Thursday, June 30, 2016

Writing different stories





Wind…
The nearby pool shivers,
The tree flutters,
The meadow shimmers;
Each, writing a different story
With its waters, leaves and blades
An essay is written on the time-stage
The draft escapes the eyes
Stays in the pool, with the tree, upon the meadow

Breaths of life live in the pages
Moving moments of experience
On the stage of time
Writing different stories.

Thursday, June 23, 2016

Everything falling in place


Strange that now we are talking more.
Papers need to be signed,
Properties to be apportioned;

Memory is bankrupt and poor

I travel the city we left long ago
I saw the bank from outside, the yellow door
we opened our first joint account
even before we tied the knot…
went to the hospital where you delivered,
spoke to the doctor who strangely showed me the room,
its doors opened some twenty years ago
to tell me I had a daughter…
‘Sir is everything all right’, he exclaimed
Yes I said… everything is falling in place now.

I went to the park, the fairs where my daughter
would insist on every single joy ride 
that she’d see,
the metro howled in me the journeys to her school,
I saw at a glance the little steps that learnt
to climb the escalator…
it is moving, just as it were.

We are going to be strangers soon
Memory is bankrupt and poor
And I could see everything falling in place
But strange I feel lighter than ever before
For maybe now we’d talk more.

Thursday, June 9, 2016

Conversation


I am talking to a European, an Asian
Not to you
I am talking to a chairman, a watchman
Not to you
I am talking to a Mercedes, a bicycle
Not to you
I am talking to a Muslim, a Christian, a Hindu, a Jew
Not to you




Thursday, June 2, 2016

Beliefs



It’s a civilized world.
Struggling in systems,
obsolete machines stink, rust
yet run and govern
while in the background;
a green-room, or a battlefield
music throws up:
Change change change
sound like chained words.

Paintings panic,
cemented cemetery burns in the sun, cries.
In the enslaved mind,
beliefs with stony eyes don’t bend, nor blend,
they cannot even blink.

Open page with known ends
stares blankly at the white moon.