The Proposal....

When destinies entwine
And the world seems,
Like a better place to be in....
When lives come together,
Consummated by joy......
When souls are summoned
For a union sublime......
And the mind unleashes,
A storm of emotions.........
That engulfs the heart......
Enriching my existence......
In that coccoon of ecstasy created
By the mystical tricks of love.....
I beseech you, mon amour
To be mine, now, forever......

Humanity Recall...

They say,"We revive a dying cause

Breathe life into a race

Heading into extinction...."

While an innocent child

Draws his last, to fulfil

Their desire of vengeance......

They say,"We voice the oppressed

We bring an end called for

To the painful resilience

Of our silent spectators......"

While a woman loses her right

To humane respect

In their cultural stampede.......

They say,"We surrender

Our helpless souls

To the will of God

To protect his bounties"

While their very own

Are sacrificed indiscriminate

On the altar of disoriented conviction.....

I ask on behalf of those,

Who place life before all else.....

To which faith can they belong

Who insult the essence of human ties?

I ask, what belief guides them

Towards clouding each love filled sunrise?

For I am a son of God

As they, no less....

And while they abuse

The verdict of peace,

I wish to address

My misguided brothers,

That every time a life is lost

Your blood has to pay the cost.....

While your exalted religion dies

In that unaware soul's cries.....

Seu Rosto

I lie here

Unaware of the world,

That spins around my being

Conspiring in smiles....

While I soak in

Your dream-lit visage,

The picture of you,

That I drew when you were away,

Has faded and lost its place.....

Its a new soul I see

Gentler, a surreal fragility......

Like the first sheet of ice,

On a winter lake.....

A smooth contour

With a sensitive base.....

Inciting silent sensations,

With a tumultuous pace.....

Those alluring eyes,

That color me with emotion,

Moisten my own,

While you hold me close.....

Those lips that seek

The tenderness I hide,

Seem to entice my gaze.....

And I silently wish

The heavens to add,

A lifetime more

To this enchanted phase......

And as the first sparkle of gold

Tinges your countenance,

With the heralding day....

I gather in my heart

The nascent ecstasy,

Of a transformed life.....

While I indulge once again,

In the depths of your love.....

Basking in the radiance,

Of your beautiful face.......

The Last Breath....

The failing light

Of an exhausted day....

Illuminates that stairway,

She had taken to

For an unaccountable time.....

And now it is just the dying fire,

That shakes her numb,

Into conscious existence.....

For what that darkened passage

Leads to, is a misted illusion

She fears penetrating.....

That face, which adorned her happiness......

Those eyes, that reflected her love......

Wait for her presence,

In a heavy-lidded trance......

But the weight of obligation,

Suffocates her being.....

As she seals the door

Behind which crouch,

Paroxysms of timeless memories.....

For it is time...

To walk down that unnerving path....

And hold him in her arms.....

Taking in his last desire,

As he breathes into her

His last breath......

Survival....

It takes a broken heart,

To hold together the shards

Of bruises in its confines.....

It takes a defeated spirit,

To stand up and attempt.....

Re- attempt to move on.....

It takes soaked eyes,

To build up the strength

To hold back tears......

It takes an aimless soul,

To wander through the ruins of life....

Looking for that goal,

Which illuminates the path ahead......

What but a haul of nightmares,

Can teach us the value,

Of the "sweet dreams"

Whispered by an unaware friend?

What but a quicksand

Of never ending cycles,

Can describe to you,

The necessity to hold on?

It may seem unforgiving,

That fate should drive you

On the rubble, conscious of the rough...

It may mighty be formidable....

To fathom the depth

At which life, in its whimsical ways,

Will stop playing cruel games at last.....

But what do you find,

When you open up the chaos of memories,

For your world to see?

You find how little

You attempted to give up....

You behold how you never

Assumed you should have stopped.....

You marvel at your identity

Of failing to bar your dreams.....

You count your rubble as blessings,

Your tears, a courage in your eye's gleam.....

For its this flotsam in the ocean,

You kept wishing got wasted away,

That held your sails high......

That kept your failures at bay......

So chance upon your life,

And let it lead your boat.....

Coz you never know,

What makes you survive

And keeps your hope afloat.....

Sleepless....

The drunken stupor

Of bitter sweet memories,

Douses my quest

Of the land of dreams....

I lie, half-awake

As if stopped mid-sentence,

While wiping the smudges

Off the dew soaked screen.....

Self proclaimed desires

Seem to crouch in the shadows,

Of a sub conscious soul....

While the eyes frisk the darkness

For a silhouette of sense.....

Yet the rays of the unseen

Fail to descend......

The heart seeks

A new wanderer,

To find his way

Into the barrens of emotion......

Yet discordant chords

Seemingly play futile notes.....

As numbness gathers comfort,

In the arches of the mind....

While I lie sleepless,

Waiting for my stars

To play a new trick on me this time.....

Writer's Block....

The soul, so numb

With frigid joy,

Has choked on the syrup

Of linkless thoughts.....

It comes to me

In bits and pieces,

How I can be manoevered

By the strings of fate......

The flow of life unhindered,

But the river of emotions at a stand still......

Yet I am standing by the hope

Of survival, through this ordeal.....

This conquest of lyrical magic,

That mends holes

Of my torn reality.....

I wish love triggers

That storming sentiment,

That can summon my desires

Out of the box......

For I am stuck,

In the closed walls

Of the evident present.....

The sudden loss of my verse

Tormenting my imagination......

As my words seek

From their golden cage,

Their flight of freedom.....

That they cherish,

That they deserve.....