SCAR

A scar in my chest, a scar in my brow,
a scar in my palm, a scar in my elbow.
Those scars fade, as time slips.
  
A scar in my psyche, a scar in my spirit.
a scar in my heart, a scar in my soul,
These invisible scars harden;
and toughen my emotion.

Be My Rock

Leaves blow away and weather will change
Holidays will pass in joy
Tragedies and trials pass in sorrow and woe

Animals and plant die out and away
Humans move on to another life
And very few people have little to say

They say each person can make a difference
I add But only if you try

They say that they love their neighbors
But yet they argue sue fight and cry

They are full of words and faith
Yet work doesn't accompany them

You are full of actions
They are your words

The love you show all
And compassion you present
Is startling to behold

You do make a difference in a life
My life is changed forever more

Our paths will part for a year or two
But maybe, just maybe the will join
Oh I can imagine the cheer

The leaves might blow but the rocks stay till
Please my love be my rock and I will be yours
For my life is always spring when you are close.

The Recipient Mindset

We're born to cry and whine.
Grow to demand and serve.
Live to acquire and consume
and die to receive a heavenly end

and everything imaginable
fits neatly inside
the recipient mindset.

Weird Chocolate Dream

What a weird dream
I dream of toblerone
but I wasn't eating it.
Instead using its wrapper
to answer a school quiz
 
There in the questionnaire
just written some persons' names
of heros and political figures.
 
So started writing in the chocolate wrapper
skipping some questions
and not bothered to answer some that I don't know.
wrap the wrapper back to the chocolate
as I searched for my toblerone
from the piles of chocolates
on the instructor's desk
I was not able to find it again.
I don't know what to fill on the blank,
whether to describe the person
or put their date of birth
and submitted it to the instructor
 
I'm about to leave the room
but turned back to the instructor
and asked what should be the answer to those
blanks to be filled beside the names.
then I woke up from my slumber
what a weird chocolate dream

The Zombie Song

The assassin nation , cheers another death
overwhelmingly , while the real enemy
seeks another ploy , to set it's sights on

and the zombie song, goes on and on
about freedom, justice, god and his son
who says to us now, blessed is the gun
and bless the killers, we put our hopes on

and the zombie song, just goes on and on,
death and more death, the procession is long,
the brain eating chorus, death rattles it's song
then devours itself, when the prey is gone

but the zombie song, still goes on
and on and on and on.

Death of my Childhood Place

I miss the place so much
where I could climb trees
ate star apples and green mangoes
from fruit trees near our house                
 
bath in the river
made a raft
out from banana or bamboo trunk
go boating with my brother
and enjoyed swimming in the river
 
Where we made a makeshift dam
got some catfish
or played  with the tadpoles
and shooed away the frogs
 
and on rainy day
played with my childhood friend
creating pots and anything from the mud
forming clay vases and figurines
and enjoy the drizzles of the rain
 
But father sold the place
and we moved to an urban zone
where trees don't bear fruits
and fruits are not on trees but on groceries.
and clays are beneath the cemented road
and during rainy days
people will not go out
and everyone seems so busy on
their business and their job
 
so in grief of my childhood place
and gone with it is my childhood stage

Growing Up

 I never grew up

I still like beer
like I did when I was 16
Mommy
Daddy
all my teachers
several bosses
lots of friends
they all told me to grow up
I never did
Even my children hint at it
Dad! Gotta love ya
and then they giggle
That is the part I love
And when my wife says...
That is just the way he is..
I even like that better.
A kid in an old mans body
How good can it get
x

Never again

 Never again will I be duped

Never again will I fall in your trap
 
Never again will I'll get near
to someone who is tricky, sly and foxy
 
Never again will you fool me
Never again will you bring me down
 
Never again will I let cruelty triumph
Never again will you make me cry
 
I'm stronger now and have grown in wisdom
and never again can you ruin my heart
x

Rare Find

It's a rare find these days,
to find a beautiful mature person.
It's is either
beautiful and still a baby,
or matured and ugly.
not because it's the natural law,
but because most of us grow,
bringing with us negativities.
It's not just because of the law of gravity,
that the skin sags and
eye bugs drop in asymmetry
but more because of keeping under our skin,
resentment, frustrations
unforgiveness,  
anger and envy.
and I'm not pointing here
mere physical beauty.
 
 
We can still grow old gracefully,
maybe not physically pretty.
but we can dress our personality
with grace, kindness and congeniality.
It doesn't need an expensive jewelry
to show or bring out the best in us.
 
a warm smile than a frown
a cheerful disposition than a "feeling down"
for sure can make us grow with inner calm.
 
like an unattractive duckling
into graceful swan
or like an ugly caterpillar
into a beautiful butterfly.
or like a pure gold
that keeps its luster
despite the passage of time.

The Best Version of Me

I'm thankful that He made me the way I am
I can't imagine myself
if He made me like Alexander the Great
or He made me like Socrates
I guess He made the best version of me
not so well known
but happy and contented on my own.
 
