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the Journey of my mind

I cannot write poetry . However,what I write, I cannot call it prose. Whenever I've shown it to someone they said it was poetry. You read and decide then let me know



Tuesday, 15 September 2020

The last song

 Another Moment

It was the last day.

My mother refused to stay in bed

I lifted her onto my feet ,

Held her  to my body 

And walked  her  to the TV room


I sat her down,

Propped her  with pillows

Lay my head on her shoulder

 Held her close  and sang her a song

She corrected me when I went wrong .


After a while   I  said good bye.

It was Diwali.

I went for a party

I played cards the whole night


I returned  at dawn 

Got ready for bed.

 

Just then my father called-

Maa was dead.

Sunday, 19 April 2020

The mind sometimes

Nothing seems to change
Boredom sets in easily.

How easily can I say _
"Nothing is happening these days"

When everything about life is about change.

The sky is not the same everyday,
My thoughts are ever changing,
Every day I get a little older
And every step that I take
Takes me closer towards my destiny.


There is so much that we don't see
And so less that we see
That we often miss the signposts
In our hurry to be happy.

What can really make one happy?
The bird, the sky?
A new dress or
Success?

What is success?
Money?Car?
A new job?
A promotion?
Your children going abroad
Or plenty in the bank stashed away?

I have no answer to these many questions.
I myself is a seeker of happiness,
A ever wanting unsatisfied mind
Trying to reach one goal after another.
Forgetting to see the sky
and the trees .
Smell the earth,
Feel the wind,
Watch the moon and
Thank God for everyting

Trials

Hazy
Misty
Cloudy
Wintery.

Alone in this  hazy , misty, dawn.

I  wake to a cloudy, wintery morn.


Loving
Caring
Slowly
Growing.
 
Slowly growing from that detached  being
I am now a loving caring evolved self.
 
 
 
Working
Learning
Trying
Evolving
 
Working and Learning in this pandemic world
Trying , evolving to  the new conditions unfurled 
 

I see

               Running.
              Rushing.
           Struggling.
        Striving.
   Hurrying
      
For what?
       
         Money?
              Curry?
                 Study?
                    Marry?
                         Baby?

 For what ?

                         Living.
                      Dreaming.
                  Wishing.
              Fulfilling.

Then what ?

                 Loving.
                     Caring.
                           Hurting
                                  Aging.
                                        Dying.
.



                     
 
    

Wednesday, 28 August 2019

Pain


I hear of death -
Of  a sudden  loss.
A friend's brother,
A neighbor's son ,
A mother, or a grand mother ,
A friend, a sister ,
As on and on the stories go
I am filled with remorse.

I have lost so many uncles and aunts.
I have lost grand parents whom I loved.
I have lost a very dear friend whose thoughts still choke.
Above all I've lost my mother ,
Whose death I could not grieve
Because of sorrows that lie so deep.

Death.
It fills me with remorse
How do we cope.?
How do we cope?
Death .
It fills me with remorse.

The sudden loss
Comes with a disarray.
An emptiness that is spaceless
A habit that suddenly won't be there
A face , that we won't ever see
A voice, that will never be heard .
A hand, that won't ever pick up the phone to ask.
A mouth,  that will never say comforting words again.
No place to rest our heads and forget the pain.
As the years go by the numbers grow.
And with each death behind us, we grow.

As the petals fall one by one 
We remain  but pollen dusts.
Hanging on to our dear lives
Till the winds decide to blow us away. 
As someone's father, mother, or uncle, and aunt, 
Brother ,sister , grand parents and spouse ,
We scatter, and cause disarray ,
In the lives of those we leave behind.

I fear the day that I shall die
My daughter will  then feel the same as I .
 No more will she be a child again ,
A mothers loss is a terrible pain !


   

Monday, 6 March 2017

My patchwork quilt :2021



The people we meet in our lives
are like patches—
some dark, some bright.

Put together,
they form a patchwork quilt,
stories upon which our lives are built.

As we open the trunk
to air old clothes,
out comes this patchwork shroud.

So many faces from the past flit by,
forgotten moments come alive.
Each patch has a story to tell—

of sun-kissed childhood,
raunchy youth,
adventurous marriage
and soothing motherhood;

of friends, families,
and dead parents.
So much love
woven into colourful threads.

My patchwork quilt,
I will not put you away
in the tin trunk again.

You will cover me
with fond memories,
and remind me
how good my life .





Sunday, 26 February 2017

To all the missing girls.

Faceless.
Voiceless.
Heartless.
Ruthless.

Black figures of voiceless , faceless  girls.
Sucked up by the  heartless, ruthless whirl.