tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-300386812024-03-13T08:20:24.201+05:30The light shines the brightestVisheshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14452040774198026145noreply@blogger.comBlogger434125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30038681.post-12696031753636510212023-07-26T18:58:00.008+05:302023-07-26T18:59:37.379+05:30 The Forever city<p><span face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: 16px; font-variant-ligatures: none; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Suffocating, Struggling,</span></p><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><span face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 16px; font-variant-ligatures: none; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Strutting along,</span><br style="font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-variant-ligatures: none; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space-collapse: preserve;" /><br style="font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-variant-ligatures: none; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space-collapse: preserve;" /><span face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 16px; font-variant-ligatures: none; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Huffing and puffing</span><br style="font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-variant-ligatures: none; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space-collapse: preserve;" /><br style="font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-variant-ligatures: none; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space-collapse: preserve;" /><span face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 16px; font-variant-ligatures: none; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space-collapse: preserve;">In the heat, and rain,</span><br style="font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-variant-ligatures: none; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space-collapse: preserve;" /><br style="font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-variant-ligatures: none; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space-collapse: preserve;" /><span face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 16px; font-variant-ligatures: none; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space-collapse: preserve;">A moment is too precious to lose,</span><br style="font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-variant-ligatures: none; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space-collapse: preserve;" /><br style="font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-variant-ligatures: none; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space-collapse: preserve;" /><span face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 16px; font-variant-ligatures: none; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The now lasts forever,</span><br style="font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-variant-ligatures: none; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space-collapse: preserve;" /><br style="font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-variant-ligatures: none; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space-collapse: preserve;" /><span face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 16px; font-variant-ligatures: none; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Lest the money drops</span><br style="font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-variant-ligatures: none; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space-collapse: preserve;" /><br style="font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-variant-ligatures: none; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space-collapse: preserve;" /><span face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 16px; font-variant-ligatures: none; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space-collapse: preserve;">And the rents raise,</span><br style="font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-variant-ligatures: none; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space-collapse: preserve;" /><br style="font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-variant-ligatures: none; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space-collapse: preserve;" /><span face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 16px; font-variant-ligatures: none; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The meters recalibrate</span><br style="font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-variant-ligatures: none; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space-collapse: preserve;" /><br style="font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-variant-ligatures: none; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space-collapse: preserve;" /><span face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 16px; font-variant-ligatures: none; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space-collapse: preserve;">To tell, you aren't enough,</span><br style="font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-variant-ligatures: none; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space-collapse: preserve;" /><br style="font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-variant-ligatures: none; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space-collapse: preserve;" /><span face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 16px; font-variant-ligatures: none; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space-collapse: preserve;">And there's another to take your matchbox</span><br style="font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-variant-ligatures: none; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space-collapse: preserve;" /><br style="font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-variant-ligatures: none; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space-collapse: preserve;" /><span face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 16px; font-variant-ligatures: none; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space-collapse: preserve;">With fire within, and a hunger burning</span><br style="font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-variant-ligatures: none; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space-collapse: preserve;" /><br style="font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-variant-ligatures: none; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space-collapse: preserve;" /><span face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 16px; font-variant-ligatures: none; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space-collapse: preserve;">To conquer all that's in front, and behind-</span><br style="font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-variant-ligatures: none; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space-collapse: preserve;" /><br style="font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-variant-ligatures: none; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space-collapse: preserve;" /><span face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 16px; font-variant-ligatures: none; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space-collapse: preserve;">A forever jungle of hidden dreams, and varicose cement.</span><br style="font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-variant-ligatures: none; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space-collapse: preserve;" /><br style="font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-variant-ligatures: none; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space-collapse: preserve;" /><br style="font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-variant-ligatures: none; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space-collapse: preserve;" /><span face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 16px; font-variant-ligatures: none; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Bombay, </span><br style="font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-variant-ligatures: none; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space-collapse: preserve;" /><br style="font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-variant-ligatures: none; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space-collapse: preserve;" /><span face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 16px; font-variant-ligatures: none; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space-collapse: preserve;">An assault on your senses, </span><br style="font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-variant-ligatures: none; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space-collapse: preserve;" /><br style="font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-variant-ligatures: none; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space-collapse: preserve;" /><span face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 16px; font-variant-ligatures: none; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space-collapse: preserve;">An invasion on all you know, </span><br style="font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-variant-ligatures: none; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space-collapse: preserve;" /><br style="font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-variant-ligatures: none; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space-collapse: preserve;" /><span><span face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-variant-ligatures: none; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space-collapse: preserve;">A dichotomy reclaimed from itself </span></span></span><br style="font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-variant-ligatures: none; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space-collapse: preserve;" /><br style="font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-variant-ligatures: none; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space-collapse: preserve;" /><span face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 16px; font-variant-ligatures: none; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Yet </span><br style="font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-variant-ligatures: none; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space-collapse: preserve;" /><br style="font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-variant-ligatures: none; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space-collapse: preserve;" /><span face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 16px; font-variant-ligatures: none; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Where no one has a moment-</span><br style="font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-variant-ligatures: none; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space-collapse: preserve;" /><br style="font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-variant-ligatures: none; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space-collapse: preserve;" /><span face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 16px; font-variant-ligatures: none; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space-collapse: preserve;">A second isn't enough to earn a living</span><br style="font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-variant-ligatures: none; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space-collapse: preserve;" /><br style="font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-variant-ligatures: none; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space-collapse: preserve;" /><span face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 16px; font-variant-ligatures: none; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space-collapse: preserve;">And you need more than a vision-</span><br style="font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-variant-ligatures: none; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space-collapse: preserve;" /><br style="font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-variant-ligatures: none; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space-collapse: preserve;" /><span face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 16px; font-variant-ligatures: none; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space-collapse: preserve;">For all you can see is the concrete or the sea;</span><br style="font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-variant-ligatures: none; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space-collapse: preserve;" /><br style="font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-variant-ligatures: none; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space-collapse: preserve;" /><span face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 16px; font-variant-ligatures: none; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space-collapse: preserve;">An innate urge to live, </span><br style="font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-variant-ligatures: none; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space-collapse: preserve;" /><br style="font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-variant-ligatures: none; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space-collapse: preserve;" /><span face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 16px; font-variant-ligatures: none; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space-collapse: preserve;">To be, </span><br style="font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-variant-ligatures: none; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space-collapse: preserve;" /><br style="font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-variant-ligatures: none; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space-collapse: preserve;" /><span face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 16px; font-variant-ligatures: none; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Thoughtlessly driven, </span><br style="font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-variant-ligatures: none; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space-collapse: preserve;" /><br style="font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-variant-ligatures: none; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space-collapse: preserve;" /><span face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 16px; font-variant-ligatures: none; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space-collapse: preserve;">A mind without knowing its own exhaustion. </span><br style="font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-variant-ligatures: none; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space-collapse: preserve;" /><br style="font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-variant-ligatures: none; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space-collapse: preserve;" /><span face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 16px; font-variant-ligatures: none; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Bombay, </span><br style="font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-variant-ligatures: none; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space-collapse: preserve;" /><br style="font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-variant-ligatures: none; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space-collapse: preserve;" /><span face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 16px; font-variant-ligatures: none; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space-collapse: preserve;">A city that breathes, as it chokes, </span><br style="font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-variant-ligatures: none; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space-collapse: preserve;" /><br style="font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-variant-ligatures: none; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space-collapse: preserve;" /><span face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 16px; font-variant-ligatures: none; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Counted and counting, </span><br style="font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-variant-ligatures: none; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space-collapse: preserve;" /><br style="font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-variant-ligatures: none; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space-collapse: preserve;" /><span face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 16px; font-variant-ligatures: none; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Pumped by dopey fumes, </span><br style="font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-variant-ligatures: none; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space-collapse: preserve;" /><br style="font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-variant-ligatures: none; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space-collapse: preserve;" /><span face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 16px; font-variant-ligatures: none; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Jacked by vitamin M, </span><br style="font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-variant-ligatures: none; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space-collapse: preserve;" /><br style="font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-variant-ligatures: none; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space-collapse: preserve;" /><span face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 16px; font-variant-ligatures: none; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Deluded by its own grandeur </span><br style="font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-variant-ligatures: none; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space-collapse: preserve;" /><br style="font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-variant-ligatures: none; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space-collapse: preserve;" /><span face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 16px; font-variant-ligatures: none; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Growing and growing </span><br style="font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-variant-ligatures: none; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space-collapse: preserve;" /><br style="font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-variant-ligatures: none; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space-collapse: preserve;" /><span face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 16px; font-variant-ligatures: none; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Till all it sees is itself.</span><br style="font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-variant-ligatures: none; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space-collapse: preserve;" /><br style="font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-variant-ligatures: none; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space-collapse: preserve;" /><span face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 16px; font-variant-ligatures: none; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Parel or Vashi, </span></span></span><div><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: 16px; font-variant-ligatures: none; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space-collapse: preserve;">You can stand at a point of no return,</span></div><div><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: 16px; font-variant-ligatures: none; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space-collapse: preserve;">With some hope,</span></div><div><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><br style="font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-variant-ligatures: none; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space-collapse: preserve;" /><span face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 16px; font-variant-ligatures: none; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Peer at the sea</span><br style="font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-variant-ligatures: none; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space-collapse: preserve;" /><br style="font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-variant-ligatures: none; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space-collapse: preserve;" /><span face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 16px; font-variant-ligatures: none; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space-collapse: preserve;">And still think you are here, </span><br style="font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-variant-ligatures: none; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space-collapse: preserve;" /><br style="font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-variant-ligatures: none; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space-collapse: preserve;" /><span face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 16px; font-variant-ligatures: none; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space-collapse: preserve;">In this city, endless, </span><br style="font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-variant-ligatures: none; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space-collapse: preserve;" /><br style="font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-variant-ligatures: none; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space-collapse: preserve;" /><span face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 16px; font-variant-ligatures: none; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The forever city, </span><br style="font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-variant-ligatures: none; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space-collapse: preserve;" /><br style="font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-variant-ligatures: none; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space-collapse: preserve;" /><span face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 16px; font-variant-ligatures: none; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Bombay. </span></span></span></div>Visheshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14452040774198026145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30038681.post-32418943848787179702022-12-06T11:21:00.004+05:302022-12-06T11:32:26.920+05:30The paths to home<p><span face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: 16px; font-variant-ligatures: none; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space: pre-wrap;">All paths lead home,</span></p><span><span face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-variant-ligatures: none; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space: pre-wrap;">And you reach on a somber dusk morrow,</span></span></span><div><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: 16px; font-variant-ligatures: none; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space: pre-wrap;">To find that the garbage smell is now perfumed,</span></div><div><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><br style="font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-variant-ligatures: none; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><span face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 16px; font-variant-ligatures: none; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space: pre-wrap;">The dark alleys are now with rude advertisements of hope,</span><br style="font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-variant-ligatures: none; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><br style="font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-variant-ligatures: none; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><span face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 16px; font-variant-ligatures: none; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space: pre-wrap;">The silent corners now choke with fumes from SUVs and their desperate honking ruckus,</span><br style="font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-variant-ligatures: none; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><br style="font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-variant-ligatures: none; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><span face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 16px; font-variant-ligatures: none; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space: pre-wrap;">The broken windows of a forgotten home, is now a mall with anonymous black glass panes.</span><br style="font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-variant-ligatures: none; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><br style="font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-variant-ligatures: none; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><span face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 16px; font-variant-ligatures: none; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><span face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 16px; font-variant-ligatures: none; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space: pre-wrap;">All just a moment away from the truth,</span><br style="font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-variant-ligatures: none; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><br style="font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-variant-ligatures: none; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><span face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 16px; font-variant-ligatures: none; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Clinging on, tight-fisted, red-eyed, lest dreams takeover</span><br style="font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-variant-ligatures: none; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><br style="font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-variant-ligatures: none; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><span><span face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-variant-ligatures: none; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space: pre-wrap;">And you see the fecund fake rumble and rubbish,</span></span></span><br style="font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-variant-ligatures: none; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><br style="font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-variant-ligatures: none; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><span face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 16px; font-variant-ligatures: none; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space: pre-wrap;">In crass giggles and matchbox homes,</span><br style="font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-variant-ligatures: none; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><br style="font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-variant-ligatures: none; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><span face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 16px; font-variant-ligatures: none; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Cenotaphs for a drugged nation.</span></span></span></div><div><span face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: 16px; font-variant-ligatures: none; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><div><span face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: 16px; font-variant-ligatures: none; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><div><span face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-variant-ligatures: none; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space: pre-wrap;">All hope spun from trauma,</span></span></div><div><span face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-variant-ligatures: none; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-variant-ligatures: none; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Of generations upon generations, </span></span></div><div><span face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-variant-ligatures: none; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif"><span><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-variant-ligatures: none; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Caste, creed, skin color, religion,</span></span></span></div><div><span face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-variant-ligatures: none; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-variant-ligatures: none; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Thoughtless rage, and mindless veneration. </span></span></div><div><span face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-variant-ligatures: none; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-variant-ligatures: none; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><span face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-variant-ligatures: none; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space: pre-wrap;">All vanity, a</span></span><span face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif" style="font-variant-ligatures: none; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> patented hubris,</span></span></span></div><div><span face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-variant-ligatures: none; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><span face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-variant-ligatures: none; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space: pre-wrap;">3D holograms of smiling </span></span><span face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif" style="font-variant-ligatures: none; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space: pre-wrap;">bearded </span><span face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif" style="font-variant-ligatures: none; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space: pre-wrap;">men,</span></span></span></div><div><span face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: black; color: white; font-variant-ligatures: none; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><div><span><span face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-variant-ligatures: none; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Posed and poised upon a pedestal, all too high,</span></span></span></div><div><span><span face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-variant-ligatures: none; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-variant-ligatures: none; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space: pre-wrap;">For those of mere commonsense to question. </span></span></div><div><span face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-variant-ligatures: none; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-variant-ligatures: none; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-variant-ligatures: none; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space: pre-wrap;">All roads lead away,</span></span></div><div><span face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-variant-ligatures: none; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif"><span><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-variant-ligatures: none; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space: pre-wrap;">A journey through forsaken lanes,</span></span></span></div><div><span face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif"><span><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-variant-ligatures: none; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-variant-ligatures: none; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Where myths of muscle and grit,</span></span></div><div><span face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-variant-ligatures: none; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-variant-ligatures: none; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Grime and slime, farce phases of progress,</span></span></div><div><span face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-variant-ligatures: none; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-variant-ligatures: none; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Peel away like hastily laid tar,</span></span></div><div><span face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-variant-ligatures: none; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-variant-ligatures: none; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Sophisticated pancake for the real man,</span></span></div><div><span face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-variant-ligatures: none; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-variant-ligatures: none; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Lest you think everything is a hologram. </span></span></div><div><span face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-variant-ligatures: none; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-variant-ligatures: none; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif"><span><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-variant-ligatures: none; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space: pre-wrap;">All homes smell of old ancestors, </span></span></span></div><div><span face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif"><span><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-variant-ligatures: none; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif"><span><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-variant-ligatures: none; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space: pre-wrap;">You just have to live long enough. </span></span></span></div><div><span face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif"><span><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-variant-ligatures: none; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-variant-ligatures: none; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Layers of roads upon lakes and towns, </span></span></div><div><span face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-variant-ligatures: none; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-variant-ligatures: none; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space: pre-wrap;">How far deep do you want to dig? </span></span></div><div><span face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-variant-ligatures: none; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-variant-ligatures: none; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Maybe to strike water, </span></span></div><div><span face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-variant-ligatures: none; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-variant-ligatures: none; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Or oil,</span></span></div><div><span face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-variant-ligatures: none; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-variant-ligatures: none; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Or maybe an effigy, </span></span></div><div><span face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-variant-ligatures: none; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-variant-ligatures: none; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>Of an old truth, </span></span></div><div><span face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-variant-ligatures: none; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-variant-ligatures: none; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Which still hasn't been burnt at a stake. </span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: black; color: white; font-variant-ligatures: none; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></div><div><span face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #202124;"><span style="background-color: white; font-variant-ligatures: none; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></div>Visheshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14452040774198026145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30038681.post-83084471620031146912022-03-01T09:47:00.000+05:302022-03-01T09:47:08.278+05:30Green<p>Muddy village roads between green fields,</p><p>Measured and quartered between families;</p><p>Pledged and seized, </p><p>For dowry,</p><p>For a son-in-law who ran away six months later</p><p>With a neighbour's daughter,</p><p>On the last bus to the big town.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here's where the fire last ate,</p><p>The once green grass and wild bush,</p><p>Dried by a relentless summer sun,</p><p>Every last drop licked clean;</p><p>Till a nonchalant tourist lit a cigarette</p><p>And awoke a deep-held desire</p><p>To scourge the land barren,</p><p>A glorious flame that ran past boundaries</p><p>And left the tiger nothing but farm chicken to eat.</p><p><br /></p><p>Manicured paths amongst green bamboo trees,</p><p>Calls of songbirds, and one, beautiful and desperate</p><p>For a mate, for a flock, a murder, a raison d'etre.</p><p>The last of the species, he cries and sings,</p><p>All in vain, </p><p>But for the award-winning photograph, </p><p>Hung in a gallery, </p><p>Neat and chic on a sour cream wall, </p><p>Mostly lifeless, </p><p>Almost withering, hopeless.</p><p><br /></p><p>Green number plates with tax breaks</p><p>Silent scooties that honk mercilessly, </p><p>Up and down bumpy roads, stirring dust, setting off allergies.</p><p>A planet in crisis-- the storms no more blow </p><p>as per ancient winds, </p><p>But are carried by young fury, </p><p>Hot-blooded without empathy,</p><p>From afar and near, as if gathered by a religion,</p><p>An incandescent sky who may have been a God,</p><p>But now a fallen deva, bemoaning a pralaya</p><p>A fallen angel, hell too is a duty.</p><p><br /></p><p>In the beginning, there was a green leaf,</p><p>And on it a baby with a toe in mouth,</p><p>Tongue-in-cheek at a species which </p><p>will forget itself in avarice and glory.</p><p>In the beginning were two, </p><p>maybe green, maybe blue, </p><p>we don't know, for we can't see, </p><p>our sight too narrow and firmly tied </p><p>by eons of the hunt and scurry. </p><p>In the end, there will be,</p><p>Something endlessly green, pink, white, black,</p><p>Or maybe nothing. </p><p>When no human sees, </p><p>does it even matter for our memory?</p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #202124; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-variant-ligatures: none; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #202124; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-variant-ligatures: none; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space: pre-wrap;">துள்ளும் இளம் காண்</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #202124; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-variant-ligatures: none; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space: pre-wrap;">கற்றவன் கோவிலில் தஞ்சம் கேட்டானாம்</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #202124; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-variant-ligatures: none; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space: pre-wrap;">பச்சை இளம் துளிர் நுநியில் முடிவிலி</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #202124; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-variant-ligatures: none; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space: pre-wrap;">நான் அறிந்ததோ முற்றிலும் துளி.</span></p><p><br style="background-color: white; color: #202124; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-variant-ligatures: none; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /></p>Visheshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14452040774198026145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30038681.post-51890557547763589272020-08-06T13:41:00.003+05:302020-08-06T16:24:23.626+05:30I Parcel my dreams ahead I parcel my dreams ahead <div>In the longhorn of a goods train,</div><div>Passing silent homes, chugging south,</div><div>On tracks almost dead,</div><div>Past stations, empty and bereft. </div><div><br /></div><div>The pendulums of civilisation sway a bit slower,</div><div> And the seconds seem to last much longer,</div><div>In this day that never seems to end,</div><div>One with many seasons, and lives, </div><div>An abeyance stuck in crisis; of its own shadow, affright.