The tale of those who TRIED

For decades
Families split and deprived
They kept grumbling in vain
"You either could see
The Sun set down or see
The Sun Rise over the plains"
But they never could stand up &
Gather enough courage
To fight or to complain

In the Capital of their minds
They had built a monstrous wall
It spread wide and tall
You couldn’t see the skies or
Hear voices from across

Then once when
The winter winds blew strong
Whispers of “Wir Wollen Rous”
Turned out into a war song
The oppressed hearts
No more shy
The enraged consciences
Finally obliged
To tear down the concrete blocks &
Discover brothers and sisters, fathers and mothers
Lost in the battles of a yesteryear war

People in long lasting denial
Finally reunite &
Bless those who had selflessly
Tried

Cinderella, The girl of the cinders
She was a poor exploited maid
Till one day she turned up
At the ball
With divine help and not being afraid
Of the rage of her sisters
And her step mom

Prince charming he kept dancing
Cinderella she couldn’t leave his arms
But she knew the spell would not stand
The clock on the tower
As it`d turn past the hour
Scampering home as she fell behind
She let pass
One of her slippers of glass

Prince charming under her spell
Kept on searchin
With no size ain`t fit in the relics
He finally arrived at the cinders
Cinderella she timidly tried
As her feet fit in with ease
The prince knew he met his lost bride

Cinderella it never ceased to miss her mind again
The times when she had fearlessly
Tried

The girl who walked and the man who wrote

She stumbled on the sidewalk before she walked again
She looked in pain but she smiled back at me again
As she walked away I saw her limp

She had wandered across too far
Blindly following the stars
Before she had landed and was caught stranded
In a pit that blew up `n`
Swallowed her foot
She was left with crutches and
A life with limp
But
She kept striding away with steely grit.

I was mesmerized when I read
The piece he wrote
All I wanted then is to
Go to him `n` meet
When I was there
I put my hand forward to greet
All he had to offer me were
His empty sleeves
He calmed my guilt
“Son, I use my mind to write”
Then he showed me the finesse of his feet.

There are many , not less
More than what we can together guess
Who share the same kinda stars
Like the Girl that walked and The Man that wrote
AND
Living `neath the same Sun `n` Sky
That we often complain
Bless me Grace Me Teach Me
So I could Embrace What I got
Like the Girl that walked and The Man that wrote

(REACHING OUT FOR) CLUES

I stumbled upon a crossroad `n`
The sky had turned dead dark then
Those old paths came across as something new
`N` the street signs got me confused
My eyes turned blind and my brain turned numb
My footsteps kept looking out for
Clues
But the Night was in no mood to reveal

I was tempted to look back
I was tempted to return
I was ready to miss what was ahead
Till Tomorrow whispered silently in my ears
It was blessed by rebirth `n`
Everytime you`d think of the past
Yesterday ended up in tears
It was cursed to fade away

Then the northerly brushed on my feet
Yeah she too had something to say
"Hindsight never made any sense" she said
"It’s just a lifeless past tense
Makes you gather what you did wrong
before `n` feel bad about it today"

I was shivering allover
In the midnight blues
I never stood before in that kinda pain
I opened my arms to reach out
To the Night for clues
But it was all in vain
"We have no deal" she said
"So I have nothing to reveal"
I had to wait for dawn to break
Before I could find any
Clues
To surge ahead

ESCAPING THE BLINDFOLDED ILLUSIONS

I’m trying to get over;
I’m trying to run away,
I’m trying to hide n` I’m trying to sway
Get my mind to cast away

From the blindfolded illusions
Of Life
From the heartfelt delusions
Of Life

If only I could know where
There’s someone there
For me to trust ‘n’ for me to care
Will they hide?
When I’m finally there,
So I’m trying to confide ‘n’
I’m trying to shield my soul

From the blindfolded illusions of life
From heartfelt delusions of life

It keeps chasing me
I ain`t know a place to run
Feels like someone
In the noon desert sun
Keep on wondering
Till I realize
I’m the one CHASIN `n`
The one following

