Tuesday, May 04, 2010
Heart of Gold
Thursday, March 11, 2010
Graying Clouds
Saw you standing apart
In the clichéd crowd,
Marveled at the panache
With which you solved common problems.
Yet, now your energy reserve
Seems to deplete day by day.
Your style, your swagger,
Dampen as the clock ticks away.
Tall and bright that you were,
Now, you just remain morbid and silent:
Lost in a world
You want to call your own,
Refusing to realize
That it is not there where your heart lies.
Detaching yourself
From the promise of a great future,
Entering an unknown abyss.
Come back!
For your talent is too precious
To be drowned in wine.
Watch out!
For the road you are on
Only ends in a deadly cliff.
There is more to life
Than carving a path
That seems original only to you.
There is more to living
Than forming your own herd.
Don't give away
Innocence
At the cost of unwanted experience.
There is more to life,
There is more to you.
You are the promise
Made by the Heavens above
To the growth of mankind.
Don't sell away your genius
For a few pathetic moments
Of dazed bliss.
Apply your lessons, child!
Getting swept away
By the tide of wants
Is what everyone does.
Carve your original path, thus, kid,
Wade through the turbulence
Greed so infamously creates.
Here is where you prove your mettle,
Here is how you display your true potential.
Don't give up, yet,
There is more to life…
There is more to you.
-Me
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To,
Pinnacles of originality,
You are a one of the very few people I look up to and am proud to know. Please don't change who you are for temporary happiness.
Cheers :)
From,
A caring martian.
Sunday, January 24, 2010
My Kin
You brought me
Into this world.
You taught me
The ways of life.
You gave me
A reason to live.
Then why
Did you turn against me,
My kin?
You were the omniscient
To my innocent mind,
My eternal guide.
Then why
Did you stray from me,
O creator?
Naïve I was
To have relied on you.
Clueless I was
To base my life
To live up
To your expectations.
Innocent I was
To let you
Convince me of having
Only the talents
You wanted me to develop.
Silly I was
To allow you
To guide me
Into complete misery.
Helpless I was
To stop you
From taking
The very life you gave me.
Help me understand...
Why strengthen pillars
Of emotions
When you intended
To break them anyway?
Show me the logic
Of giving life
Just to take it away.
Was it mere whim
Or was the purpose definite
When you chose
To misunderstand
And misinterpret
The words spoken
Or actions committed?
What am I supposed to do now?
Where am I to go
When I am in need of help?
Whom do I look to
When I need to show love
Or be loved?
Who will guide me
Or help me learn
When I make mistakes?
Who will appreciate
The hardwork I put
Into strengthening my emotions?
Who will praise
The struggle with which
I live through each moment of the day?
The empty void you created
Cannot easily be filled.
Do not teach me
The value of a promise
If you cannot respect it yourself.
Do not make me
Self reliant
If you don't want to give me freedom.
Do not teach me
The difference between right and wrong
And then pass off
Your wrong-doings as righteous.
Do not show me
How to be kind and considerate
When you yourself know no compassion.
Do not teach me loyalty
If you yourself cannot practice what you preach.
With this
My soul breaks free
From the shackles
You tied around it
Under the guise of responsibility.
Now,
My problems are mine.
My loyalty is
Towards my well-being.
You cannot cheat me
Any more into believing
That there exists
An emotional connection
Between us.
My freedom is all that matters.
The shattered shards
Of my faith in humanity
I now collect…
They need you to be fixed.
They will remain broken.
-Me
Monday, December 21, 2009
Deafening Silence
Have you ever had a day that did not start very well, a day that you hoped would soon end, a day that was completely hopeless? I am sure you must have had one such day, so have I! Here is my account of such a hopeless day that I would prefer not having again.
The summer holidays were going on. My aunt and uncle were visiting us with their three small children.
I was sleeping, having a very nice dream. Suddenly I felt as if a baby elephant was sitting on me. When I opened my eyes, I saw that my two cousin brothers were sitting on me. They were pretending to be horse riders and had made me their horse. They kept on shouting at the top of their voices:
“Idée up horsee, idée up!”
My brother, Samyak entered the room and started playing drums on the metallic cupboard. They were starting to get on my nerves. I told my self to remain calm.
I got up, making my cousins fall and went for brushing my teeth. When I turned on the knob of the tap, it started whistling in a very shrill manner. “Pssseeee…” it went. I quickly turned it off and decided to use a tumbler instead.
I had just come out of my bathroom when I heard a big Bang. I quickly ran out of the room and crashed with my three-year old cousin sister. She fell down and started crying.
“Ahh! Ah Ahh…!” she sounded like an ambulance.
At the very same moment, the pressure cooker whistle went off.
