A Moment with Midnight

This won’t do justice to my love for quotes I know. But it’s a start. It doesn’t exactly say how I feel, how my body cringes, heart skips and my eyes well up, for those split seconds when nothing else matters but the absolute beauty in you.

I know I probably shouldn’t say this but I’m jealous, of people who are able to write such heart wrenching quotes. If I ever were able to, I’d spend my waking moments in your tight embrace, not that I don’t do it already!

So short, sutle
You won’t even notice,
If you don’t look hard enough
Yet a world in them
Through the right looking glass
Seldom cited aloud
Yet the chill you feel
When it hits you
Wave after wave
And you wash away onto the shores
Of reality again
Intimate moments you feel touched
By the very essence of life.

Again, a piece of my mind. Why don’t I make a change by doing this routine when I actually plagiarise rather than when I’m don’t ! Honest to God and to myself!

My Human Side

This here is a little something I conjured up a few days ago. Let me go ahead here and tell you that this is not about anyone. On the contrary, it’s about a little thing deep inside that’s been nagging me for quite something now. And perhaps this thing is more alive to me that any individual. It’s this shadow that follows me around no matter where I go. It’s there behind the curtains when I’m all happy and at the cusp of living. It’s there wrapped around me when I’m down and needing. It’s something I’ve always appreciated but never quite understood just how important it is my life.

It’s about man and his love for words, beautiful, powerful words that, incredibly have the power to say exactly what I feel.

This is all about showing what you truly mean to me.

I crumble,
At the sight of you
Into a million pieces.
At a glance
My mind rages
Like a stormy night
Tossing me to the edges,
Into the eye,
And back again.
Holding on, desperate
Pushed to the lines of insanity.
It’s always a fight,
Between life and death.
When I chance upon you,
Bundled up neat
In a cosy little book
Or thrown at will,
As bulletproof thoughts
Cherished like a daydream,
Thorns ripping me apart
As I hold you close.
An addict i’m
For the beauty in you,
And the pain that follows
You are the one true comfort
In my abysmal living.

The above is an authentic piece of my mind and yeah, sure I get inspired by works but how I use it to shape my own, that’s purely me.

Heartfelt

Finally! I guess I’m back! And that too after 7 months of not writing anything that went beyond mails!

I went through a lot of emotions before coming up with this one! Happiness, sadness, questioning my self worth and reason are to name a few. I realise I’m never gonna get any answers to the questions that cloud my mind right now. But I have this! Words, poetry, sitting alone with nothing but the joy of stringing words together to make them sound exactly how I want it to! If that isn’t worthy, if that isn’t reason enough, I frankly don’t know what is!

Here’s a little something that was the outcome of the very act I was talking about only a minute ago! Now, it may sound a little jagged for I’ve been out of action for the past 7 months. But it’s a start and I’m glad I started this once again!

I sit here, day after day,
Relentless;
Blank canvas and the rainbow
To etch the sun and the stars,
And the warm November rains,
Of life and the battles won,
Of you;
And all things beautiful.
Yet, I paint it gray
With the hollow of my heart.
Of bleeding lives
And broken souls,
I guess poetry
Has as much truth
As surreal scribbles.

The above is the work of the Author and no part of it has been copied from anywhere else.

Be Brave

Remember the dialogue in the movie Shawshank Redemption when Andy Dufresne says hope is the best of things? Yes, that be the word of a man who was gonna rot in prison probably for the rest of his life. Yet he got out and made a life for himself. What changed? He hoped. He hoped for a better life. His unshaken hope got him through his sufferings. For to get the life you want, you gonna have to have the kind of belief others cant even dream of possessing. Thats how you show you deserve it more than anyone else.

Below is a little something similar to what I tell myself if I ever find myself wishing I be dead. Although I got a good foothold from a Hollywood movie for this post, I did add my bit so that it be my words that I write.

May you always find the strength to get up everytime you fall down.

Do not go quiet into the night.

I say,

Do not fall silent without a fight.

Let the night be the darkness

And the light be the blinding fear.
May your voice drown in madness

And your fights end in nothingness.
May the stabs bleed you out

And the pain beat you down.
Let your heart crumble away

And hopes sink like paper boats.
And when you are done dying

Get up and fight.
For the darkness dont scare

Nor the pain
For the bleeding dont kill

Nor the sorrow
For you, my love,

 Are all the bravery

Folktales talk of.

Have a good night people. Sleep tight for all is well when you believe it is.

A Midnight Musing

Took me damn lot of time to get back. Its not a lack of free time that was stopping me but a lack of motivation. Thinking and coming up with something worthy was frustrating. It took a toll on me and I was gonna give up on this forever.

But, somewhere down the path I realised, I never began this to gain anything. This was simply gonna be an indulgence. It doesnt have to be good or something. It just has to be ‘me’.

Cheers to all those written and unwritten words. May you always find the motivation to pick up a pen and start writing just like that, every single time.

A little something to make me realise what I was gonna give up on. 

