Saturday, October 2, 2010

The Midnight Hue.


The midnight hue
Stuck me like a glue,
In its forbidden-forsaken beauty
Like a smiling cutie.

And that’s when I knew,

The midnight hue
Was all

You.

Sunday, September 5, 2010

Life (When the child felt its weight on his shoulders..)



It started long long time ago, long before today, long before 9/11, long before my birth. It was before Chernobyl, before Lennon’s death, before Abbey Road, before Catcher in the Rye, before Hiroshima, before the first submarine or the airplane, before Freud, before electricity, before the last dodo, the last Mughal Emperor, before the Plague, the crusades, the Mahabharata or the Ramayana, before Rome, before Egypt, before the dawn of mankind. It was long before the Cro-Magnon, before the dinosaurs.
It was before the earth had trees and forests as we see it.

Life as we see it began a long time ago on a hallowed day in the Pre-Cambrian. A rainy day, and there life began from a single lightening spark in the open Ocean. A mere chance one can say and here we are the product of something that could easily have not happened.
No one remembers that day. No one values life anymore.
Look around you and you will see how depressing life is. Take life away mother earth, just take it away. Someday you will. The sooner the better.
It is raining today.

It began with the rain, the lightening. So why not end it here?

Thursday, August 19, 2010

When a kid wrote a poem called Palestine.


The Promised Land, where promises weren't kept;
The Promised Land, where mothers and wives wept.
And that's how it has been since the dawn of The Bible
The story of Palestine - A god-forsaken fable.
And what was The Crusades of the Mighty warriors?
That led them to break the worldly barriers.
In the name of a God they fought,
Without a second thought,
For a land that has shed more blood
Than a slaughter house in Modern Baghdad.
And do you remember Emperor Constantine?
He once ruled Palestine!
And was it a happy time?

Saturday, July 24, 2010

About Today.

There are certain days in our lives that are insignificant. Today is one such day. The lull in the weather is evident and the emotional disquiet is perpetual. Things happen on such days that are insignificant. Memories strike your brain. Bitter-sweet ones? 
Certain uncalled memories flash right in your head while the birds twitter in the lemon tree across your balcony. The memory of the girl who never loved you, the pet dog who died in a freak accident, the best friend that left the city or the brother that went abroad, all in one go. The things that could have been different. But then you think of the present- about the people who care, the best friend who is here or the people who miss you and love you, the stray dog that accompanies you from your place to the bus stop no matter what. You ignore them. You keep your cell phone off and pretend you don’t need anyone. You know you do. On such day all you care to do is nothing. Today is a day you wish to remain silent. Today is a day, you should be sad. Today is a day for the past. Today is a day for the girl who never loved you, for the pet who passed away, for the best friend who went away and for the brother in a faraway land. Today is insignificantly important. Today is one such day. 

Friday, June 25, 2010

She died in my arms. (For Brownie.)

She fell from the sky like a shooting star 
In the meadow of a concrete and neon-lit bar 
In death she gained freedom 
From being a loyal four legged. 

Yet i begged; 

I begged for her life 
But still went the knife 
Into the heart, 
Perhaps a tragic death is life's most inevitable art.

Friday, April 16, 2010

Little Amsterdam.

It’s a little world of joy. No misery but only thrill. And the End result is nil. It's death they say.

Money flows in with every breath. Drug deals. They can kill you with a bitter-sweet death trap. The little stock exchange in the little city flourished. A little world of cannabis and wannabes. Few wise artists, actors they are. Pretense is their weapon. The unmistaken red-light. The little geishas, using lust, for life. Survival. Ah, a little heaven with a huge price to pay. There is no tension as cannabis dilutes the fourth dimension. Bliss. Bliss. And only Bliss, or it seemed so. A little world for The ‘Blessed Children’. A little Amsterdam. 



Its captivating how easily humans make their own illusionary world. They build their own walls to stay away from bad influences forgetting the basic fact that the concept of the world lies in facing and fighting the ugly clichés.
They try to escape into the little Amsterdam fearing to face the truth. Just for the sake of staying ignorant and happy, they get forever locked into this vicious make belief world. They get used to it. They become sad. They don’t seek for reason. Greedy people. Stupid people. They must die. 

Emotional people. Good people. They are the vulnerable. In their little Amsterdam they are lost. They too don’t want the truth. It hurts them. They don’t fight. They submit to the Bad and The Greedy. They get their Cannabis. They are happy now. They don’t seek for reason too. They will die. 

Bad people. Shrewd people. (political people??) They are the architects of this little Amsterdam. They lure the other people into this vicious world. They control the little Amsterdam. They rule now. But someday they will fall. They will be the prisoners of their own device. Too much prisoners. Too less space. It’s a little world. Hence they have to die. 

Death is the solution. Viva la revolution. 

Practical people. They don’t live in this little world. They are boring and useless.
They are mere spectators to the little world’s misery yet envies it.

This is because that little world of big-misery will always have a story to tell.

Friday, April 2, 2010

Through the translucent glass of yore.

A Platoon of Red
Very well fed.
A battle for scope
With a little dope
And victory for Reds’
Salute Marx and other Comrades!
And there was you,
The halo of radiant hue;
Dancing for the vicious victor.