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Forest of Lights



She stood with me in the sea of darkness until the lights came out; those shimmering orbs
Suddenly a forest of lights surrounded us; there were so many gleaming golden eyes
But even the lights did not compare to her fiery Kohl-lined eyes, as she bid goodbye
Her red sari fluttered in the wind as she sighed, her dark hair flew like a lost raven
I knew what awaited her; a lifetime of enclosed palace walls, and cold husbands
No more adventures, no mountain climbing or dancing, no waterfalls
And for me? A lifetime of stiff suitcases and ink-stamped papers
Of fluorescent-lit offices and disapproving fathers
Oh how I missed those moonlit nights in dark forests
Where even time froze, and gave us a taste of love
Those coloured skies, those love-drenched words
Now palace domes shone in the distance
As night suffocated us slowly
Held us in its black grip
We should have known
Should have seen
Our love was 
Doomed

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The Moon

Soaring and swooping through the trees was a dove,
As I lay on the grass and gazed up above,
The clouds in the sky; they were glistening snow, 
And the sun? A yellow ball being tossed to and fro,
And when night fell, I was still lying there,
(I was a lazy fellow, with time aplenty to spare),
The moon was high up, with a round milky glare,
It just glowered and scowled as it cried in despair,
“O white Moon,” I asked, “why the sad face?,
You have elegance and beauty, you have poise and grace!
You have an entire sky full of glittering stars,
And yet you still glare so terribly from afar?”

The Moon replied, “Boy, the reason I glare,
Is because even the space and the stars can’t compare,
To the simple wonders your lands contain,
To the diamond waterfalls, the strange grey rain,
The brown earth, the green ground, where you toil day long,
The whispers of a tall tree, and the nectar- bird-song!
How strange that even asteroids have no appeal to me,
When the question comes to dolphins, and deep blue sea.”

“O gleaming Moon,” I cried, “Please don’t be sad,
Come down, I have an idea, though it may be mad!
On some days, you can live down here on the ground,
And if you stay hidden, I’ll show you around,
I’ll show you craggy mountains that stand proud and tall,
I’ll show you caves dressed in darkness’ shawl,
And as long as you don’t shine terribly bright,
I’ll show you the secrets of the jungles at night.”

So this is how it all came to be,
How the moon grows and shrinks up in the night sea,
There’s waxing and waning all year round,
There’s a full moon and no moon and crescents abounds,
And if you look up at the moon one full moon night,
You will see its face shining, so happy and bright!

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The Wonder of Words

I'm sinking in a whirlpool of words,
Whispering, black words,
I'm drowning in endless letters,
As they beckon me with their inky fingers,
As they transport fiery thoughts in their lettered trains,
Getting drenched in torrential rain,
For it is raining sentences,
They will surely be the death of me,
These infinite stories, these finely spun webs,
But without them I cannot live,
I must fill these blank pages.

Oh what a paradox this is!
Like water,
They have power to drown,
Yet they are the life-giving nectar,
Without which I cannot live,
These never ending words.

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The Tragedy of Titanic

Although she was said to have some good luck,
Titanic, the grand ship, was down,
The sky was splashed ink when disaster struck,
Though no one thought they would ever drown,
I remember their voices slowly rising around me,
Panicked as the water rose high,
There were only dark waves as far as we could see,
And they seemed to spread into the sky,

Soon there was yells, praying, and many a frightened tear,
Such chaos surrounded us all,
While the orchestra played on, music strained in soupy fear,
As crushing water filled every hall,
What terror, what horrors I witnessed that night!
As a giant hand snapped Titanic in half,
And despite all her wonder, her magnificence, her might,
The hungry sea swallowed her with a laugh,

As I watched her sink later, safe in a lifeboat,
Her lights blinked, then were forever gone,
And as I sat shivering, icy, in my drenched coat,
I cried, for I knew hundreds would never see dawn.
My tears froze to my cheeks as I gazed up above,
Even the fiery stars looked down, mourning,
What a tragedy, they wept, engulfed by darkness’ glove,
Indeed, it was the wicked sea’s warning.

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Time

I am Time. I am the hours, the minutes, the seconds
The numbers that you humans choose to define me as
I am the force behind the rain, behind the sun sinking and rising
The force behind night falling and pink-streaked dawn awakening
I am the eternal thundering river that you are all swimming in
or floating on in your strange life-boats
Though some of you choose to drown in me
I am water, slipping through your fingers
though I am never frozen, always flowing
when I rush forward, you are left with only droplets of me
Only memories
I create through my many eras
And I destroy
Crumble entire civilisations
Reduce proud castles to dust
I bring music to silence, morning to night
But despite all this, I too bow before Him
The Timeless One
Who holds Time in his hands like a plaything
The One you humans call God.
For He is the crackling fire, the blazing flames
the logs and the ash, the shimmering heat
And I, mighty Time? Only the wispy smoke.