</div><div><br /></div><div>The summer was an hour ago,</div><div>The mangoes fresh and ripe,</div><div>To be pickled and souffled,</div><div>Cut and quartered, fought over,</div><div>Like nations over imaginary borders. </div><div><br /></div><div>The fear hangs on like a grandfather clock,</div><div>In the silence of midnight, you hear its sway,</div><div>An inheritance, generation upon generation, </div><div>Waiting, and waiting more, for time to pass,</div><div>Or to know the bug is no more. </div><div><br /></div><div>The torn days of the calendar lay</div><div>In the nooks and crannies of a staircase landing,</div><div>Tera Incognita, waiting to be swept away someday, </div><div>By broom or breeze,</div><div>Into forgotten dreams.</div><div><br /></div><div>The spiders come and go,</div><div>And weeds eat into the concrete;</div><div>As the sun crosses back to south, </div><div>An evening breeze whispers</div><div>Scandalous tales, and salacious conspiracies. </div><div><br /></div><div>Into the embers of the dying west, </div><div>Someday, I shall go,</div><div>Aboard a flight with bad coffee,</div><div>Cardboard sandwiches and tinned hope,</div><div>Packed and parcelled for bonded souls. </div><div> </div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div> </div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div> </div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>Visheshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14452040774198026145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30038681.post-22639299943679042972020-04-03T21:18:00.001+05:302020-04-13T21:46:24.390+05:30Stillness<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Is a city even alive if nothing moves?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space: pre-wrap;">The long horn of the trains that rush south,</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space: pre-wrap;">The flights dropping their wheels to land home,</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space: pre-wrap;">The blaring honking rowdy roads-- </span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space: pre-wrap;">All comatose, </span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> almost lifeless, </span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space: pre-wrap;">no murmur, no breath.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Stillness.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space: pre-wrap;">The street lights burn, and the crows caw sleeplessly,</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #202124; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space: pre-wrap;">The racketing parakeets scream past free,</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space: pre-wrap;">A lonely kite surveys its next meal;</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Yet, </span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Stillness.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br style="font-family: roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space: pre-wrap;" />
<span style="font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space: pre-wrap;">There are whispers, there is a mild laughter,</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space: pre-wrap;">But the fear hangs in the air like a colloidal dream--</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space: pre-wrap;">How small is a strand of RNA?</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br style="font-family: roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space: pre-wrap;" />
<span style="font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space: pre-wrap;">So small that we cannot imagine till we see.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Stillness. </span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br style="font-family: roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space: pre-wrap;" />
<span style="font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space: pre-wrap;">This now is too long to bear, </span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Is there a moratorium on life?</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Can we wake up day after and find the world as it was? </span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br style="font-family: roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space: pre-wrap;" />
<span style="font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Nagaram, </span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space: pre-wrap;">A city is that which moves. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space: pre-wrap;">And when it ceases to be, </span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space: pre-wrap;">We are all dead, even if a bit alive. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br style="font-family: roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space: pre-wrap;" />
<span style="font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space: pre-wrap;">All those soles burnt on the dug up roads,</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Now I am a prisoner, self-constrained.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space: pre-wrap;">The hours flow into one another, </span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.1px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tomorrow is still part of the same dream. </span></div>
Visheshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14452040774198026145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30038681.post-23997028259794477692019-10-12T12:02:00.003+05:302019-10-12T12:02:30.537+05:30Breathe<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Breathe,<br />
<br />
Let go,<br />
<br />
Breathe.<br />
<br />
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Can you see time,<br />
<br />
Can you<br />
<br />
<br />
Be born,<br />
<br />
Be alive,<br />
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And die,<br />
<br />
In just this present,<br />
<br />
<br />
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A now forever,<br />
<br />
Where it all lasts forever,<br />
<br />
And then just doesn't.<br />
<br />
<br />
Are you just a dream?<br />
<br />
What if a moment is all there is,<br />
<br />
Time nothing but a persistence,<br />
<br />
Life, a feeling that refuses to go away.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
Can you wake up every day?<br />
<br />
See,<br />
<br />
The light streaming in;<br />
<br />
Moonlight,<br />
<br />
The shore you crave is 5 miles away.<br />
<br />
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Maybe memories,<br />
<br />
<br />
Maybe.<br />
<br />
<br />
But now,<br />
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live,<br />
<br />
Be alive.<br />
<br />
Live.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
Breathe,<br />
<br />
Let go,<br />
<br />
Breathe.<br />
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Visheshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14452040774198026145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30038681.post-88148866101625746392019-05-26T17:51:00.002+05:302019-05-26T17:54:11.200+05:30Dreams<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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There are your dreams,<br />
<br />
And then there are mine,<br />
<br />
But all I wish to know is ours.<br />
<br />
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Let me see the stars twinkle in your eyes,<br />
<br />
And the ocean sand between our toes;<br />
<br />
Let the summer moon cast its long shadows,<br />
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On us, and<br />
<br />
Our footprints on this silent shore.<br />
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To hold this moment forever— </div>
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<br />
Misty car windows, and a slow patter rain,<br />
<br />
A wish-lash,<br />
<br />
Together,<br />
<br />
We close our eyes and blow.<br />
<br />
<br />
Rowdy parakeets on a summer noon,<br />
<br />
Chillies, and mangoes,<br />
<br />
The sunglasses cannot hide<br />
<br />
The laughter in our eyes,<br />
<br />
The joy in our words,<br />
<br />
unsaid,<br />
<br />
In the tip of our tongues,<br />
<br />
felt.<br />
<br />
<br />
This is our now—<br />
<br />
Hand in hand;<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
This was our yesterday—<br />
<br />
Silent whispers of hope;<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
This is our morrow—<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
The stained leaves at the bottom of the cup know.<br />
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Visheshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14452040774198026145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30038681.post-7473252412371604222019-04-28T18:30:00.001+05:302019-04-28T18:30:45.464+05:30The aircon<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
There are sunsets and numbers that add into themselves,<br />
<br />
There are green fields, and sum of parts,<br />
<br />
Snowy deserts that stretch to infinity,<br />
<br />
Ice that melts like hope on a warm Madras day.<br />
<br />
<br />
Every 'morrow is a waking,<br />
<br />
A day to do your shoelaces and ties,<br />
<br />
To adjust watches, and judge the time,<br />
<br />
To never sleep, but dream with your eyes open.<br />
<br />
<br />
Summer lasts forever in my city,<br />
<br />
The aircon at twenty-seven degree C is my winter,<br />
<br />
My snow-capped peaks, my pashmina,<br />
<br />
My Buddha in minus five, smiling with belief.<br />
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Visheshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14452040774198026145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30038681.post-16209738469505206932019-03-30T13:25:00.000+05:302019-03-30T13:25:26.099+05:30Hope<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<br />
I.<br />
<br />
Angsty hope of childhood,<br />
<br />
A distant memory,<br />
<br />
Dirty shoes and tip-toeing<br />
<br />
To avoid the check after the assembly.<br />
<br />
<br />
Angsty hope of youth,<br />
<br />
Not so long ago,<br />
<br />
Trying to slip in with slippers,<br />
<br />
Past the bar-tender high on club rules.<br />
<br />
<br />
Angsty hope of the twenties,<br />
<br />
The morrow stretches forever,<br />
<br />
Past summers and winters,<br />
<br />
Hope a bachelor, mouldy and grouse.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
II.<br />
<br />