My path be my battleground
You be my victory
I walk till my limbs numb
For ‘you’ are the eluding horizon
Tantalizingly close
Yet unreachably far
And I be that little boat
That dreamt of the seven seas
And dared to go for it
Defeated yet unfazed
Shattered yet unbroken
I be constant
Like the gleaming moon
For I love not the little puddle
But the ocean blue.

 

Proud to say those were my words, thoughts and actions.

A trickle of life within the lifeless

Memory means everything to me. 

Memory has something that I hold dear. Spending moments, hours just gazing at the emptiness, believeing that the world infact is a beautiful place and my life is exactly how I wished it would be,well that’s a feeling that surpasses every other feeling. 

It gives me peace. Misplaced I know. Then again, most things in the world are misplaced. And completing the puzzle is what makes life interesting!

The monochromatic Nokia

Shone with vestige thoughts

Words from the past

A letter that was us.
The old tattoo in my neck

Reliving the joy

In the pain.

A scar that was us.
The cafes, the lattes

That stood witness 

To the imprints we left.

A memory that was us.
The fading photo in my wallet

The smile I so miss

The times I yearn for.

A life that was us.
Now, hollow hearts that ache

And shallow lives that fake

As I sit with this poem

Of you and I.
A love that was us.
The above is a product of some empty thoughts that creeped into my mind while in idleness. 

Echos from the soul

​To some poetry is just jumbled words made to love beautiful. To some poetry is but a way to impress. And there are some to whom poetry is the very essence their everyday living hangs on.

Hats off to all those wonderful poets who have made our life colorful!

Here is a little something from your fan!
What madness is this thing,

Called poetry?

Where love becomes the sun and the moon

And the heart, the ocean blue

Where love becomes the seven seas,

The surfer quests to tame.

Spinning tales out of the crashing waves

Hoping for a footprint, in the sands of time
What absurdity is this thing,

Called poetry?

Delusional quotes carved

On the tombstone of the dead

Telling tales of lives

Of great men and of others

Of hope and hardships

Of lost lives in the struggle, called living.
What is this poetry? I asked.

The autumn leaves and its inner peace

The dancing rain and its untold joy

Take my breath away!

‘Poetry, my dear’, said the voice in my head.

‘..is all things beautiful’.

Then again, everything is beautiful.

In its own unique way.
The above is a humble tribute from a person who has spends many a happy moments in the company of poetry.

Mon Amour

You gave me the most wonderful gift I can ever ask for. You gave me the confidence, to write and to write my heart out. Hence here I’m, writing my heart out for all my heart ever has, is you.

​The writer who dies

At the mention of your name,

Crumbling, like a sand castle

Washed away, marooned forever.

The writer who lives

In the shadows of your memories,

Fondness like the fire

Burning bright, from within.

The writer who writes

With the black of the night,

Constellations of you, and me,

In my fantasy skies.

For I’m the writer who bleeds

For bleed is all I can do

When I’m in love

With you.

The above piece of work is something way too close to my heart, so close that if I ever plagiarise in this, it means I dont even have a heart!

Life in the Memories of you

​There are people like me, people who dont worry about the future or the present. People like me who’s life still revolves around a certain past. A past so magical it has convinced them that there can be no better life than the life that they were part of, and left.

Living in the past aint a sin. Then again, nothing really is a sin. It all lies in the eyes of the beholder.

My voice is but a quiver

My thoughts, a starless night

My heart, the greatest coward

Unwilling to let you go,

Hovering over your memories.
My mind still loves you.

My eyes pry like always

In the voices of chaos

And in the faces, the masquerades,

To feel the magic that is you.
I look for you in the shadows

Shadows that was once people.

In the shattered lives

That speak of beautiful pasts.

‘Coz my love I loved a rose and its thorns.
I need you

For you’re all the people I know

The one true thing in my life.

I want my soul back

As my bleeding heart needs its fix.
Come back to me

Or take me with you,

My love.

My emptiness is unbearable

And my love is unquenchable.
Lets lie on the glistering sand

And gaze upon at the starry night.

Lets fly to the moon, and make it ours.

May our love consume us

And the world.

The above are words of my heart and it is as genuine as it could be.

Unbroken-Like a Green Leaf from a Dead Twig

​The beautiful words of Morgan Freeman in the movie ‘The Shawshank Redemption’ “Every man has his breaking point’echos through my heart.

Life’s a challenge. Not your job, not your programme, not even relationships or love can match life in it. Life gives you a million reason to give up and walk away each day. But what is that one reason that drives you, that one little inspiration that forces to hold on no matter the shit you go through in life? 

Tell me, why wont you give in yet?

I have my reason, hope you have yours’.

The rosiness left her cheeks

Her eyes a looming thunderstorm

And her scarred heart bled

For her love,

The light in her skies

Dying like the crimson sunset.

‘I shall live’

Said the staunch mind.

‘I shall love’

Said the undying spirit.

And it began

Once again

The process called life.

A wounded heart

A haunted mind

And a killing pain

As she trudged on

Unfazed by the hurtin’

Unwilling to let go 

‘Life is too precious’

Said the feeble yet determined heart.
The above has not been copied from anywhere else because, quite frankly, you cant do that here!