Who You Are…

Are you that ray which calls the dawn?

Or the dew drops on the flowers in my lawn?

Wrapped in brightness, are you the warm sunshine?

Or echoing in the woods, you are that song divine?

I heard a tweet, were that you on my window?

Or trying to wake me up, the sun-ray on my pillow?

Oh! Please tell me, are you the cloud in the hills?

Or the valley of flowers, which looks like frills?

Are you the full moon, shining bright in the snow?

Or whispering in my ears, you’re the breeze in the meadow?

Or are you that bird, flying freely up high?

Glittering like diamond, a star in the sky?

Whatever you are, of this world or another,

With your ethereal charm, there is none other.

So standing awestruck here, I suddenly realize,

It’s not you, my love, but rather my eyes.

I never know why, whenever ‘beauty’ I see,

It’s always ‘you’, that’s found by me.

You’re Here

You’re here; oh!! Yes, you are,

Nothing under the sun can get you far.

My soul and you, just stay along;

And so for you, I never long.

Your smile on my lips, your grief in my heart,

Your tune in my mind, who can get them apart?

When I walk the long boulevard, holding you beside,

The world can see just me, and wonder what I hide.

Your fragrance enfolding me, never goes away,

My fingers hooked in yours, asks you to stay.

Just be with me forever, wherever I go,

I dream to see eternity, together; you know.

Some find me silly, when I smile at you,

“In love is she”, being decent, states few.

You may be ‘far’ for the world, but for me,

Still in your twinkling eyes; my universe, I see.

I’ll Smile

I woke up in the morning, gave myself a while,

Looked out of the window, and decided, ‘I’ll smile…’

Hey dear Smile, now I'm placing you on my face,

You can’t leave it now, and there is no ‘in case’.

A smile which is believable, and true indeed,

A smile one can see through, a smile open to read.

You have to be right here, and say ‘Hi’ to all,

Till the twilight stays, and the dark night falls.

Come what may, it won’t take you away,

With this one smile, I’ll care, love and pray.

I’ll laugh away the hurts and cut away the tears,

I’ll smile all the way and forget all my fears.

I’ll dance under the stars, how mystic it would seem,

Find you by my side, I’ll smile in my dreams.

Now I won’t stop smiling, even a single day,

I suppose it’s because you finally came to stay.

Pretend you’re working

Pretending is an art and is fiddly indeed;

It’s all about luck, planning and a good speed.

You find the boss coming by, just pick up the phone,

And talk to that ‘no one’ in a real professional tone.

One tab has your email, the other has your shows,

You master switching between them, your boss hardly knows.

It just takes a quick click and you can change the screen,

Stay calm and confident your games remain unseen.

Need a power catnap…? You can get it in style,

Put your hands on your keyboard or just get behind a file.

You’ve to learn it well, how to wake when required,

When you didn’t get noticed, cheers to the skill you acquired.

In case you get caught, you know you are smart,

‘Deep-thinking as if you are sleeping’ is again an art.

Work is sometimes boring, of course we agree
And pretending to work can so easily set you free.
But pretend to work only if you think you can,
And make sure you've got yourself a backup plan.
Always be ready to wriggle your way out,
Because that's what pretending is all about.

My bad, Love…

I always heard, what you never said,
Without any reason, brazenly I dreamt.

You were naïve and never untrue,

My bad, Love, as I fell for you...

Who woke me up? I was better off in dreams,

An evil eye caught my bliss, it seems.

Where was it moving? I never had a clue,

My bad, Love, as I fell for you...

Your highs your lows, your smiles your tears,

I made them mine, your might and your fears

When I called ‘you’ mine, you heard that too,

My bad, Love, as I fell for you...

Your smile was my sunshine; it always made my day,

Those eyes, ‘my stars’, had stories to say,

What I was going through, your heart always knew,

My bad, Love, as I fell for you...

And I didn't utter a word, as we needed none,

You can keep my life, what I wanted was done,

I'm asked to leave, with intentions pure as dew,

Still… My bad, Love, as I fell for you...

♡ Togetherness ♡

What is a dream without a sight…?

Where would the moon go leaving the night…?

Can fragrance live without a breath…?

But no one knows where they met.

You know how close secrets are to your heart…

And how well hooked is loneliness to a thought…

Stay together, the waves and the sea...

Who can try setting them free…?

Raindrops and the clouds, the lips and a melody,

They are destined to separate, how close they may be.

If they won’t got detached; for an instance,

Do you think we would've felt their magical existence…?

They belong to each other, wherever they go,

Their bond is eternal, but should they bother to show…?

So, keeping hand in hand, may let you be mine…

But ‘togetherness’ is what the nature defined.

You’re forever staying by my side…

Never realized… our moving apart in life, would ever matter, as it is doing…

We promised… our staying distant won’t change even a single thing…

Yes, YOU convinced me to move to the better world that waited,

But I noticed your face that moment, your genuine smile faded.

That day, you sounded so sensible and I was too, not bad at all;

I remember that departure lounge, and our very last phone call.

I could see you through the glass, with your eyelashes wet.

You being few minutes before… we could have met.

I said, ‘Hey! We’ll meet; I'm coming back soon’.

Of course I knew, we have to wait for that blue moon.

“I'm gonna miss you”, I wanted to say; but as strong as possible I had to stay.

So looked at you and passed a smile; and boarded the flight for some thousand miles.

See, undeniably alone, here I am, living up everything the way we planned,

But have to share a lesson I got – ‘if you do, it’s damned; if you don’t, it’s damned’.

Why all strategies seem to be shaken?

There was something which was critically mistaken.

Oh! I got it. Our silly brain abandoned us.

While we planned, it worked; now, watching the heart work.

Yeah… we met to get apart; my every ‘bye’ was a new start,

Start of a journey I always knew, may be from no-where but will end at you.

Be it a misty hill, or a lonely seashore...

You are forever staying by my side and I'm always yours.

PS – Nope... I'm not okay with it, but I won’t cry about it either. Won’t ever make you feel that ‘I do miss you’.

You know well, that this could have gone a completely different way.

Understanding you...

Every time you treated good, and sometimes when I was left in woods,

When there were numerous things to smile upon and times when moan made them gone,

With each step along, I thought, it was about understanding you…

I consider the days when you were so nice, and so the days when I paid the price,

Yeah... the days you were untainted like dew, and I won’t overlook the ones you cherished to skew,

With every passing day, I thought, it was about understanding you…

I remember your ‘baby-sitting’, and of course that reckless notion of 'quitting',

Your 'being there' and your 'leaving'; your touch that made the survival fulfilling,

With each breath passing through, I thought, it was about understanding you…

You created me, you crushed; saw me falling and you rushed,

Yes I’ll mention, you made me dream; but I didn't find you the night, a nightmare made me scream,

With every moment I was in, I thought, it was about understanding you…

You lent a hand, you ditched; you praised and you bitched,

You cared, you scared; you slapped and you kissed,

With entire emotions running through, I still thought, it was about understanding you…

Last night I slept on the matter that, ‘Now… how much I understand you?’

Huh... the night passed over, and the morning declared… ‘You’re still so very new...’

And finally, I chose… I’ll take you as you come… Come on…!!

Oh! LIFE, you have hell lot of masks in your bag, which are still to be put on…

With all I had of you, I decide, now I don’t care about understanding you.