The blindfolded illusions of life
The heartfelt delusions of life

My life is a quest
To shield the
Innocence in my soul
`N` let it free to
Gleam as the sun
When it beams
Through the blue skies
`N` keeps away the grey
That shades it with
The blindfolded illusions of life
The heartfelt delusions of life

THE FATE OF THE VANISHED TIMES

I was around
To witness the seas dead
When
The chirpy living things had fled
The horizon too did fade
The sky burned itself until
It was left red

I was left with
Shivers to see
A land of dunes and stones
As the desolate wind moaned
For the hordes of discarded bones
Who had settled in
Their makeshift graves
Where their jaded feet
Were compelled to lay

I’m hoping to stay alive
Through the tides of time
To aid the prevailing minds
Stuck on the crossroads `n`
Bail them out from
The fate of the vanished times
I have seen before

RUNNIN AWAY FROM THE DARK !!!

He lights up his nights
& he lights up the skies
He lights up the world that he sees
But he keeps telling me things
I just can’t bet for or
I could believe
He says he can’t see
The spilled over beams
From the downtown halls
That reveal
The deprived who
Loiter across sidewalks

He can’t hear he says
The thirsty moans
He can’t see he says
The starved faces
That lay a few paces from his urbane cart
That he uses to
Run away from the dark

He returns back indoors
As the night falls
Secure and safe behind his doors,
On his well sheltered floors and well lit halls
I believe
He wants to conceal
From the misery he sees
& the agony that consumes his brains
From not very far

He locks himself in
Once again
Shying away from the dark

He loves to see his terraces sparkle and shine
With lanterns & chandeliers lined
But I am dumbfound to see him so cold
To the torches that burn
Among the shivering souls
Across on the roads
He’s back in `n` we can’t stop him
Running away from the dark

THE LIFE THAT MOST OF US HATE

Well many would agree our desires are rarely fulfilled. The situations we rather would avoid confront us in life without any prior notice. What we want is what we rarely get and mostly we get…..


The life that most of us hate
Is the life most of us will get
To stumble upon the bends
When the path is made up to be straight
Our feet are at sixes and sevens
When we got choices to make
To keep up with the Queue
When our hearts wish to
Step aside and break

The life we get to live in
Is the life we get to give in
Our desires and our means and
Our time to shape up our dreams
Then when we feel
We command our ways
We find the wheels in spin
And realize
Our hands stuck in clay

We gotta keep the faith
In life or in death
Till the sunshine ain`t right
The flowers ain`t blossom
In this life which we get

THE STEP AHEAD

I Got Paid For My Works
My Mind Made Me Feel
I Was On Top
My Eyes Ceased To View
The Stars above Them
All They Did Was
Keep Staring Down

I Flaunted My Pride
On Young `N` Old
They Fancied Their Feet
Being Firm on the Ground
Till He Said “Wake Up Son
Have a Look Around
You Aint the Only One

You Took Your Troubles
So You Got Paid
Look Out Son!
There’s always A Step Ahead”

I Didn’t Like It Much,
But I Couldn’t Hold a Grudge
So I Kept Hanging With My Friends
Where I`D Feel Mesmerized
As I Kept Hearing My Own Praise

I Had To Jump In the Fray
With My Work
Soon I Saw Many Backs In The Front
I Feared My Work Had Me Betrayed
My Ego Was Inconsolable
As It Learnt That
I Was Just Then
An Equal among Equals

Looking Back At My Modest Success
I Had To Give In Then
To The Fact That
People Exist In This World
To Dare You
On Every Step Ahead

TIME`S RUNNING OUT !

