CHANGE...

Through my balcony,

As i see the evening sky,

I struggle for words

To tell myself,

How everything had changed...

Just like this pleasant evening

Would soon turn into a starless city night...

To explain to myself...

Why i'd have to head,

From my own world of delight...

Into an indefinite future...?

Into the world i cannot see..

Into the life i cannot imagine...

The future i cannot wish for or dream about...

Like some dark abyss...pulling me into it

And me... desperately trying to pull myself out...

If this evening would never part from me...

If this place, time and events

Would stop forever...for me

If me in my balcony...

Writing at the tune of the nightingale...would never change...

'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)

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'

MY DESTINY...

I softly close my eyelids

To shed a tear

And silently think

What i got to figure

My thoughts...in hundreds

Flashing in and out

My feelings... subtly tender

Making me weak

Among the disconnected pieces

And numerous photographs speeding up

Between the shattered emotions

And unfulfilled dreams

I can see a vivid picture

My eternal destiny

A hope...a path...a weapon...

My pen and a piece of paper

I MISS YOU

When I slip on the stairs

I raise my hand to hold yours

But it’s too late till I realize

That you are not there

When I am in trouble

When I am in pain

I get to mind the same word ,

The same memory of a friend

When I am totally in need of a friend

When I want someone to wipe my tears,

Someone who can give me a hug and tell me

“I am with you”

I miss a friend like that

I miss a my favourite person

I miss you

And I believe

You alone can take

This nightmare out of my life

Yes I can do it!

You’re on the cliff

You are about to jump off

Your next step will be your last

But wait…

Look up to the blue sky

It had just stopped for you

Look behind…recall your memories, your family

Cherishing all those happy moments

Look ahead…your loved ones…

Shattered and heart-broken at what you’ve done

Talk to yourself, your own self,

‘Why am I doing this?’

For whom? For what?

If you have the courage…

Face the obstacles bravely

Why run away from life itself?

When finally at one point it will ask you why?

But it is not yet late…

Think about your life

How you can make it better,

How you can walk with pride,

How you can finally say, “Yes I can do it!”