A Grass…!

On a misty morning, in a lush green lawn, a family of green grass woke up to Sun's rise! One grass looked up to the sky, saddened, wanting to be separated out of the family to be moved elsewhere…

The grass might have wanted to be a coconut tree

Or just break free

It wanted to grow tall

Not ready to accept the impossibility at all

The grass asked and asked, never realizing the impossibility of its wants. Thus it prayed…

'hey, I need not be a grass in this lawn

I can be better off than Sun'

Times flew as the grass grew old, but it never heard and none told…

How beautiful you look

To write you I shook

If you might be alone, none would care

While you're together, I can't stop to stare

As the poet wrote verses unending, grass didn't know its beauty while it asked to be someone else.

The grass saw its ending, poems would be written on and on and forever…

24Feb2008…!

The day was good and bright! Rains had just finished cleansing the country that's kept clean even by the nature! Wide roads and ever-stretching greenery on either side, as I seated comfortably in my 1^st Mercedes taxi. It did remind me a little of my own garden city, but a little… I wished my own city was also taken care so well, with love and affection, with safety and cleanliness if not with high rise buildings or flyovers, tech-parks or pubs n discos!

My 1^st breakfast was a bread-butter-toast and huge glass of Tea, well that's how Singaporeans drink their Tea! It worried me how I would survive with this kind of breakfast repetitively. Later my acquaintances took me to Udupi Hotel and I was pleasantly surprised and unpleasantly surprised as well with the food I had.

Chinese New year had just arrived and Singapore was hosting air-show that day. My friend and friends-to-be had come to meet me on my arrival day and later we all went to Little India, the name sounded quite exciting but not the place. Would really need a book to write about this place though!

So that was 24^th Feb, 2 years ago… all these 365*2 (+1day for leap year) have been lots of humid n rainy and less breezy!

Lots of good days, few bad… don't wanna talk what was bad, just wanna say Love this day…

Zindagi Zindabad!!!

Where are you…?

Where are you these days?

Why have you hidden yourself?

Don't just run away

We've been waiting on your way…



Like you blow the wind, like earth's shaken

Like you shower drops back out of ocean

Breathless we've become, our souls torn

With broken dreams we stand your way, to see you return…



All of us, none left unhurt

Searching you with empty heart

You're never seen anywhere

You know you're wanted everywhere

Breathless we've become, our souls torn

With broken dreams we stand your way, to see you return…

A Letter…!

A letter I want to write to you, to say what you are!

A word I've been searching, I'm not clever!

I haven't begun anything yet,

Looking at you I fret,

Will I ever write?



You could be a question to my weakness,

an answer to my trueness…

Nothing I've known ever is what you are!

I first write, then regret

coz what you are, none ever met!



I know for sure, it's a mistake,

I shouldn't have begun…

I know I'm a fanatic,

to have you written…



This letter is not really what you are

But it says what you are

For, I know now that I cannot pen,

I cannot explain

Coz I can't introspect, and that inside me is all you are…!

Dreams…!

Dreams…

those when I close my eyes,

of insane minds,

revisit at times

on shattering n dazzling nights



Dreams…

Could you bother more, are you one to be believed?

When I wanna be free, it can't be greed!

You scare and horrify, you wake me on my bed
I scream, go away go dream



Dreams…

On my pleasant night

you show amazing sight

On some lousy day

you just rip me away



Dreams…

I beg you stay, don't come again

I'm gonna sleep now, I like no pain

Your other face is nightmare, don't show up to scare

I'm gonna rule you out, you stay and come nowhere

Fly…!

I haven't yet, got what I had set out for

I'm not even near, can't know how far

With smiles I still walk, sometimes wither

Sprint or fly, need to get farther


 
I feel it's now that I get a timer

Knowing where I gotta be in an hour

Like it or not, these minutes would be over

I emerge, I arrive, I go past the topper


 
Crawl to be a looser,

Walk to be a dumber,

Run to be a winner,

Fly to be a star!