An aspect of God, a boy born Brahmin
Had ascended into his higher power,
It was then in a late hour during slumber,
He remembered how his karma was even.
He awakened in him an intuition, long ago,
Then he later met a woman, he felt a spark.
But he questioned how she's awake at dark.
She wandered wherever her ego would go.
He was the only one who could perceive her,
As everyone at times seems to ignore them,
As if she can appear, disappear on a whim.
He realized she's a ghost and projector.
He decided to slowly heal her lost soul,
As she constantly spiralled into memories,
As she projected on loop her stories.
He blessed her to find peace, pay her toll.
But over time they had together, he fell.
The God wanted to spend forever with her,
Patiently waits for her to move on further.
She healed; God rang their wedding bell.
Pond of utter stillness
Placid pool of calm
Tasteless touchless tranquility
Self-less senseless serenity
All attachments are left at the gate
All disturbances desires and egoisms
All thoughts delusions ignorance and dualities
All hatred envy greed and aversion
All suffering extinguished and blown out
All rebirth ended
Pure consciousness pure intuitive silence
Pure consciousness beyond all forms
Pure consciousness infinite ocean of no-self
Pure consciousness transcending cause and effect
Pure consciousness pure motionless water
Pure pond of utter stillness
Pure nirvana
Pure ocean of utter bliss
Oh Sweet Ganesha riding on an adorable mouse,
Please let me and my love who is my soon or later to-be spouse
Miraculously have jobs and money enough to buy a house.
Born in a time all are at their most divided,
A young lady eventually for herself decided
To live life pursuing all religions which guided
All humans in ways in which Truth resided.
She found love first in one who is farsighted,
Yet he is shortsighted due to a strict religion.
He held a distance, so this love had ended,
He was also too lenient about his every sin.
She then went with one who is so atheistic,
Yet he often took what she did for granted.
She found his attitude became so apathetic,
So she left what once made her enchanted.
She finally found one who truly understands
What the cycles of eternity truly mean.
They see how in all lives, they held hands,
"He's just right," as he crowns her his queen.
Once mislead by a cowardly snake impostor
Who only beared name of your possessor.
When you told me you have his spirit within,
I realized that for you the veil is so thin.
"Now you have the real Nagaraj, within me."
And that confirmed Shiva is also with me.
For they say when I meet the serpent king,
It means Shiva is near me, always helping.
I fondly wondered if Nagaraj has a wife,
And it makes me think: in every previous life,
You and I are simply reincarnating deities,
I follow you throughout all of the eternities.
I learned his wife's name is Nagalakshmi.
My own birth name means "of the sea,"
Matches her being embodiment of ocean.
Indeed, I am your poison's antidotal potion.
Fill me with your healing light, Lord Vishnu,
Please heal my dearly precious beloved too
Of all his insecurities, worries, and doubt,
Prove to him it is him I cannot live without.
Fill me with an inner knowing, my Lord,
Let my knowledge be a metaphorical sword
Protecting the love I long ago had sworn
To be my path in which I am never forlorn.
Fill me with your eternal grace, Madhava,
So I may live accordingly to your divine law
As well as learn to love my dear more,
While our souls meet in every lifelong lore.
Fill me with divine love, oh Supreme One,
Help us love even after our lives are done.
Bless me with your eternally divine presence,
As I ascend and learn of your true essence.
Whenever I see a crescent moon phase,
I picture the crescent crowned on His hair,
For He clears my mind when it is in a haze,
As I chant to Him, Mahadev who's so fair.
Whenever I see the big open blue sky,
I picture the beautiful blue hue of His skin,
For when He appears I'll know it is not a lie,
As I chant, I shall recall my divinity within.
Whenever I see a deep and very still lake,
I picture Him in His ascetic state meditating,
For He has the deepest mind for our sake,
As I chant to Him, I too begin ascending.
Whenever I see anyone's genuine smile,
I picture Him and His serenely content face,
For He brings me joy for longer than a while.
As I chant, I see life's something to embrace.