“Pssseeee…”
I could hear it clearly since I was near the kitchen.
A baby crying and a pressure cooker going off. Oh my God! It was so annoying and there was no sign of any adult. Just then the bell rang. “Tring, tring”. It sounded so shrill that it almost burst my delicate eardrums. I went and opened the door and…
CREAK! The door was creaking badly.
Somehow, I managed to tolerate the creaking of the door and opened it. Our maid had come. I allowed her in and closed the door with a big BANG.
My cousin was still crying and the pressure cooker still whistling. My brothers, including Samyak, entered the room. They were playing G.I.Joe. So, obviously they were making sounds of firing of guns and canons.
“BANG BANG! DHUSH! PSHEWW… BOOM!”
“Ahh! Ting ting ting ting!” went my cousins after Samyak’s round of firing.
My sister realised no one was paying attention to her crying so she got up and went to her mother, crying.
My bothers started sort of a rain dance to bring the rain. All they did was stamp on the ground.
THUD! THUD! THUD! They started shouting, “hoogla-boogla! Warara!”
I went to my room, not being able to stand the noise they were making. They followed me to my room and started their ‘rain-dance’ there.
THUMP! THUMP! THUMP!
Finally the morning turned into afternoon. My relatives were leaving that evening so the commotion increased. My mother had forgotten to lay the table as she was busy preparing their
The children sat on their respective chairs and started clattering for food. This metallic noise was getting on my nerves. My mother quickly laid the food. As I sat down I noticed that the sky was growing grey.
“Your rain-dance has worked,” I said to my bothers, “I predict it will rain today.”
“HURRAY!” shouted my brothers.
The storm started blowing very fiercely. It was making the eaves rustle and the window panes rattle.
CRASH! Someone’s windowpane broke, outside, due to the strong gust of wind. My cousin sister broke glassware inside, which led to another round of chaos and excitement; for me: noise.
The afternoon passed just as the whole of morning had – noisy, full of commotion and chaos. Finally the big moment arrived: the moment of departure. Everyone left the house, except me. My mother brother had gone to drop my relatives to the station. With a last Bang of the door, they left.
It felt so quiet in the house, so abandoned, so empty, so nice. I felt so relaxed that I decided to finish the book I had been trying to read for the two long months.
I started playing the cassette of ‘Main Hoon Na’. I simply love all the songs of that film. It had started raining heavily by then. I switched on the lights of the living room, sat on the divan, took my book and started reading it.
No car honking loudly on the empty, wet streets, no ringing of the telephone or the doorbell, no glass breaking, no drumming on the metallic cupboard, no noisy cousins spoiling your holidays, just you and your book and your favourite song playing, that is what is paradise for me.
I was so overwhelmed by the peace and quite in the house that I could not concentrate on reading my book. So instead, I imagined a waterfall and greenery all around, with me swinging from tree to tree, singing sweet songs.
I imagined a nice shady tree, below which I lay on a hammock, sipping a glass of cool, refreshing lemonade and reading that never-ending book. I imagined myself as a bird, flying high, trying to touch the sky.
I imagined myself cycling through a forest, alone on a deserted road, with the cool wind blowing through my hair, not knowing where the road will end or if it even has an end. I imagined myself as a mermaid – the princess of the clear blue oceans. All waters were mine; the waves were my transport; the fishes— my servants— were at my disposal. I could swim here, and I could swim there, and I could swim wherever I wished.
I was in my huge castle playing with my friend fishes, singing lovely songs, when all of a sudden—
‘TRING! TRING! BANG! BANG! BANG!’ I woke up with a start making my book fall on the floor. The banging and ringing continued as I ran quickly to the door. This could only mean one thing: my mother had returned.
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To all,
Here is something I wrote in ninth, but still am proud of. Enjoy.
- A nostalgic martian
Tuesday, December 01, 2009
A Happy Soul
Thursday, October 22, 2009
Shadows of the Past
To the years of pain,
Goodbye...
To memories insane-
Goodbye…
I was immature
And naïve,
Thus the mistakes I made.
I was lonely,
Lost and forgotten,
Thus the company I gained.
In the mist of the misunderstanding
That you created
I fought,
And I fought hard with myself
Not only to regain
My lost faith
But also to regain
My life.
Abandoned and uncared for
I move on now.
Alive with renewed vigour
I move on now
From the dirty talks,
From the insane fights,
From unachievable dreams
And unimaginable goals.
The unworthy sights
Of a brighter future
I shall never dream of again;
The nightmares
Of loneliness and sorrow
Will never bother me
Anymore.
For the love
You made me lose
Could never exist
With only one support
To lean on.
So farewell,
Old times;
Farewell! For
You could never,
Never be mine.