greatest

Not when eyes pour forth

A flood of crocodile tears

But when a little drop

Loath to leave its shelter

Hangs on to the lashes

Glittering like a little diamond

Life is loneliest

Not when you sit all alone

And think a million thoughts

But when one harsh word

Cuts you off from the world

Hurting those you love best

And leaves you in black despair.

Oh ! My Shadow

I walk in shade
Trying to hide my shadow
But every corner i turn
There's a light burning
To expose me to myself
In this long,lonely lane
So brightly illuminated !

Many a times
I tried to touch these lamps
But always, to my disappointment
They are touching the sky
And at this moment
I wish, I could reach the sky !

I look around myself
Hoping to find a stone
But,adding one more
to my disappointments
I find no stones
to break these lamps !

Illuminating this long
lonely lane
Making it so bright
To stop me
to hide my shadows !

A Ray of Hope

The nights have seen me sleepless
But I have seen the spring die
Brutally.

I have seen summers on fire with pain
And autumns pathetic
With wounds that bleed.

I have risen in rebellion against winters
That seemed cold
With bitterness.

I have risen with the dawn,walked,
Head held high,to meet
The morning.

Aeons, it seems, but yet your memory
And the brooding of wrongs
Can cut like a knife.
And I have struggled but not died.

Yes,the nights have seen me struggling
But I have seen the spring die
Brutally.

Sunset

The evening rest now
while the sun sets
red and orange skies slowly
make way
for dusky shades
of the coming night.

But,
it is the twilight
that I sleek
and it eludes me
with its iridescence.

The swallows and
herons and egrets
have all gone
for the day.

But even as the
one - eyed crow
fumbles above in vain
for the last greedy morsel.

And the firmament is pierced
with one lone pale star
I know that
the twilight has gone by
which I long searched for.

Love !

Love is like
arsenic (the poison
which never leaves the body)
Even after the most most intense
fight
the bitterest quarrel
the dense hatred
the germs of love
never leave one's mind.

The relationship
never
ends even after the final parting
instead of the end
the parting
becomes
one more beginning. 

Dream

Dream is after all
A Bubble of soap
Which will burst into
thousands of
beautiful fragments
if you done to clasp it

Dream never dies
never dream of past
which is dead and gone
never dream of future
which is yet to come

Dream brings joys
and sorrows
dream brings you
to unseen world
dream is after all
a bubble of soap.