Rewrite

Girls and boys
Of all ages, across geographies
Listen to your inner voice
Tell your original stories.

Don’t wander in a frenzied way
Bogged down by hearsay,
Bullied by the external noise;
Listen to your wonderful choice.

What would you really want to do
Where do you see yourself be
Respond to the questions
That’ll set you free
Don’t remain in the vicious chain.

Do not copy-paste in vain
Others’ lives, instead, find
Some time to spend
With your magical mind;
Experience your agonies, ecstasies
Rewrite your own histories.

Hypothesis

Socrates preached,
'Know thyself'
To his ardent students.
I bet what he meant
Was to know God.

The traits are still the same
If we played the engaging game
Of the seeker and the sought.

Sad, the law-abiding citizen
Was poisoned to death;
We, imprisoned for life,
In fateful thoughts.

Work of art

My mom's embroidery,

More than 50 years old;

Birds perched so brightly bold

Every thread in their place

With every bit of hue

The work is just as new. 

Power of prayer

No, I am not a doctor,
A mere writer.

I wonder if I can put the world at ease
With my prayer? Here I try
I humbly write my lines,
To heal the endemic disease.

O God (atheists, agnostics
may replace God, Goddess
with anything that suits them)

O God, please save the world
From this mayhem
For I know there is nothing truer
than positive vibrations,
And between you and me
There is nothing but energy.

Let us not waste time
Looking for the Brutus;
The viral game is a global shame,
Let us pray to Krishna, Allah, Jesus
Or whosoever it may concern
This coronavirus
Has disappeared
From the face of the earth.

Please let us pray so we can put this global headache, the coronavirus, behind us. Nature has surprising ways to tell us that we are all one. 

I will perform nevertheless

Nature says, 'I do have a huge audience
Who love to see my performance.
They don't follow me
Yet, wherever I shower, they follow
They listen to my streams that flow
They treasure high and low
My beauty, my bounty;
Yet, they don't listen to me.

I bloom, they bomb
I heal, they kill
I support, they stab
I give, they grab
I unite, they divide
I love, they hate
I offer opulence, happiness
They bring poverty, sadness;
Guns, weapons, plastics, mechanical madness
Crowd the ground, cloud them night and day
In me, they invent unnatural tools;
But they praise my play
In action, or in silence,
Unemulated, my stage is perpetually houseful.

They see me, they hear
What I do for them
With emotion and intelligence,
They sing, write pages
About me, but I wonder since ages
What's gone wrong with their sense
For many inactive, inert yearsThey remained passive spectators;
They've chanted hymns, holy prayers
All in words, lifeless words,
While through their deeds,
Nurtured hatred, suicidal violence
For a long time,
They've not used their pairs
Of eyes and ears.

I will wait for you with patience.
For you, my supreme audience
I will perform nevertheless.'

Hot favourite

When you are feeling low

don’t wait, just go

grab a cup of coffee,

or, a hot cup of tea.

When you have to face

the daily stress

at work, or in business;

or, when you are lonely, jobless,

these beverages

can help you beat the blue,

they have saved us for ages

they’ll save our future too!

Natural shift

I realized I had to get 

Off my chair;
Else re-positioning it,
Became an impossible affair;

All this while I was one
With the wooden seat
Agility lost, I succumbed
To a rigid defeat.

Likewise, when I recognized
I was neither my thoughts,
Nor my feelings
I could detach myself from them
I was able to behold them from a distance,
I could hold them at once;
Like I held my framed identity,
My unnatural self, as the sole entity.

The obnoxious ones left my system;
End of the vicious game!
I emerged. Gave myself a priceless gift,
My paradigm made a natural shift.

Real power

Real power

I have the power to bless everyone,
Those who are nice to me
And those who are not;
From my royal position
I will not fall,

I will only use my power to love

Above everything, above all.

Vrai pouvoir

J'ai le pouvoir de bénir tout le monde,

Ceux qui sont gentils avec moi

Et ceux qui ne le sont pas;

De ma position royale

Je ne tomberai point du tout,

Je n'utiliserai mon pouvoir que pour aimer

Avant tout, et surtout.

সত্য শক্তি

প্রত্যেককে শুভেচ্ছা দেবার ক্ষমতা আমার আছে যারা আমার সাথে ভালো বা মন্দ ব্যবহার করেছে; আমি আমার এই রাজকীয় আসন থেকে থাকব অনড়, অটল এখান থেকে এখন, শুধুই ঝরবে প্রেমশক্তি অবিরল, অনর্গল।

Possibility, a thought away

I don't want to rise so high That I get lost in the sky; Everything, everyone I look down upon, Write their future On a polarized piece of paper And say, hey there See here, you've all lost, I have won. I don't want to lie so low and buried That I get trampled, stampede; Everything, everyone Walks over me, Writes my designed destiny And say, hey there See here, we have all won You are just another loser. I want to walk and fly steady in the middle Involve all in the most engaging huddle; Encourage naysayers, failures So they fight and taste success, Motivate high flyers, achievers So they humbly help others in the race Everyone wins, no one loses We grow hand in hand, in medias res.

Glasshouse

I look at you I know you don't lie,  But what you show's untrue.  Captured in the classy frame Shades of faces begging for fame,  Masks unmasked, in a win-lose game.  To be the fairest of them all My zeal to kill with skill,  Let them go to hell,  Let them fall, ruined And crushed in the glasshouse, Forever forgotten, perpetually small.  Who's the wisest of them All? All of a sudden If I'd change my question,  The jobless glass will screech in shame For it's not designed To peek within at all The glasshouse will stand Like a useless wall.