Nature

The perky night of December,
Drank the wine of golden youth.
The stars that shone behind her,
Silhouetted her in my sight smooth.

The winds that shrieked the agony of the year,
But murmured her name in my ear.
For the wind saw the breeze so clear,
That blew about in my sphere.

Beneath the moonlit sky I stand,
When Nature beckons to take her hand,
Hearing  her enigmatic song profuse,
How can I be a recluse?

I am in love with you – Nature,
For the values you nurture.
As in you I see my life clearer,
Reflected on your veiled mirror !

~Trilok~

Mortality is a Bliss !

Immortality is a curse. Imagine, a man praying to God the boon never to die in a hundred thousand years. God grants him his wish. He ages only with the Sun. A hundred thousand sunshine in his life. A hundred thousand lives of happiness in a lifetime. Time is all that he has – to think, to try, to become the greatest man in this world. Yet, Come to think of it he must be a lonely man. For what reason does he live for. He walks his life on the seashore with the cycle of life lapping like the very cold waves on his feet. With every receding wave his feet sinks. He feels the sand eroding right from beneath his feet and he can’t do anything about it. It takes everything from him and then asks him to build it again. None of his relationships ever last. Time moves ahead. Time is like a black hole. It sucks everything into it and opens a wormhole in another parallel universe perhaps to eject the souls back to live another cycle. This eonian man lives to see the loved ones one by one merging with the eventual reality of death. Then he realizes – Mortality is a bliss. Think ? May be everyone to a smaller degree has the craving to live like that in his/her lifetime. Before you realize one by one your cherished ones move away from you. Then, does the biggest success really matter ? If there is no one to see you succeed, if memories were short as a lifetime and not taken forward to another lifetime what is the point ? Isn’t the smaller beautiful moments with everyone you love the biggest success in reality ? Mortality is a bliss. It makes you realize that there is only a lifetime to live and be what you are. It gives you a sense of purpose. But mostly it gives you the real joy of life !

Pirates of the Night

Night pauses before it wakes,
Winds wait timid to shake,
Stars hide the portrait it makes,
When Pirates of the Night knock at my door by mistake.

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Mermaids recede in the darkness unseen,
Sirens seduce the mind unclean,
Howling dogs echo the chorus keen,
When Pirates of the Night steals my soul from the scene.

Winds whistle the clouds away,
As the black flags obey,
Trapped in a chest my clasped hands pray,
When the Pirates of the Night set the sail away.

Dawn I shall see of never,
As they sail by the nights’ hour,
Fortunate, if I am to return ever,
For light  – I may fear forever.

~Trilok~

Getting started

Life is not made out of memories of good. It is rather an ugly and unpleasant truth that you try to forget or run away from.  It is not about the spring and melting of snow. It is about the frozen ice and unforgiving chilly winds that blow on your face. In between these moments is that you try to seek the reality and seek a new future. A bright day, a shining horizon and  a glimmer of hope is all that you yearn for. And you wait for the signs.

Getting started is not about beginning to write. It is about starting to overcome the writer’s block in everyone’s life and here my life. This is not about literally sitting and writing one’s way out of a dreadful story of the past. It is about realising that existence itself is notional. There is more to life that just living. Making history and perhaps dreaming your own future is what makes a human. Imagine a bird getting Acrophobia, a fish fearing the waters, that’s what happens when a man starts  fearing his own dreams.

Everyone of us has incidents about the experiences and events that made us what we are today. Some are happy about it and some are rather not, which I think follows the very nature’s laws. One has to be happy and another has to be unhappy. Have you realised what makes you happy ? But the most important question here is not what makes you happy but what makes you unhappy. I believe that is what defines the success that one tries to seek. Realising that you have to run away from something and embrace another thing is what gives you direction. Defining success has been the single most important task for me all throughout my life. As I noted down in the About Me link, I am trying to recover  the lost script of my life. I am not going to rewrite my past. Well, no one can I guess. To imagine you can do it, is just giving a false belief to your soul. Finding the script is synonymous with Understanding my existence. Till then, to me, existence will remain purely notional and imaginary.