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Romeo's Gaze

(Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet)

The rain fell steady, as I entered the ball,
My heart in my throat, listening to Capulet drawl,
Inside they wore masks: peacocks, tigers, green and blue,
And it was then, as I gazed up, that my eyes fell on you,
A fiery star you were, with beauty divine,
Gazing far away, with a radiant face so fine!
But it was not this that captured my heart,
It was your eyes, that from the others, kept you apart,
They flickered and danced with such glorious flames,
They sang of magical lands, with strange magical names,
They held velvety darkness, and blinding light too,
They told of whispering rain, and clear skies anew,
I was suddenly falling in voids of galaxies and stars,
I was drifting from reality, to somewhere very far,
Oh I was lost in your eyes and drowning so fast,
I had forgotten my future, my present, my past,
Your dreams filled mine, gave new breath to me,
I’d escaped this time, now floating in a timeless sea,
Who were you, the one to colour my world?
The most beautiful beauty, strange celestial girl?

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Sanity

My arms were full of colours though you only wanted grey, 
My eyes held forgotten nights, my lungs breathless day,
I gave you swirling skies but you longed for only ground,
I gave you sweet silence- though you waited still for sound,
I held my arms out, singing the lilting song of rain,
But afraid of being drenched, from listening you did abstain,
I led you to timeless lands- you kept an eye on your watch,
“Only an hour,” you said, as the decades played hopscotch.
I showed you realms of gods, and their palaces divine,
I gave you glimpses of galaxies, fiery stars and moonshine,
But the more strange beauty I showed, the more I suddenly knew,
You were just another meal, so bland with flavours few!
Though you always spoke bloated sentences about work and time,
Your thoughts were servants of Logic; such terribly sane grime!
This is why I left you- when I realised one night,
You were nothing but a shadow, or a moon reflecting light,
Burning in your presence, I was infected with sanity,
So I left, turned away before it could suffocate me.

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Rain

He walked, as the sky darkened,
And the first drop fell,
More and more followed, grey and multicoloured all at once,
Soon silvery sheets cascaded from the inky sky.
And he walked, all the while, calmly on the street,
As they hurried past, with umbrellas in hand,
Cursing this miracle, frowning at this wonder.
What beauty this sight held, he thought!
But they were blind, those umbrella-holding ones,
Every single one of them,
And the sound of it, thundering horse hooves!
Or perhaps fingers tapping at a window,
Drumming, whispering, clapping,
But they were deaf, those umbrella-holding ones,
Every single one of them.
Soon it ceased.
And all that was left of it were puddles on the street,
Or a soaked umbrella.
But perhaps he had been the only one to feel it, to hear it, to see it,
The only one who would remember,
This glorious miracle, this beautiful rain.

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Stained Eyes and One Brave Voice

The girl saw the bright world through stained eyes,
There was guilt and misery, deceit and lies,
Her vision was darkened in dull-coloured light,
Even joy felt like agony, so stained was her sight,
She smiled all the while, through the weaved veil of pain,
It surrounded her for drowning moments, then again and again,
While others saw the sun as a buttery lolly up high,
The girl saw how it groaned about the bloated clouds in the sky,

Her once calm world had shattered, and the broken pieces were lost,
What had happened to the voice that told her to pick them up at any cost?
It had faded to a whisper, so quiet it was now,
But could she, perhaps, bring it back somehow?

The very thought was insane, it was crazy, it was mad,
But her mind, no her heart, decided it was not wholly bad,
In the laughing rain, she stood, one lonely monsoon night,
She thought and thought about her sad broken plight,
As the moon peeked out hopefully from behind the swirling clouds,
She said it once, in the dark rain, then again, clear and loud,
“I will find that voice!” She cried out to the relieved world,
“I will find my pieces,” How her words were happily hurled!
She left then, with a true smile that her face proudly crowned,
It was, after all, the first broken piece to be found.

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Palette

It is love, love

The heart, the soul, the flesh

I am nothing but that light

Blushing cherub-pink against violet

That lush hue, that reflects my red sinew

Pouring soft blues over me like a baptism