One Night When I Glance At The Sky
There Are No Stars `N`
I See No Moon In It
The Sky Seems Amber Red `N`
The Clouds Of Gloom Have Spread
All Over It

Don’t You See From Your Eyes
The Day Of Catastophe Is About To Arrive
So Please Think!
Before You Poison The Nature With Dirt
Coz Time`S Running Out
To Save Our Earth

One Fine Day As I Wander In The Woods
Well I Don’t Find Any Species And
There Are Not Many Trees Left To Live
They Have Been Lumbered And
The Species Have Been Numbered
Only To Vanish In Front
Of Our Eyes As Extinct

Yeah We Have To Realise
To Keep Woods Out Of The Desert`S Eyes
Coz Time`S
Yeah It’s Time
That Runs Out
To Save Our Earth And Our Lives

One Honest Oath Let Us Alltake
We Shall Strive
To Maintain The Balance
With Which Our Planet Was Made

Yeah It’s All In Our Hands
To Pass On
The Innocence Of Nature
To Those Who Are About
To Arrive On Our Lands
`N`Save The Green Belts
Or The Ice Will Soon Melt.
As Time Runs Out
To Save Our Earth......

THE TALE OF A TAROT MAN

Well there was this tarot man who would sit outside a casino and would predict the fortunes of those who used to punt inside the casino. He had made a living out of it and his calls would always be for making the punters feel good and keep his pockets full. But most of the predictions would come out false and he wouldn’t care for it as he ignored what happened inside to those who took his calls…and then he tried his luck………….

You Placed Your Cards
Beside The Doors
Of The Gambling Hall
With Your Mesmeric Eyes
You Prophesized
They’d Rise
When you’d see
Nothing at All

But You Never Tried To Grasp
Whether You Got It Right
Or The Wheels Had Caught You Wrong
You Got Your Buck `N`
You Couldn’t Care More
Whether They’d Lose a Trifle
Or They’d Lose Their All

You Dint Heed
The Alarm Bell
It Had To Catch Up

So You Had No Clue
What You Were In For
When You Tried
Your Luck inside The Den
It Kept Coming Up As ‘Four’
When you’d Keep Calling Up For ‘Ten’

Neither Did Your Cards Come Off Then
Nor Did the Stars You Had Gazed
For It’s a Made up Game
Than The Simple Deals
N` The Fortune U Foretell

Now You Feel
The Pinch of It
As You Squandered
Every Inch of It
You Took Them for a Ride
Now They Hang Around
To Get Back At You When
You Join Them in an Abyss

LIFE PREACHES

This is what I think life preaches all to stay innocent,caring,fair and truthful while being competitive in the new world. i know it would be impossible to be all at the same time but all I say is we could try and give a good look at the following thoughts while carrying ourselves in the world. This could make us more loved and admired than we could possibly imagine.


Life’s a long lengthy sojourn
There ain`t any point of return
Yeah we wander in our pasts
Through the windows of our minds
Yet can’t turn back
To visit back in time

Cheaters, litigators `n` chasers
Of material pleasures
Review your brains
Just as we check in
We gotta check out someday
No one en tour carries back
The suite in which he stayed

All young restless
Self minded souls
Better lend your
Ears `n` minds to those
Who’ve seen the Sun more `n`
Got wet by the rain
Stop hurling your snobs insults `n` pain
Give `em their due `n`
Better do it soon as many have left
`N` left out there are very far and few.

PLEASE DONT TRY THIS AT HOME...

Bleeding faces as foreheads get smashed by barb wired canes
Crushed tables with acts of insane acrobatic men
On your sets you’re invited to enjoy their shows
Then quietly advised
Please don’t try this at home

A masked man jumps from a tower to a terrace top
A biker gulps a can before he leaps from a hilly terrain
Another man dives fearlessly from a plane
They all act as if they have no bones
Then the next frame says
Please don’t try this at home

All these Houdini acts are seen
By toddlers `n` kids not yet in their teens
I wonder whether their intellect is fully grown
To grasp the confused minds of those who say
Please don’t try this at home.

RAIN `O` RAIN........