If magic doesn't happen even with all the believing,<br />
<br />
Then there's no point to moon risings or rainbows,<br />
<br />
Then there's no point in wondering at the stars,<br />
<br />
There's no point in roaming the empty roads,<br />
<br />
There's no hope in the serenade of the sleepless crows.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
III.<br />
<br />
Not all dreams are seen in your sleep,<br />
<br />
Some are lived between prosaic every day,<br />
<br />
In the midst of a summer drought,<br />
<br />
In the eye of a winter cyclone,<br />
<br />
In a garden of fallen trees and dead flowers,<br />
<br />
The long walk along the road that ever ends,<br />
<br />
The yearning at waves that are never lost for sounds.<br />
<br />
<br />
IV.<br />
<br />
The clocks show the same time every day,<br />
<br />
The long hand losing the race again and again,<br />
<br />
Tick after tick, each lasting an eternity.<br />
<br />
Time is seen in the wrinkles on our foreheads,<br />
<br />
And the voice of your grandfather, now dead.<br />
<br />
The embers shall swallow your memories,<br />
<br />
Songs on Gods who maybe, and you.<br />
<br />
There's no road sign to your street,<br />
<br />
None to mark your house,<br />
<br />
The memories lurk like strangers in a station,<br />
<br />
Forever looking into the distance<br />
<br />
For a train that never shall come.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
V.<br />
<br />
Maybe life is a long moment,<br />
<br />
Which shall end for that's how long a moment lasts.<br />
<br />
Maybe life is a dream,<br />
<br />
Which ends when you wake up to the other, now and then.<br />
<br />
Maybe life is a memory,<br />
<br />
Which shall fade away into a non-existence.<br />
<br />
Maybe life is hope,<br />
<br />
A quest forever, a quest to reach evermore.<br />
<br />
<br />
VI.<br />
<br />
Silence<br />
<br />
<br />
VII.<br />
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<br /></div>
Visheshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14452040774198026145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30038681.post-76613732507976845052019-01-03T12:18:00.003+05:302019-01-03T23:31:25.040+05:30ஓசை<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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தென்றல் வீச , அலைகள் ஓங்க</div>
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நீ பாடடா , நம் சுதந்திர ஓசை.</div>
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அடங்காதே , மிரளாதே,</div>
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உன் குரல் அடர் உடைக்கும்,</div>
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நம் வாழ்வு இனி மண்ணுக்கும் இசைக்கும் .</div>
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பாவம் காற்றில் நடனம் ஆட</div>
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மனம் மோகித்து இன்பம் பெற</div>
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பாடடா,பாடடா</div>
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நம் சுதந்திர ஓசை.</div>
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ஏங்கும் உன்னிதம் இங்கு உள்ளதோ</div>
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வியப்பும் ஒரு இதம் தருமோ,</div>
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பாடடா,பாடடா</div>
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நம் மறுவழி ஓசை.</div>
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எத்திசையும் உறுதி ஓங்கும் </div>
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அகம் நம்பி பலம் ஓதும்</div>
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இனி பாடடா,பாடடா</div>
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நம் பரம் ஓசை.</div>
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தென்றல் வீச , அலைகள் ஓங்க</div>
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நீ பாடடா , நம் சுதந்திர ஓசை.</div>
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அடங்காதே , மிரளாதே,</div>
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உன் குரல் அடர் உடைக்கும்,</div>
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நம் வாழ்வு இனி மண்ணுக்கும் இசைக்கும் .</div>
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Visheshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14452040774198026145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30038681.post-39719794956839904822018-09-08T20:16:00.002+05:302018-09-08T20:16:46.861+05:30Nine Paintings<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
This is a portrait of a dying plant,<br />
It stands in agony, shrivelled;<br />
A drought consumed its dreams,<br />
And wayside it lay, no one to tend,<br />
On soil red, ground for a year barren.<br />
<br />
We know not who she was,<br />
But her beauty persists like a childhood memory;<br />
Her lips were red, eyes blue,<br />
We recall- she was beautiful surely?<br />
Five nights you think otherwise, but let her be.<br />
<br />
It could be a nightmare, but you stayed awake.<br />
It lingers on for days, and when your red-eyes shut,<br />
You are woken up by the very image.<br />
Your love bought it for you to keep, a parting gift,<br />
And it haunts like a fateful night, the clock stuck at half past eight.<br />
<br />
The war ended a few years ago,<br />
But the memory of violence remains still,<br />
The child lies dead on a mother's lap,<br />
The field is red, and the sky a grey,<br />
We can remember if we will. But we can forget.<br />
<br />
You want it to be something,<br />
But did the artist care to mean?<br />
There's a riot of colours, a splash of green and red,<br />
This is art we concur,<br />
But our education isn't enough. Maybe despite it, we can.<br />
<br />
The king ruled for a hundred years<br />
He was a fat man of red vengeance.<br />
He killed a million, tortured more,<br />
In his name men raped and ravaged,<br />
But he built these temples of old stone, with no concrete.<br />
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It is your city ninety years ago,<br />
A tram line runs on Mount road,<br />
Men wear turbans and carry a stick;<br />
There are no other oppressors in sight,<br />
Except for a name board in bright red. Can you read?<br />
<br />
Agape, bright pinks and reds, made up and blown,<br />
Neon light highlights, do you want to buy some more?<br />
Maybe sell your soul or your house,<br />
For a scratch of ecstasy, a bit of debauchery,<br />
Or maybe a house built on a lake to drown your dreams.<br />
<br />
For the third step there was nowhere,<br />
Except for August on the calendar;<br />
Will Mahabali comeback and stand upright?<br />
There's an umbrella, there are signs,<br />
You note the date in red and decide to sleep in late.<br />
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Visheshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14452040774198026145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30038681.post-33782019364863310882018-06-12T10:51:00.001+05:302018-06-12T10:51:40.788+05:30Evermore<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
There is now,<br />
And this is my evermore.<br />
The clocks remain still,<br />
And the hands that move them have no will.<br />
<br />
There's a breeze that blows from the south-west,<br />
The homeless set their beds on bus-stop benches,<br />
And the last bus passes by- no one to get out or in-<br />
You can't miss a bus that never stops, rushing past.<br />
<br />
The bats flutter across the sunset,<br />
As dark as night, elegant and intent,<br />
So what if you can't see, just listen,<br />
The world is cat's ball of wool, strings set free.<br />
<br />
The horns blare and race,<br />
There are homes elsewhere,<br />
There are midnight cravings, and moments of hope,<br />
There's somewhere to be now, and else on the morrow.<br />
<br />
The signals blink amber, look and proceed they beg,<br />
But the blinding light race as fast and as far,<br />
There's this moment where you see it all as a distant star,<br />
You look and chase, and it is still far away, this is evermore.<br />
<br />
The dog packs give chase with rage brewed all day,<br />
The tea stalls that threw them biscuits remain still;<br />
There are no masters, there's no art, or other living in the now-<br />
Pulled by gravity, torn by speed, to remain in evermore.<br />
<br />
There's a weak crescent moon rising at a distant shore,<br />
The waves never remain still, even in evermore.<br />
<br />
The caws of the sleepless try to drown the aircon,<br />
But the summer air is too hot, and the crows too tired,<br />
They try and as they might, to say a bit more,<br />
But all you can do is, live, and hope, in evermore.<br />
<br />
There is now,<br />
And this is my evermore.<br />
The clocks remain still,<br />
And the hands that move them have no will.<br />
<br />
This is now,<br />
And this is my evermore.<br />
<br />
This is evermore.<br />
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Visheshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14452040774198026145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30038681.post-73567396013712117682018-04-18T14:31:00.000+05:302018-04-18T14:31:09.383+05:30Write me a eulogy when I am no more<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Write me a eulogy when I am no more.<br />
<br />
Write me a eulogy when I am no more,<br />
Read it aloud to yourself, my l'amour.<br />
<br />
Write me a eulogy when I am no more,<br />
Tear it up and scatter it with the winds,<br />
Let me be unknown, let me be evermore.<br />
<br />
Write me a eulogy when I am no more,<br />
Tell them who I am, and the sparkle in my eyes,<br />
That of me which may ever die. Burn the paper,<br />
Wear the ashes, let me never be known.<br />
<br />
Write me a eulogy when I am no more,<br />
Believe that I may be in a better place,<br />
Forget your pain in joys that we have known.<br />
Rest a while, reread and rewrite,<br />
Till I fade away like a falling star, that once shone.<br />
<br />
Write me a eulogy when I am no more,<br />
Find me in my drafts, bind them together,<br />
Let no one know who I was, or where I am;<br />
Find a place with no breeze, Earth broken,<br />
Lay them six feet under, with no epithet,<br />
No stone, to be eaten away by time, alone.<br />
<br />
Write me a eulogy when I am no more.<br />
Close your eyes, and in the darkness see me,<br />
Don't forget, for we are nothing but memories<br />
