Me

I looked for someone
To hold my hand
A shoulder to lean on
Who would love
Support, encourage
And lead me by his hand
But I realized
That person was within me
That I had to be my true partner!

Gratitude

Walking purposefully
towards the parijatha plant
I plucked a tender branch
Without any care
As I crushed the leaves in the mortar
To take its juice
I paused for a moment
And realized how much effort
Had gone into its forming
Which was so effortlessly
Plucked and crushed
To savor it for my life.
Gratitude to the universe!

Again

Death strikes again
Life comes to a standstill
You feel the silence
The unfairness
We look at ourselves
And ponder
Are we living
A borrowed life
Was it his chance
To be alive
That we borrowed
How can life be so cruel
To a young wife
Couldn’t death have come to me
And not him ?

She wished

She wished someone cuddled her
without crushing her
That someone held her
Without owning her
That someone spoke to her
Straight from their heart
That someone looked at her
Not her body but her soul!! 

the door

The door banged right on her face
She was jolted
It was all too sudden
She stared into the darkness
Her heart numb
And empty !!

Cradle

As I lay down
With my bleeding heart
And pain gushing out
Emptying me
Letting go of
Every feeling
Every thought
I feel the Mother Earth
Swinging me
In her cradle
Making me sleep
Like a child
Unaware of
The world around!

blanket

Wrapped in the blanket of love
She slept peacefully
In the moonlit night
Suddenly she was thrown
Into the wild
Among the thorny bushes
Without the blanket
The world pierced through her!!!

She

There is blood, there is pain
She goes weak,
On her knees, she cries
Her loud shrieks
Echoing in the world
Can life only hurt? 

Failure

When you failed in everything
When you have nothing to show to the world
When you accept defeat
When you don’t see any hope
When even god abandons you
You succesfully live a failed life !!

Is there love?

They take everything
That grows on her
They dig deep
To take all that’s inside her
They ruthlessly step on her
Ignoring her pain
They throw on her
All that’s of no use to them
She loves, she nurtures,
she is tortured, she bleeds
Is there love ?

Can you

Oh mind, can you please  be calm
Not trying to be agitated by the world
Can you stay still
Not trying to escape out of the body
Can you be happy
Within the inner realms of me
Allowing me to listen
To the hidden tunes of the world!

Accepting

You go with a bagful of hope
To the altar of god
God doesn’t look at you
You fall at his feet
You plead, you weep
Still he doesn’t look at you
You return, empty handed
Looks at yourself and smile
Accepting defeat
Thankful
For what you already have
And receiving what he gives!