Reconstruction

I gathered the finest things for it,
Put them together, polished them neat,
I shaped it the best way I could
Wanting it to be there for good!
Just when it was in perfect form,
Winds rose, blew thunderstorm,
I clung onto it with all my heart,
It broke into pieces, lay tattered in dust.
After a while's despair, a momentary pain,
I gathered back the fragments for making it again!

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Ritual

Every morning he goes to the church
though not religious, not really much
tidily dressed, looking so neat
the routine is a way, for him a habit
he prays for nothing, nothing he wants
it's all ritual, the prayers he chants
Years roll by, he grows frail and old
till he is laid in a coffin, dark and cold
the hearse carries him to the church he went
there is no prayer, he remains silent.

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Remnant

The eyes meet and then
It rains kisses from the heaven.
I turn your soil into mine
And give you a moondropp divine.
Storms our loves weather
Tides bring our souls together
Hearts woven one, we ride into fires
Timelessness is what our bond aspires.
But youth is as ruthless as a mirror
Like a cold creeping terror,
It catches us to leave us behind.
You and I carry its embers in our mind.

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Bird's Wish

The bird asks me
What I’d do
If I am a bird.
I tell him
High and high I’d soar
So high that I’d see the earth no more
I’d be a bird on the tree
I’d be a bird that’s free!
What you’d do bird
If you’re a man?
To be fair
It’d be my only prayer to God
Don’t be so hard
Make me once again a bird!
Saying this the bird sings
And spreads its wings to a sky
I can never fly!

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Not the Same Guy

I don’t know what set the mood
Today I’m feeling good
Happiness all over me
I feel nice and free
My heart is so light
The sunshine more bright
Fairer looks my so so girl
Fuller lips eyes are pearl
Somewhere inside is a swell
That makes me wish everyone well
Clicked open a treasure trove
Pouring out floods of love
This morn I feel not the same guy,
I'm ready to fly and touch the sky!

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Oldhood

Sit a while and hear
I have so much to tell
Loneliness is hard to bear
More so when age is pale.
Lend me your ears
My solitude is morose
It's now some years
Anyone came close.
My voice cracks when I speak
But I have so much to say
See me not as sick and weak
Lend a part of your day.
I have seen life for years
Some I want you to know
Listen a while as evening nears
Before I wind up and go.

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Music

Music
In it you find
Tonic for mind
When you feel like
Having been left behind!
Music
It’s what you seek
When someone you love
Hurts
One close to your heart
Departs!
It’s what you choose
When you lose
Someone gives you a miss
In it you find peace!
Music
It’s what you look for
In her eyes
And your heart flies
You are in a trance

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Before I Go with the Night

Can you bring me a little warmth?
The night is like an unending tunnel
Ahead looms a long winter month
When I go there won't be a funeral.
Can you not hold me close?
Rub the cold off my heart?
So that when the chill goes
I can blissfully depart.
I am cold as the frosty night's bird
With the smell of warmth under my wing
The sound of my fall if it's ever heard
A dirge for me can you sing?

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In Times Good And Bad

In our dark moments
We drift to God -
The peacemaker, reconciler, pacifier,
The believer's ultimate remedy!
The belief in the shaken soul
That nothing he can miss,
He's ever there with his wand of justice.
In our luminescent moments
We thank god -
The harbinger of all that's fair,
The soul's ultimate soother!
God up there all alone
Has his reward -
He's always needed in good times and bad!

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The Dog Wonders

Kick the dog, they kick the dog
Living a life worse than a dog
Shabby smoky hopeless hogs
Used to the lives in the bogs!
The dog is innocent, it’s so good
It scours the streets for food
These guys are dingy, dark and morose
They kick the dog when it’s too close!
The dog wonders what it has done
Why the hell do they kick him?
Is it hatred or a moronic fun?
The dog is baffled by their whim!

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