when long gone; scattered bits of paper,<br />
Fading ink- into a million pieces, torn.<br />
<br />
Write me a eulogy when I am no more,<br />
Hear me breathe in the evening breeze,<br />
Tall coconut trees, and rowdy parakeets,<br />
The smell of home, camphor and beach.<br />
<br />
Write me a eulogy when I am no more,<br />
Let me go, set me free, but hold on to our memories,<br />
Find me in the evening dew, find me in evermore.<br />
<br />
Write me a eulogy when I am no more,<br />
Read it aloud to yourself, my l'amour.<br />
<br />
Write me a eulogy when I am no more.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br /></div>
Visheshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14452040774198026145noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30038681.post-81058897776253663542017-12-20T11:08:00.000+05:302017-12-20T11:08:13.315+05:30Infinity<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
A hundred years of Solitude,<br />
A lifetime of Silences,<br />
A forever that outlasts itself,<br />
A time immeasurable and immense.<br />
<br />
To hold the world in the palm of your hands,<br />
To count the breaths as if to measure the winds,<br />
To see the world in three steps and no more,<br />
To hear nothing, but the voice- your own.<br />
<br />
அறிந்தது உணர்வு, உணர்வின் மயக்கம்,<br />
தன் இன்பத்தின் மோகம் பெறுக,<br />
வடிவம்பெறா வையம் கற்பிக்க<br />
தன் இழந்து தான் அறியும் வழி.<br />
<br />
To behold beauty in all you see,<br />
To find peace within, amidst volatility,<br />
To yearn to live albeit the terror and malice,<br />
To seek meaning for itself, forthright.<br />
<br />
To be yourself, and be all that you are,<br />
To seek not desire, nor despair,<br />
To hold still the world, unshaken, unstirred,<br />
To let be, to let be, as it is, as it can be. <br />
<br />
தஞ்சம் பெற, தன் குறிக்கும் நீதி பெற,<br />
தன் வழி அறிய தான் மனம் ஏங்குக.<br />
திரை எல்லை கடந்து அகம் அறிந்தோர்க்கு எல்லாம்,<br />
அமைதியில் நிற்க, நிற்படுத்த, அறிவார் முடிவிலி.<br />
<br />
<div>
<br /></div>
</div>
Visheshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14452040774198026145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30038681.post-69492773971310557362017-10-10T10:23:00.003+05:302017-10-10T10:23:31.173+05:30Silences<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
There are no words,<br />
Only silences.<br />
<br />
There are dreams,<br />
That live till the memory fails.<br />
<br />
There is love,<br />
A memory written in your cursive.<br />
<br />
There is the nothing,<br />
A lifetime without silences.<br />
<br />
There is I,<br />
Upright, and alone.<br />
<br />
There is hope,<br />
That lingers as a long lost dream.<br />
<br />
There is a memory,<br />
An evanescent winter.<br />
<br />
There is Madras,<br />
Home, and all that I know.<br />
<br />
There are no words,<br />
Only silences.<br />
<br />
There are silences,<br />
Those that I call my own.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br /></div>
Visheshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14452040774198026145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30038681.post-70582267292066406462017-06-05T23:58:00.002+05:302017-06-06T09:53:22.551+05:30Us<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Tell me my name,<br />
<br />
So I never forget.<br />
<br />
Remind me who I am,<br />
<br />
Lest I become someone else.<br />
<br />
<br />
Tell me our love,<br />
<br />
Hold my hands and never let go.<br />
<br />
Let me look into your eyes,<br />
<br />
To find my better self, evermore.<br />
<br />
<br />
Tell me your name,<br />
<br />
In whispers, slowly.<br />
<br />
Let us abandon,<br />
<br />
The measured tenses of coerced civility.<br />
<br />
<br />
Tell the clocks to forget us,<br />
<br />
As if the night has no memory.<br />
<br />
Let time stay afar to watch,<br />
<br />
This moment that lasts as ours.<br />
<br />
<br />
Tell the world to look away,<br />
<br />
We are but shadows in sway puppetry.<br />
<br />
Let us search for a star light,<br />
<br />
A shimmy a'small on the twilight.<br />
<br />
<br />
Tell no one who we are,<br />
<br />
Lest they try to find us.<br />
<br />
Let us remain as we are,<br />
<br />
Unbound and limitless.<br />
<br />
<br />
Tell the infinity to hold itself,<br />
<br />
A'life of calm till it becomes breathless.<br />
<br />
Nothing remains but us,<br />
<br />
An ode to our Amadeus.<br />
<br />
<br /></div>
Visheshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14452040774198026145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30038681.post-70971196922894560792017-04-04T20:53:00.000+05:302017-04-04T20:55:41.336+05:30Tonight<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Tonight, can we forget our politics,<br />
Can we forget the different things we believe in,<br />
the Gods we worship and don't.<br />
<br />
Tonight, can we feel ourselves to be human,<br />
Can we let silence dance and tickle our senses a bit?<br />
<br />
Tonight, can we have a moment of quiet oneness,<br />
A small rock under a vast and infinite sky,<br />
So ignorant that we know not how little we know.<br />
<br />
Tonight, can this be all that lasts,<br />
For a moment's peace is worth all our belief.<br />
<br />
Tonight, can we let tonight be,<br />
Stay a while, and be you and me,<br />
Our hope, our lives, different only relatively.<br />
<br />
Tonight can be,<br />
Let us be tonight.<br />
<br />
Tonight,<br />
<br />
Be.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br /></div>
Visheshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14452040774198026145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30038681.post-76936754689044029312017-02-12T18:05:00.000+05:302017-02-12T22:13:11.516+05:30Infinity<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<br />
<br />
To hold the world in the palm of your hand,<br />
<br />
To see tomorrow as a dream,<br />
<br />
To wake up to find yourself as infinity,<br />
<br />
To be I,<br />
<br />
To be you,<br />
<br />
To be.<br />
<br />
<br />
Belief lasts, as long as you choose to,<br />
<br />
And the world is all you believe it to be.<br />
<br />
<br />
Life's but a waking dream,<br />
<br />
Infinity, a pursuit that lasts itself.<br />
<br />
<br />
தான் மறந்து,<br />
<br />
ஆற்றல் எழுந்து,<br />
<br />
அகண்ட புணர்ச்சி.<br />
<br />
நிற்பதுவும் அகமே,<br />
<br />
நிலையில்லா முடிவிலி.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
The light shines the brightest.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br /></div>
Visheshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14452040774198026145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30038681.post-57097118726424314542016-11-30T00:11:00.003+05:302016-11-30T00:11:46.384+05:30The night and I conspire<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The night and I conspire,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">To never let a human be my love,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ever again;</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A Hope that betrays senses and joy,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A lifetime of wont manifest buried under a rubble,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So dense that nothing remains,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But the silence.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This silence is mine, and mine alone,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A line infinite, a world unbound,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We live breath-held, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Till neither can any more. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If this is forever,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Then a moment is all there is,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Consciousness conspired</span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">-</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">To never begin nor end. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This night and I,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We remain, we stay, we live,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The pause between her verses,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The gleam of teeth between her lips. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Human, never. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Maybe. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If she is. </span><br />
<div>
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div>
<div>
<br />
<br />
<br /></div>
</div>
</div>
Visheshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14452040774198026145noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30038681.post-64612124743286383332016-10-22T13:30:00.001+05:302016-10-22T13:30:05.514+05:30Humanity<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
What remains is the first light through the storm clouds,<br />
<br />
And a heavy sigh of an old lady with ten sons<br />
<br />
Who are nowhere, but a daughter who left her husband.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
Plunder, and the world shifts, dried blood in the sands<br />
<br />
Are swept around in swirls of remorseful history,<br />
<br />
Tales of valour die as fast as they are born,<br />
<br />
An instant less than the last life who knew the heroes.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
She, he, whatever- the land,<br />
<br />
It stands still, a gashed being which heals over time,<br />
<br />
For the forests shall grow again, and the mountains shift;<br />
<br />
The human tears dried the second they hit the parched earth.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
We are transient beings who for all our vanity perish.<br />
<br />
The world isn't the one that needs saving-<br />
<br />
In our thirst we shall drink each others' blood,<br />
<br />
In our hunger, dig the jaws into ourselves.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
Our history is for us and our future, beyond,<br />
<br />
The books shall rot, and shall lose form,<br />
<br />
The web shall tangle itself, gnarled<br />
<br />
Listless, powerless, strangle itself.<br />
<br />
<br />
