To Delhi...

The day it all seemed bright and beautiful...the day it felt warm like the embrace...yes, the day when everything seemed to be perfectly in place...people having their regular evening strolls...chatting non-chalantly with faces known and unknown...children humming like wild bees...an occasional cycle bell attracts their attention from the innovative ball game...young souls looking into each others eyes...hungry for love...the day it was all calm and serene...except for the little tick-tock that speard silently through the atmosphere...sending the message of DEATH !!!

P.S. This is dedicated to the recently bomb blasts that shook the Capital of India.

TO A FRIEND.......

From the compact spaces of adolescence,
Friend's face is a horizon

That can be crossed only once:
Through Betrayal.

And I learn

Friends have no secrets.
They exaggerate their presence
And succumb to their fears...
Nothing lasts in the vicinity
Of the body, not even
The funny
Gestures of friendship.
This knife-like poise is a pause
Between lives.

Even as your boat
Is rocked by stumps of trees
Underwater, my steady heart
Is rattled by a monsoon wind!


note: this is to my friend who has always taken advantage of me whenever he was need...and
after building a support system, has alienated me from his life! But friend I just want to
tell you that your friendship still lingers in my heart.......

The Lady....

Life moves on
Mercilessly beating the darker times
And I lie awake
Just to see the moon...
But, alas, I forgot
She had a companion!
As I draw the curtains of my eyes,
Nightmares come racing in
To disturb my solitude....
I see myriad of insects
Crawling on my naked body
Eating away at my skin
Then my flesh....
Blood oozes out of my veins
And flows in narrow streams!
She licks them in unbound joy
To satisfy her disgusting thirst...
I lie chained to the ground
Groveling in the lowly dust!
Her cunning stare, increases my agony,
Her subtle smile stirs me with ecstasy!
I want to embrace her
But I Can't.
Someone give me Mithridates
Someone tell me to hate her....
Look into my eyes
They're hollow....
But at the end of this fathomless hollow
Still some love exists
For her....The Lady-

A beauty by day....a monster by night!