Showing posts with label poetry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label poetry. Show all posts

More of What?

18 hours a day are no more enough

You wish you had twenty eight.

Two hands seem like a limitation.

 

For consecutive years of growth

And comfort beyond your 22 year old dreams

At 40 is a mere stepping stone 

To bigger things

 

More?

Of the same?

That could take care of 15 of you and never needs to?

 

Or of time?

And of sane lives and happy faces around you.

That you might have not caused, but did not disrupt either?

 

Of little important things

That make your live your debt to the future a little

Not just in preparation of securing it against unknown yet terrible fears?

 

Of unimportant meetings

Of unproductive investments into unfocused relationships with random people

That in the end count not because they work out for you

But because they happened.

 

Maybe you have a meaning, or a purpose

Maybe you don't

 

But just the chasing of 

The next adjective, noun that starts to own you and the meaning

Because it appreared on the horizon

And took complete control of you

 

Is that it?

How To Look At Travel

a step from you
a step from me
and we'll make it a dance.

a smile cherished
some notes exchanged
friendships forged in a glance.

the new explored
the old adored

time brings with it that chance

a question answered
answers questioned
as you slip into a trance

Wrote this for Linger - thats what we hope people do when they come over.

I Exist

I exist - for me ?

for the next breath ?

(or just because of it)

for dreams ?

so i can be more

than mere existence ?

what is cause

what effect

is not for me to say

but since i exist

might as well

smell the roses on the way

Happiness

What is Happiness ?

That you're loved and treasured ?
Superiority ? Status, as measured ?
Security, comfort ? Riches, glory, or fame ?
A respected, recognizable name ?
The joy of giving something your all ?
Being able to get up after you fall ?
Freedom, or even an irresponsible path !?
The courage, means and will to follow your heart ?
That you're as curious as you ever were ?
Contentment ? Or a forever hunger ?
Is it in you, or around ?
Is it lost, or is it found ?

Is it merely a lack of reasons to be not ?
Only in its absence sought ?
Is it a state ? Or in one, a pause ?
Just an effect, or as much a cause ?
Does it makes all these feel true -
The things that add up to ?

Encounters

The few times I've come across death.
Or the idea of it.

Its been about numbness.
Futility.
Randomness.
And sometimes a feeling of being totally helpless.
All the control, cause and effect, effort-reward,
Seems fake. False.
Everything is not as it seems.
Priorities get seriously relooked at.
The celebrated seems puerile.
Goals, dreams, fears all in the realm of the inane.
Unreasonable.
Life becomes about moments.
Lived, loved, smiled.
Lost, fought, regretted.
But each important.

What am I chasing ? And why ?
The journey is not important. It is all.
For it can end. Cruelly. Randomly.

Fears

They play on our fears
Only because we have them
And choose let them rule us

We pray, pay and prepare
We cross the line, oftentimes
The "truths" continue to fool us

The spirit dies
Our existence is just that
Freedom is when fear's no more

The lips move, conforming
Speak of goodness and shoulds
What cost, to make us so secure ?

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Crossroads

Whither ?
So many pointers...
Lucre.
Freedom.
Regular Content Joe ?
Exploration.
Fame.
Which way does it go ?
Is safe safe ?
Risk risky ?
Is choice a "yes", or "no" ?
Reason.
Dare.
All kinds of swings - to, fro.
Avoidance.
Discovery.
Or just let moments flow ?
Which
The truth ?
Which the show ?

The Ride Song

Was having a chat with Vasu of the Bangalore Bikers Club, and something he said triggered this :

Furrows on your forehead
And a sigh in your breath
Think you need a little inspiration

A dull ache in your muscles
Sick building syndrome ?
Get out - get some invigoration

A little bit of sunshine
You'll be just fine
Hit the pedals and feel alive
A gentle rush - hey
It's made your day
Go the distance,
C'mon, do the ride

Push, ache
Give, take
Feel the things
That are never fake
Everything is the way that it should be
Thrill, tears,
Unconquered fears,
Demons shout
But no one hears,
You slowly get over the hill, and see

The little bit of sunshine
Its filled your mind
You plunged and you are now a-live
The gentle rush - hey
You've found your way
Did the distance,
And you spread the light.

Of a wonderful life.

The TFN site has it too