Atramentous storms!

The day has quit, the darkness reigns

Calm as death, I’m standing still

You fill your pen with ink, I fill mine in blood

The truth is overrated, Conspiracy is a creed

Shadows move in and out, Death is delusional,

Nothing remains on the other end, nor this,

Lamenting is a cliché, Numbed are hurts!

Yes! My pages bear scars enough, 

Of depths oblivious be you,

For, in demented oblivion you dwell.

Aware are you of who you’ve fostered?  

Broken quill feeds better, did you know?

And so you’ve raised a predator in me,

The one that waits, and waits for the kill.

For, there hasn’t been another thirst known,

Only of blood and that alone!

The endless symphony...

In the Deserted dreams,

Heaps of hopes lay crushed

In the cluster of stars,

Not one falls in for an agreement

While a decision is being made for me,

I lay handcuffed.

Was that a door of hope?,

Fall forth, the iron curtains.

I'm lost,

In the labyrinth of your love

I'm stuck,

In the shackles of your desires.

I've waited with a steadfast will,

Caught between dreams and despair

A hopeless hope,

And my heart sinks in truth.

It's just another name after all

Or a salutary pain? 

A fancy I've let grow,

A thirst tarries, and the silent screams..

I toss and turn in sleep

Your premonition and I sigh!

Do I retire or let play

The forbode game of light and shadow?

In a blink I clutch, in another retreat. 

A conflagration rises,

And the storms to ease

Fast falling tears and a melancholic symphony,

I pray for the strength to greet my destiny. 

STAY!

A symphony in the background

A reminder from the heavens,

‘You asked for intimate moments, here I give!’

A satisfying silence,

The roads often traversed, now defined

With a memory new, a fragrance ingrained

Some words, a chuckle and a naughty mockery

Swept by the tempest of love,

I’m a merry go, you are a drug

One look in the eyes and I’m high as a kite

For today, contemplation I’d do away.

Today, cloudy contingency I’d over look

This day, conflicting controls, I've set free

Another look, I’m canonized

The rustling leaves, the rustic dreams,

A long hoped day, a distant wish met reality

You envelope me, I’m owned and the day seized.

I know not of what tomorrow brings,

Or takes away…

Of what I know, this, you, me, the magic will stay!

Defenceless Atheism.

Castles in dust do mix

That once was called a home

Dreams soak a little

In the unmet material possibility

The roads have shed a tear or two

They say, they’d fancy duality

Certain corners have echoed laughs

They seek for eternity

The wind had played havoc then,

Doesn’t it now!

Give my message to your master, shall you?

I shall never believe your sire.

He calls himself the master of lands

And, looks upon us with indifference fierce

As unfair as life charted to be,

Why with the people we love and fear? 

I wrote to thee!

On the fogged window I wrote to thee

Of the unspoken words of love's entry

Even when rains wash the scrawled pane

A song, a story, simple and plain

Some fall day you shall see

That my love wasn't a timed story

But as boundless as the ocean

As timeless as eternity be

In my griffonage, I wrote to thee

While lips lie sealed, but eyes whispered for you to see

A muffled smile, damask'd me.

A sunset behind, florets blushed a coral glee

A shadow, the two, a silent walk

An unsigned vow, a quiet promise, and the birds' flock

Grateful heavens, I wrote to thee,

A wordless wish, a dandelion set free

The stare of silence, boundaries a blur

A new moon dawns, unreal azure

Some stills inscribed, a magical composure

Time ticked by to a reassuring closure.

I tore myself away from the place

A treasured fragrance, of him I trace

To keep sake of him from there on,

And to savour by when he was gone

Flanked by trees, some hopeful while

I turned to see, memories smile.

Given to uncertainty, you may never see,

I always will, I wrote to thee! 


Penned on- 22 Sept, 2012.