Pinched Back to Reality

Black clouds engulfed the clear sky,
The light of the day was about to die,
The morning dew had just vanished
Leaving the leaves, stale and dry!
Faded colour of the buildings near by
Added to the dull melancholy of the day
Moss and rust had not just appeared;
They had come here to, forever, stay.
Devil's manifestation had an upper hand
In transforming the day to a dark night,
The clutches of agony had squeezed the moment
And deprived us of our happiness, our 'light'!

Standing at the door, I looked beyond,
To find a living leaf, a blade of grass;
Barren land and naked stones welcomed my gaze,
All that was visible, was rather a farce...
Falling on my knees, I looked up and prayed,
Prayed for reality, for that 'ray' of light;
To return me my strength, my hope, my faith,
My love, my life, my happiness, my 'might'.
I needed them all to break open the doors
Which lead the way to places unknown;
I could only see a flickering flame
About to die; a stale poem, an old lonesome stone...

I DEFINED LOVE FOR MYSELF

What is Love?

I love an ‘Angel’, who brings light to my dim world,
I love an Angel, who brightens my most dull days,
I love an Angel, with whom I forget all agonies,
I love an Angel, who eases my life’s difficult ways;
I love an Angel who calms me in my most tensed hour,
I love an Angel, who glows within me the deepest of emotions,
I love an Angel, who enlightens my want to live life more,
I love an Angel, who has broken all my pre-conceived notions.
I close my eyes and see her in front, smiling my sadness away,
I hug her there and stay that way to keep all worries at bay;
I open my eyes, and look at the sky, to see a shining star,
In it I see, her sparkling eyes, staring at me from a far.
In those eyes I am lost, lost in a world unknown,
Where flowers carve the path ahead, where the ground is devoid of stones,
Where sadness is unknown to the place, where tears do not drop,
Where life is a party, a celebration, one which can never stop.
I get charmed when she is with me, I am lost in her,
I loose all desire to face reality, I only look at her.
She comes and fills my life with everything beautiful and serine,
And all my attempts to release her charisma is all but in vain.
I can only see her eyes where I have lost my heart,
I can only see her lashes which, with her eyelids, do flirt,
I can only see her brows, where frowns do never appear,
I can only see her eyes, where truth is most clear!
I know now what love is, but I differ from dictionaries,
I differ from scholars; I differ from love-stories,
I differ from the world in the way it defines love,
I differ from Almighty, in the heavens above!

Love is but her sparkling eyes; love is her flowing hair;
Love is her essence which I feel, even when she’s not there;
Love is her words which bring a new desire to live;
Love is her faith on which rests my life’s belief;
Love is the feeling which crosses me every time I hug her;
Love is the emotion within me which her presence does stir;
Love is the desire to hug her tight and tell her what she means to me;
Love is she, her complete being, what else could Love be???

DREAMER!

Love has been very kind to me, for giving love to me;
Because today she defines love for me,
And I get lost in that feeling of completeness and warmth
Which she brings with herself, every time she is with me.
Her eyes, which make me feel special in every way;
Her words, which ignite emotions unknown,
Her hugs, which create the wish to live again,
Her gestures, which can melt the strongest of stones.
That is love for me, nothing beyond her existence,
That is where I stay, in complete happiness and peace,
That is my world, where I want to live forever,
And, my heart is where she lives.

Today, suddenly, I woke up from this dream,
And saw my house being snatched away,
I only stood in amazement at what was happening,
And kept on wondering, now, where would I stay.
I saw the ground beneath my feet
Being dug down till I fall in it,
And I felt helpless about what should I be doing
To save myself from falling in it.
Suddenly the sky became grey, and cloudy,
And thunder started deafening my ears;
And I could see myself melting down
In the flow of my own tears.

Happiness is always a guest for few moments
After which it leaves us in thirst of itself.
This truth was staring at me now
And, then, I was trying to hide myself;
Hide from the truth that slapped me every time I looked at it;
The truth I would have preferred to lie hidden somewhere;
The truth of my life, and of the relation I was living on;
The truth which blinded me with its glare!
However, I had to live with it, no matter what,
As I believed that my love would look back at me again
To embrace me in her heart, and hug me;
And to drench me of all my sufferings and my pain.

With every tear rolling down my cheeks, I found myself burdened
With the task of hiding my pain with the camouflage of a smile
And I tried my best to theatre my acting skills now;
But eventually I realized that all this was in vain, all this while!
I could not hide my pain under the veil of smiles,
As my smiles spoke lies more than my eyes,
Filled with disgust I stared at that truth
Till it blinks or my world dies!
And my world came to a standstill with this truth,
And I lost my life in a stampede of pains,
I lost my heart, to devil’s hand,
And found my soul in torture’s mane!

Suddenly, a splash of water awakened me,
And I found that angel standing in front of me;
I realized that the nightmare was not true
And I still had my angel with me.
All that I had seen was just a dream,
The ground underneath my feet had not been taken away,
Love had not merely knocked my door,
She had come in my life to stay.
I pulled her close, and hugged her tight;
I held her close, to feel her presence
I again found myself in my home
Where life was paradise, and love was in abundance!