I don't know what if He made me like Gandhi
Surely it's not me anymore
so instead of questioning why He didn't made me
as handsome as the mythical Narcissus or Adonis
or as powerful as Napoleon
x
I know I am blessed because he made me
to be the best version of me.
 
He doesn't made all the flowers to be daisies
Some are roses, some are tulips, and some are lilies
He doesn't made all the birds to be eagles
some are bluebirds, and some are falcons
So thankful for the diversity
Brown, red, yellow, beige, white, black or blue
I'm thankful for the variety
for the wealth in diversity
and I know this is the best version of me.

Guilty Pleasure

I'm happy
but I feel guilty
of doing a thing which is others say…
a satiation to be abhorred
 
I'm living in this world…
of instilling what is moral
giving me  lingering guilt…
Instead of peace after the said gratifying sensations
 
I'm happy with what I have done
guilty pleasures!...
but the larvae and worms of religion
is pestering my conscience
 
I'm neither a monk nor a hermit…
I am flesh and not a spirit
I'm surrounded with heart-beating human…
who make my pandering emotions in wrangle
 
Perhaps!...
what the religion says as heavenly paradise…
is for the innocents…

Desert Head

Desert Head
Behaving like a child
infantile browbeating
stunted growth of the character
 
Desert head
like staring the desert sands
with no oasis therein
no grass and plants for the camels and the Bedouins
 
Desert head
hairs died on his toxic character
don't like to grow on the follicles
his poisonous blood make the hair falls
 
Desert head
a paradigm of a living dead
breathing but devoid of life
with heart hard and cold
moving but like a falling leaf
detach from the source of life
rotting
starting to degrade
the worms eagerly waiting.
  
headstrong
conceited
have to turn away from this desert head.

without self control

Survival of the Laziest

Reality check 
in the world of 'survival of the laziest'
the laziest one survives, the industrious one transfers
 
Survival of the laziest, 
the new sacred shibboleth
of the so called corporate
 
the laziest you are , the longer you stay
the enthusiastic you are , the more exhausted you are,
 in the so called workplace
 
just a reality check , why this thrive in the modern corporate
the laziest holds the power, the hard working still works the harder.

Recent Bachelor

> Now that I am a bachelor
> the beer doesn't taste as good
> I am not hungry
> I don't want to paint or write
> Reading sucks when there is no interruption
> American Idol is no fun without an argument
> There is no one to tell me I have to get up early
> So I can't sleep
>
> I have only been a bachelor for 20 hours
> my whole life has changed
> Plus the dogs look at me funny
> like part of me is missing

Have Faith

If you look for gold,  you'll find gold. 

If you'll look for love, you'll find love.

Money is a gift of God, use it properly. 

If you can obtain more, 

multiply the works for promoting God's glory!

The greatest of all sins is to lose hope. 

The laziest act is to stop dreaming.

The greatest loss is to give up on faith. 

Do something today to realize your dreams.

Mom, long gone

> Mom, long gone
> smoked a pack a day.
> Beginning in the day
> of total acceptance.
>
> When few feared
> the big death.
> If you didn't smoke
> you were left
>
> out of touch, detached
> and beyond control
> from those who know
> what's best for you.
>
> Similar I'd say
> to what's happening today.

We are the enemy

> We have lost ourselves
> in these gadgets of
> convenience.
>
> We have gotten so use
> to being propagandized
> we fail to recognize
> the propaganda.
>
> So we use the word
> to demonize
> the enemy.
> Failing to see
> we are the enemy.

Big Belly

Child hunger I have never known
I was well fed as a child
and so were mine and theirs
I never knew a person who went hungry
but they say they are out there
starving people in America?

I guess you could count me
as a teenager
when I saved my lunch money
all week
to buy beer and gas for the weekend
I was rather thin

If I see a starving child
I will let you know
maybe we can chip in
for a happy meal

BREAKING THE BLOCKS

The desire to live
became so passionate
that it lost its contours
and got into another shape:

Soon, i stopped thinking
of myself;
my self had become a heresy
so great was the pull

I soon realized
I was a lie;
and if I wanted to live
i must break the dye

I broke the blocks
which stood in between;
there was only earth
and upon it, the sky.

I am your reflection.....

I am your reflection,
Made by your passion,

Your blood also runs in my vain,
Hey dad I am your son,
I don't blame,

Why did you treated my like this,
Why did you left me to die,
Why didn't you killed me,
When I only knew how to cry,

Yo dad I am your reflection,
I am proud to be who I am,
Why can't you see things the way I can,
I still love you but I hate you too,
You forget me,

Like I was a bad dream for you,
Why I was to born this way,
I have a father, But I haven't seen him,
For years, months and days,
Hey god I am appealing to you,
Please tell me,

Dose my father knows I am alive,
I am shower he doesn't even know,
At what stage I am,

Just let him know,
I have a beard now dad,
I cry for you every day now dad,
Just please tell him,

I am standing on the gate for you dad,
Waiting to see you once again dad,
Because from this day forward it harts me to say,
I am your reflection,
There is nothing that I can do about that,
I am cursed with your name,
And I blame you for that