Saturday, February 19, 2011

'MOTHER!'

"Mother... Mother", cries out my little heart
It needs your existence, your life
Why can't my radiant eyes
Search for my mother
Why can't they find her
Somewhere near me....
Why can't my tender fingers
Touch and feel my mother's presence
Why can't they hold her hand
For satisfaction, for relief
Why can't my little brain
Understand the reality
Why can't it get to the truth
That you are not with me....

When I cry out in anguish
When I shiver in the cold
When I panic in pain....
The pain of losing you

Where have you gone... Mother
Putting me in the nature's hands
Those hands I cannot feel
Those hands that I cannot even see

Why did you forget mother
That the only thing I know
And the only thing I understand
And the only one I love... is you

Oh Mother! I know now
I am brave, I am strong....
I feel your presence in myself
I feel your love in my heart

I promise to myself today
I'll come one day
When I grow up into a beautiful girl
To see you... to see us

Somewhere amidst your hard life
Somewhere in your messed up past
Somewhere I now it does lie
The eternal love you have for me....

(For hundreds of children who are being abandoned everyday by their loved ones and for the mothers who abandon their children driven by circumstances)

Friday, February 4, 2011

BEST FRIENDS

As I think today... do you know what I can remember...I can remember that day... you wore a dark blue jeans and I had an icy blue on, you wore a funky t-shirt and I had a formal top. I remember...your fashionable blue nail-polish and also my classy black. You pulled your silky black hair into a stylish pony tail and I had common hair-do. I remember how much you loved some things and how much I hated them. I can say however distinguished our likes and dislikes were, we were always bonded by a heart-to-heart connection. May be that's why you always got me right. May be that's why you knew me more than myself. May be that's why my every moment with you was memorable. May that's why the first time I saw you, I knew somehow, that we'd be best friends. May be that's why we are best friends today.

KITES IN THE AIR

I stand here
And look at the sky
I can see hundreds of kites
Flying with life, happily...

My eyes...
Searching for something
Some lost treasure
Something that is mine...
...May be your kite
My heart...
Thumping hard
Heavy with the grief
The grief of loosing something...
...May be your kite
I wish I could find it
Just to say...just to convey...
A small fear
Just to bear and just to shed...
A small tear
Just to tell... just to share...
A small word
Just that my kite was lost...
Just that I could not find it...
Just to wish we could be together...
Just like our kites
Our 'kites in the air'