At the bottom of our garden
there's a wayward wandering Jew
but I have yet to spot
a crawling Christian or dot a hiking Hindu
I'm adding to the landscape
if it takes me all week
going in steadfast search of
a meandering Moslem or a sauntering Sikh
yet as no rockery looks good without
and planting both who could really resist
for the ladybirds bees and butterflies
a creeping Catholic and a bustling Buddhist
Finally, I found the final love of my life.
He is calm even when we have some strife.
He makes me smile through every call.
He tells me how I'll make it through it all.
He gives me true unconditional love,
Because his soul knows we are from Above.
He is a balance of the good traits they had.
He talks things through when we are mad.
He is the culmination of what I was seeking.
He is my mirror with a role in my awakening.
He is my swami, poet, musician, IT.
He is truly the only one I want to see.
He is giving me back all of what I had lost:
Someone to talk to without any risk or cost.
He is mine forever because I know long ago,
In a past life, I promised to never let him go.
You may argue I might argue
Truth is laughing at corner
Unshaken unbothered
The Unnegotiable
You web words, I refute
I web words, you refute
Detached and immovable
The Unnegotiable
I pretend to listen
I know you pretend to listen
Beyond realms of words
The Unnegotiable
You love your truth
I love to prove how it is not
We negotiate in circles
The Unnegotiable
She intuitively knew she had to come here
This town that just happens to be so near
To the one who bears his heart oh so clear,
After meeting, promised to never disappear.
Waited upon a metaphorical mountain peak,
Living in her truth her heart will always seek.
He came to her when future seemed bleak,
"You deserve better," kissing her cheek.
"I only desire you," she whispered softly
Into his ear as she held him so tenderly.
Her devotion had moved him emotionally,
As he fought his sense of temptation silently.
Eventually, he embraced her ever closer,
The energies of their souls evolved further,
As their love soon made everything better.
Never again would they lose each other.
Can I teach you my ways of leela?
I hope we share fun and meaningful times.
Can you teach me how to do yoga?
I hope our united Kundalini energy climbs.
Can I tell you stories of my childhood?
I hope you never feel the need to judge.
Can you tell me memories bad and good?
I hope you and I shall never bear a grudge.
Can I trust you with my so wounded heart?
I hope you still have the heart to truly trust.
Can I show you all my love even when apart?
I hope you know I learnt how to be more just.
Can I express my love in poem after poem?
I hope even if we part, someday you'll recall
All moments and talks, wherever you roam,
I hope you realize our love is not small at all.
I thought I am more alike to Mother Kali,
A lone warrior, so powerful and pretty.
But with you I realize I am your Lakshmi,
A goddess of tenderness and prosperity.
I thought I'd never find someone like Vishnu,
But you're named after an Avatar of him too,
And your strength helps me follow through
All of the good changes I now want to do.
I thought I'd never find love that feels divine,
A love in which I feel one is simply all mine.
Now I've found you, everything falls into line.
Now I finally feel that life is more than fine.
I thought I would always remain alone,
Until you told how quickly love has grown.
You made real my wishes you hadn't known,
So I'll be the bestest love to you ever shown.
I reincarnated a few years after you,
Because I needed more time to go through
Learning how beliefs I was taught won't do.
I learned how to be more like you too.
I reincarnated to remind you what we are,
For our eternal love is brighter than any star,
And what we have is why I feel we'll go far.
I learned how to truly love and never scar.
I reincarnated into a life full of signs of you,
Signs preluding sacred love that was due,
Signs pointing to a religion that is most true.
I learned how I am meant to be a Hindu.
I reincarnated with my natural gift of poetry,
My poems, even before you, are a prophecy
Of how we have always been meant to be.
I learned it is you who will forever love me.
We were each once a stranger to each other,
Till we sensed how we were together before.
I wouldn't mind if it is you and I truly forever,
Because I know you long for us to be better.
We are what our hearts used to hunger for.
We were waiting till we found the same door.
We are each other's reason why we soar
Even through what makes our hearts sore.
We were always meant to meet one another,
As part of the plan we gather knowledge for.
We are fated to bring best of us to the fore,
For the sake of our spiritual evolution's lore.
We knew each other in shared lives before,
Soulbound because at every end we swore
To never lose the love that we always adore.
Our love shall never be something we ignore.
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