Fruitful actions never gave me the courage to overcome my writer’s block. I wrote to satisfy others. Now I write to satisfy myself. May be I will end up satisfying others too. Does that really matter ? What matters is that to confess and to start all over again needs courage. To build a life from zero is fearlessness. To fall down and to rise is bravery. Creating legend from a forgetful past lies the fight. Mere survival isn’t enough. When odds are against, you swim against the current. That takes the wind out of your lungs and makes you gasp. Swimming with the current like a dead fish is not the game that winner’s play.

Life often is like the cursor on the next paragraph wanting you to write more and continue or complete the meaning of what you have already said. But, it will leave you with times when you read from the top and realise that may be that’s it. I have so many things to say but where are the words that make those meaningful sentences. Where is the epic that I dreamt to reveal today ? Is the cheese for real that I talked grabbing about? May be grapes are sour after all. But would you stop typing ? Wouldn’t you want to explore the unexplored? Wouldn’t you want to see what your mind could make you see when your eyes are covered, hear when you are deaf, travel when your limbs are dead, interpret when you are insane, sense when you are senseless. What is the higher purpose ? May be there isn’t anything ! But what if you had something. Wouldn’t you want to know that ? There are questions and perhaps no answers or more than one. Perhaps what ties past, present, future, existence and everything else into a bundle called life are the right questions and not the answers !

Of Unpleasant Past and Uncertain Future

Tonight, I bury myself in the ashes of my past,
As I fear the spells (on my dreams) they cast,
Of agony and misery they speak vast,
And I hate to wake up as an outcast.

My Old self is dead and gone,
As I seek a new world yet meek to be born,
The Pheonix waits to rise from the ashes at dawn,
When my life moves at the pace of a pawn.

What’s life when my dreams have drained,
When burning drops it rained,
Chains bound on my legs remained,
And what I yearned never I gained.

If tomorrow comes dark and dusty,
And the paths remain twisty,
Will my eyes wake up misty ?
Will my soul embrace the future so gusty ?
And will my vile heart beat anymore, rusty ?

~Trilok~

My Dazzling Maiden

The arrows of love rain down my heart,
When before my eyes you stand,
Mesmerizing me with your (eyes) look,
O! My love! My sweetheart!
What wonder you are!
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Like the dawn is your face, sweet and pleasant,
Like the night is your hair, black and beautiful,
Like the placid moon are your eyes, calm and cool,
Like the first rays of spring is your smile, relieving and reviving,
Like a fairy you are, showering me love’s blossoms.
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Your glance thrills me so clear,
Your smile makes me so near,
Your words so nice, I crave to hear,
For once, you say, what I want to hear,
O! My love, you are my dear.
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Your smile never fades from my heart,
Your words never die from my ears,
Your sight never leaves my eyes,
And your feeling,
Gives me a new life.
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Like the night in her high,
Like the birds in their songs,
Like the murmuring streams,
Like the blossoms in spring-time,
You beckon me closer.
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Birds are beautiful,
Flowers are wonderful,
But you are an ecstasy,
That puts me in fantasy,
And drives me crazy.
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The moments I spent waiting for you,
Seems hours and hours to me,
And without you,
I feel hell here, so hard to bear,
Come fill me with heaven.
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O! My soul mate, where are you ?
Don’t break my heart,
Parting you i can think of never,
Come fill my life with love,
And be mine forever and ever.
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~Trilok~

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Since Valentine’s day is close I thought of posting an old one of mine. This one in particular was written for Poetry Club in B.I.T.S. for the V-Day wall poster. Ultimately, it got rejected with zero admirers and managed to find the last possible page on the annual magazine published later in the year obviously because there were far better ones !

To clear the air this poem is not about a real person. I was thinking about the perfect someone made just for me. Though kiddish and immature, I still hold this one pretty close to my heart !!!

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