Humanity- you, I, we-<br />
<br />
We are ugly and beautiful-<br />
<br />
We shall be gone all too soon,<br />
<br />
The mirror shall have none to tell the truth.<br />
<br />
<br />
The ruins shall have no admirers,<br />
<br />
And there will be no mighty lord to beget a son<br />
<br />
Who can take you to lands or planets safer-<br />
<br />
There's no home for those who doom themselves.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
Peace, peace, peace-<br />
<br />
For who knows what's there<br />
<br />
When no one is there to know.<br />
<br />
Peace, peace, peace. </div>
Visheshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14452040774198026145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30038681.post-72213785979872969932016-09-28T12:27:00.000+05:302016-09-28T12:27:14.607+05:30Silences<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<br />
Silences.<br />
<br />
The moment as the page turns,<br />
And awaits a-lay;<br />
<br />
The breath in abeyance,<br />
The verse to be sung, lingers in suspense;<br />
<br />
Silence.<br />
Yours. And mine.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
As the shimmer in your eyes,<br />
In the looking-glass, as you smile.<br />
<br />
When you let the hug linger,<br />
Squeeze in closer and closer,<br />
<br />
And wish evermore,<br />
And evermore.<br />
<br />
<br />
The silences,<br />
Silences,<br />
Ours.<br />
<br />
<br /></div>
Visheshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14452040774198026145noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30038681.post-23377039264536199682016-08-01T00:13:00.002+05:302016-08-01T00:13:32.397+05:30I<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<div style="text-align: center;">
Forget me and my name,</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
And the rocks shall turn to sand;</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
Through the sands of time </div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
with a sieve you may search,</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
And in the murmur of the waves </div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
hope to find, </div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
Me, and a name, </div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
I.</div>
<br />
<br />
<br />
<div style="text-align: center;">
When all is gone, </div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
The air too,</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
The mind, </div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
forgotten,</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
The breath,</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
held,</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
Words,</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
unspoken,</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
A dream,</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
Lost, comatose, </div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
I stand, I be, </div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
I am, For that's all there is,</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
I am,</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
I am,</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
I am,</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
I.</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
Limits be no bound.</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
In an eternal time,</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
Now is now</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
As it was then,</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
And when it is now,</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
It is also then;</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
And then,</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
A timeless when,</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
Where I be,</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
For I am,</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
I am,</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
I am,</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
I am,</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
I.</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
Forget me and my name,</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
And the rocks shall turn to sand;</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
And sands shall burn away,</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
And the ashes too,</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
And none shall remain,</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
But I,</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
For I am,</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
I am,</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
I am,</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
I am,</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
I.</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br /></div>
Visheshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14452040774198026145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30038681.post-35966095310198490722016-06-30T20:36:00.001+05:302016-07-01T11:24:23.181+05:30Life<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<br />
I<br />
<br />
Does it matter if it s a ship or a city? <br />
<br />
From up here, they are just a clutter of light,<br />
<br />
Floating in the nothingness, of a moonless night.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
I lay back and watch the sky,<br />
<br />
A blanket of stars, giving way to morning light.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
olin vazhiyo iruvidham,<br />
<br />
Kanin alavo etinadooram.<br />
<br />
<br />
(The way of light is two<br />
<br />
Your eyes can see till their reach)<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
II<br />
<br />
Shimmering lights that fade away,<br />
<br />
Memory, a treason to the past,<br />
<br />
Carried along from afar,<br />
<br />
To further away, and away,<br />
<br />
Till we no more know,<br />
<br />
If it is what it was.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
Whence it began, we now see, there<br />
<br />
The day we were born, is still untold,<br />
<br />
And,<br />
<br />
Somewhere we are the future,<br />
<br />
Waiting to be seen alive,<br />
<br />
The crosses and 'O's<br />
<br />
A drama drawn on velveteen yore.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
III<br />
<br />
The darkest night is a gray in hiding,<br />
<br />
I search not for the white, nor the black,<br />
<br />
But them both- fair's not worth more<br />
<br />
Than the deepest unknown.<br />
<br />
<br />
And a shade of Gray, and another,<br />
<br />
We are but effervescent bubbles of life;<br />
<br />
And life, which we are, but know not-<br />
<br />
A quest far Grayer than memory, or the night.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br /></div>
Visheshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14452040774198026145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30038681.post-39058775496725314422016-04-22T13:16:00.000+05:302016-04-22T13:16:28.031+05:30Evanescence<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I<br />
<br />
Evanescence,<br />
<br />
A lifetime to forget everything you ever held close,<br />
<br />
Framed and boxed away like old photograph,<br />
<br />
To be found in a rubble, as antique inheritance,<br />
<br />
By a child still with innocence.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
II<br />
<br />
Those you held in tight embrace,<br />
<br />
With love and trust, are far gone,<br />
<br />
In miles, and in memories.<br />
<br />
<br />
And you see them light years later,<br />
<br />
Their past, your present,<br />
<br />
Your present, to them still not beckoned.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
III<br />
<br />
Would words ever heal<br />
<br />
The scars of words,<br />
<br />
As fire for fire,<br />
<br />
Stirs a rebirth-<br />
<br />
A phoenix from the end,<br />
<br />
A beginning to forget, to mend.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
Can we all forget the years 'tween,<br />
<br />
Can what's lost be found,<br />
<br />
Befuddled days buried in calendars,<br />
<br />
Magic potion to a legendary curse.<br />
<br />
<br />
IV<br />
<br />
<br />
Till then, the past I hold to cherish,<br />
<br />
You, a dream, still and perfect,<br />
<br />
As you were the day you flew away,<br />
<br />
To a land East, closer to the day.<br />
<br />
<br />
Someday,<br />
<br />
The threads undone shall be woven,<br />
<br />
Cloistered years, forgotten,<br />
<br />
The blood we share, bespoken,<br />
<br />
The love, of the closest kin.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br /></div>
Visheshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14452040774198026145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30038681.post-59400697189103955932016-03-12T14:01:00.000+05:302016-03-12T14:08:00.001+05:30 But, it could be ours<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<br />
A scrawl in the margin of a tattered book-<br />
<br />
<br />
And memories tinted in yellow antique lights,<br />
<br />
Play deep in your irises;<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
And in mine,<br />
<br />
our love.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
In abeyance, we could live,<br />
<br />
And in that moment,<br />
<br />
we love;<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
The world would cease to be,<br />
<br />
Slowly, like a half-remembered dream;<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<b>If. </b><br />
<b><br /></b>
<b><br /></b>
<b><br /></b>
<br />
All there is,<br />
<br />
Is a book with someone's name on it.<br />
<br />
Not yours, not mine.<br />
<br />
<br />
And that scrawl on the margin,<br />
<br />
Not yours, not mine;<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
But,<br />
<br />
It could be ours.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br /></div>
Visheshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14452040774198026145noreply@blogger.com0