Beyond War

It's a lovely sunny day
Birds touch the blue
Smile beams the face
No time for sadness.
Don't dig out from heart's depth
Dashed hopes and fallen glories
It looks so fine out here
Don't spoil it with dark stories.
Let me live in this moment
For it I have come far
The past is now spent
The days of blood and war!
The moment is so grand
Guns boomed for this one chance
Ah, peace is here in this land
Let me bask in it for just once.
The day is so real and bright
My dreams are set free
Don't remind me of the night
And the faces no more with me!

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Before the Bard dies

It’s time you turn the machine off, it’s time
Before the bard in you flies away
With the last melodious rhyme
For too long your eyes are fixed on the screen
Living in a virtual world forgetting your kin
While you looked away, the rainbow came and went
The flower bloomed and withered
You never got her scent
The clouds gathered on you for your glance
Then wilted, you frittered away the chance
Every bit of nature on your door knocks
To find you lost in the rectangular box
Switch it off, turn your eyes
Before the bard in you forever dies!

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Good Times Will Be Back

We are in the dark but have time for a song
Bad times will go, they won't stay for long
Clouds will disperse, revealing blue again
Soothing gust of wind will heal all our pain.
Know the night of sorrow will surely bow out
A blazing day it will be to blow away all doubt
Birds will be back, will come back sunshine
Happiness will be back, we will again be fine.
Know the gale of misery will not last for long
Bad times will go, will revert to joyful song
The dust will settle, cooler will be the clime
We shall be there to welcome the good time.

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Leftover

In the silence of the night
My ears buzz, my heart throbs
A billion bulbs blaze my head
The day comes rushing back.
My thoughts, they madly hound
The waves crash with thunderous sound
I am chased, tormented, hammered
It's hell of a deafening silence.
My bed swings in a traumatic toss
The fallen hopes, the shattering loss
My pillow gnashes me with a thousand thorns
The darkness fangs open my soul.
While the world sleeps oblivious
My fragments are carried into a new day
Stitched together for another fight…
Till the next silence of the night!

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Another Yearning Heart

Never mind if you feel unloved
Never mind
God meant you to be loved
You love will find.
There's a wind that whispers
A mountain that kisses the stars
They know your yearning heart
Is just waiting for love to start!
Surely you are seen, you are heard
You touch minds, you lovebird
There's a misty dawn, a pearly night
They will find you out, love glows bright.
You are never unloved, love finds you out
Crossing all barriers, reaching beyond doubt
God meant you to be loved, it's waiting to start
Pouring out in streams from another yearning heart!

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Arrival of the Newborn

Every birthday
I turn a year older
But when you wish
“Happy birthday,
Many happy returns of the day”
I feel younger than my age
And long to be here for
Eternity!
Inside me is a world
Unaffected by time
Outside the world changes
Faces grow old
Beautiful people become wizened
Every beauty comes to end of term
My eyes mirror all these.
I look for no shore
I don’t stand before the mirror
The transforming reflections
I abhor!
I love to live on

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Phantom Of Youth

You are sixteen and sweet
Though too young for me
I really can't help it
My heart itches for your company.
You may find me a little uncouth
A little too old for you
But it's the phantom of my youth
That keeps getting haunted by you.
My life is now a yellow page
An end in sight situation
Yet I fail to live my age
You give me infatuation.
I keep dreaming of sunrise
Engage with you in flirt
My imaginations fantasize
Desire is too stubborn to depart.
Don't blame it all on me
It's my misplaced ecstasy
I crave for your company
And survive by fantasy!

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The Spell

A low monotone ‘snip snip snip'
Drooping heads as in slumber deep
The mirrors reflect telling it all
The shed strands quietly fall.
Goes on the buzz ‘snip snip snip'
Are they awake or in deep sleep?
Getting off-loaded here's no hike
Lines of souls sit vampire-like.
No one speaks it's nobody's call
Heads mildly roll, tissues fall
Shrouded white from world disguised
The snipper's spells have them hypnotized.
The stupor breaks once ends the ride
A cruel world is waiting outside
The spell was so short, it's a pity
Time again for back to reality!

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A Whiff of Love

The dimming eyes turn a muddy gray
They can't hold the blue of the sky
Though I know nothing is forever to stay
I am agonized it's going to die!
Death's face is cruel and bare
It doesn't spare even the innocent
Just a month or so it was there
The devout say its time is spent!
I can't accept a tenure so brief
Though they say god wanted so
I feel enraged blinded with grief
A fleeting while and it has to go!
Why at all did god send it then?
If it came and soon started to pack,
Leaving in me the bitterest pain
That my love couldn't hold it back!

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The Silent Zone

Past the firework
Is reached the silent zone,
Deadly barren and dark
There you are all alone.
It's the land of winter night
Where lies the grave of summer tale,
You cry over them in the fading light,
Dusting memories that stubbornly pale!
The frame you carried with such pride
Is soon turned to a wrinkled heap,
Leaving for you no nook to hide
Except your cold heart to silently weep!
A fearful calm stalks you like your shadow,
Leads you into the abyss of silent zone,
Despairs inside you mercilessly burrow,
You know you were all along alone!

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