I am married to a rock
Dark and solid
Stationed near the dock

I keep riding the waves
And floating on the calm turquoise
From time to time I venture into bat caves

I love the sea,
 so vast!
I love its infinity
It's seductions last
 It has no end
It doesn't have boundaries
It's depths transcend
This land and that

But I have to come back to my shore
Being fiercely loyal
To perform my chore

Yet time and again
I keep going to my beloved sea
Who has ordained
Me as the desire queen

The world does not need them

The world needs slaves, servants, janitors.
It needs gratification workers.

It doesn't need dreamers and lovers.
It needs deliverers.

No. Definitely not food sharers.
Not even cooers, gurglers and cuddlers.

It doesn't need the soft moistness of the damp earth after showers.
It fears the bog for hours.

It doesn't need more birds or the boughs.
They'd better be caged, labelled and owned and won in rows.

It doesn't need a broader horizon.
Just this one narrow keyhole vision.

It doesn't need deep, dark, clear oceans for a dive.
It needs ores, minerals and the dime.

It doesn't need mystical beasts and enchanting story tellers.
It despises the spells of the fairy-land dwellers.

It's jealous ways have ensured status quo all this while.
Has it realized that it keeps making a dynamite,
The one that it sits on
The one that it has caressed all along.

Where will I bury the creature that is growing inside
Devouring my gut and heart at the same time
Better still, i'll burn it to its bone
But what about the ashes born?
Sweep, swab, scrub,  blow them down ?
And it's stench?
For this, I shall marinate the house with floral scents.
And then completely wipe out its traces.

If you keep tearing me into two, atleast  immunize me from it
For, it will be reborn, sometimes, to a monstrous size,
Tormenting me even more.

Please teach me how to cremate it once and for all with my body.
For if it has to die, it has to pass with me.
It has started beating in me, running deep in my veins
Cut one and you will see its head pop out.
It's swallowing my insides atom by atom.

Otherwise, if you wish to, hydrate me well
Feed me through your warm palm
Cradle me in your loving arms
Hold me tight
Hold me fast
Kiss my navel and my nape

Exorcise my body off that creature
With your love charms
Caress my arms
Entangle your fingers with mine
Sprinkle your magic on my body
And see it come alive.

An Ode to the Dark

In the shadows and their calm
I get my much needed balm
Solitary and pure
No sound or sight to pierce the night
It's kind and warm
As a favorite blanket on
No worldly affairs or following norm
It's in a suspended form
It doesn't demand
It keeps exuding it's surreal moonly charm
It's sparkly skies
It's dense blackness
It's art in all its forms divine

How I wish light was as kind as the dark
The dark dulls down scar, wrinkle and mark
It frees the heart to soar as a dove
Light sees ugly in the unpolished edges of love
It is burdened with feelings of disgust
On impulse it disowns all that it sees as rust
While the dark accepts, coils and wraps
 In it's bossom, it embraces owls, snakes and wasps,
For it, even a hiss
Is as gentle as a kiss.

Do you remember?

Do you remember how we texted in songs,
Our inner anguish, sorrow and deep understanding of each other

Do you remember how the roaring waves crashed in the background
of our banter
Or the times we laughed out loud and hard at each other's silly jokes

Remember how we chatted till we fell asleep and texted the first thing in the morning
or how we envied each other's crushes
And burst out at each other for feeling that way for them

Do you recall the photos of my artwork shared
Soaked in your love
Or the chain of poems i wrote for you but never shared

I wish you too would miss what I so dearly hold
Deep in the recesses of my mind
I wish you too text back to my soul as you listen to it's song, some day, I wish you do.

Like threads of an entwined rope,
They danced as one.
Of one kind,
They flapped and fluttered,
Swirling ceremoniously around gulmohars.

They hover around these fiery petals.
But,
Never too close or they feel they would burn.

They wake with the other chirpers
As the first pink and plum blossoms over the horizon.
And
They are lovers, you would assume.

They are not.

They are merely gliding to the rhythmic tune
of the charmer,
Who shape-shifts and changes colour according to seasons.
They feel compelled to bow to the moods of his notes.
They think he follows the same rules he, so pompously, creates.
Well, if he can make them with a swelled up chest, he can bend them and melt them as he fancies.

Poor chaps just got caught up.
Flapping  and gliding endlessly, duty-bound to the melody of his reed.

Hurriedly, it scurries away.
Squeaking in an underbreath,
It digs a deep burrow.
Wrapping a double-leaved cloak around itself,
It lies inside a warm cavern,
Feeling safe.

Glass shattered on the floor,
Windows rattling violently,
Giving a sign of an impending storm.

Droplets comb the lake.
Pulling the water down so harshly,
It soon becomes an overflowing stream.

It shuts it's eyes tight.
Hearing the roaring thunder,
It burries it's head in it's deeply folded legs

The roof shatters and caves in
The surface itself runs helter skelter

It's a cycle, it was told
Life will run it's course

The storm would abandon it's beastiality.
And meekly scamper about for a while.
It will go back to trickling and murmuring
It will go back to where it began.

Come and see the glorious skies.
Feel beautiful galaxies
and soak up the lunar spirit.

Come on out and bathe in the sunshine
She's waiting for you just outside.

A beautiful dream, with the sunbird song

His looming shadow hung heavy.
I took a deep breath and turned around
To find tears in his eyes shimmering.
For ages he longed for me.
Sorry, I couldn't turn time
To that earlier point
when I recognized our synergy.

I am glad we met this day..
On the heights of the waves,
Look, We surf on the milky way!
It's liberating to chase you fearlessly.
From the enclosed,
Hopping and leaping on the winding stairs,
To this open and wild cliff joyfully.

I ran to the edge and flew for a while.
I don't know if it was a mile.

In that free space, I made my wings
of an undying love.
It was beautiful to glide under the star studded roof with the only one.

Even when he flew far away,
To places I had only imagined,
Under the vast horizon of myriad shades, light and shadow, rain and rainbow,
I have known that we're always together,
Forever and ever....
Beyond time.