Its late June `n`
He ain`t arrived yet
I bet he’s lost or stuck
Coz he never makes it this late

As every one longs for him to come
No more than the summer Sun.
He seems to have lost his cool
For he fears to miss a
Retreat thats elsewhere booked

The land has baked her just right
As she longs for the drops
To emit the fragrance of life
The waves too have rehearsed
To fly long `n` tall
Hand in hand with the storm
They plan a ball
The stage is set `n` the curtains are up

Rain `o` Rain
Relieve em All.

He entertains....

He Entertains

On the route leading home
In the rakes of steel
Through the sea of crowds
He rises with his skill

No light left in his eyes
No life left in his feet
He spreads his shivery palm
As he carves a path with his stick

He entertains,
Deflects our pains
`N` the ordeal that
Commutes along on our rails

He stuns with his deep voice
In lines of joy `n` grief
Of the life he dreams `n`
The mirage in which he lives

As the jingles from his palm
Grow louder with every generous deed
He bows out of the tracks
As he has empty pots to fill

He entertains ……

THE SHADES OF THE HOLY SOUL..

Some souls attempt all life to dodge facts
Cease to get out of their glorious pasts
Blossom till the nostalgia survives
Wither as time squeezes tears from their eyes

Many live to toast
On the success not their own
Boast them selves until,
They scavenge on someone else’s throne
But their palaces lie
Insecure `n` storm prone
As the winds blow
They `re dumped into
The world of rank unknowns

Others exist in an invisible state
Launch others skywards to great heights
Burn their souls `n` minds
To carve passage for the light
Into the dark alleys of others lives

Few choose the down to earth groove
Treat success like a master `n`
In their perpetual quest of
Something to prove
Offer their critics `n` cynics their neighboring room
Their houses lie in innocent lanes
Life for em flows through the purest veins.

Truth Always Finds its way...

Like the droplets at crest caress the hillsides
Destined to pave the foothill and form a brook
The murky night with its shady pals
won’t linger long
They make tracks as the sun rays caress`em after dawn
Every false flees someday
As truth yes truth finds a way

The decades of heavenly calm end
As Vesuvius bursts out with a splash
Yeah the sweet lie turns sour
As truth strikes any moment any hour
The terrain can be hilly, twisted or steep
But truth always finds its way.

Moon light verses are romantic than the solar blaze
Yet nature glitters when it romances along Suns rays
The storms of lie hit great heights
The grassland `n` the branches do
But the trunks `n` the mountains don’t sway
Like every storm the storm of false dies out
As truth through the straits of time
Always finds its way.......................

Please Stop Now !

Please Stop Now! I see her legs tumbling down.

I’ve seen her juggle it with one hand,
Then she juggled it with two.
She lapped it for a while,
Then she shouldered it too.
But it has grown from,
Million ounces to billion pounds
Please stop now!
I see her legs tumbling down.

A child of the Indies,
As a toddler she had a governess Portuguese,
When in her teens she was handed to an English.
Till she turned enough old she was set free.
Since, she fought a thousand storms `N`
A million hard times
Ensure her siblings all grace `n` shine.

Now she is old many decades hence,
She’s insecure to want her house fenced
A small isle has turned into
A Metropolis town
Please stop now!
I see her legs tumbling down.

In the good young days
She loved the caress & cruise of wheels,
But now she `s battered `n` bruised,
By the waves of steel
Above the chameleon sky warps from,
Blue to black `n` brown

Please stop now!
I see her legs tumbling down.

I Hope We Last

In our world of
Guns battles `n` blasts
As the red floods
Flow across thick `n` fast
When peace seems to be
An outdated past

I hope we last

As the irony of our times defines
The Gun’s of Green are
About to swallow
The green tender grass
As our values
Degrade `n` drain
From gold to brass

I hope we last

As the wars continue
Into the nights
With weapons smart `n` fast
Where the dragons
Under human masks
Kill for religions `n` castes

I hope we last.................