abysm....

See
the brightness of life in me
not my darkness

after all
the experience of seeing is yours

says the moon
to its gazers.
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A rainbow is an ad
by rain and the sun

to compete
with the spring
in marketing colors.
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When doctors failed
you consulted God

When God did not respond
you said

Do not weep
that was all
the length of his stay here.
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Each moment
either events come alive
from the coffin of the past.

Or my heart
palpitates with anxiety
of things to happen in future

How sad
how absent I am absent in me.
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Words of fatherly wisdom were falling
on my deaf ears…
“hard work pays off big time”…

My only qualm was a laborer
getting twenty rupees after
a day's hard work.
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With each old leaf falling
the tree
gets to grow
a new leaf for the spring

Why does the world
make so much fuss
over the nature's
simple law of
flowering and withering.
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As I come out of the temple
after a spiritual break

the cry of beggars
makes me melt

thus my hand
goes on searching
for the smallest denomination
in my pocket.
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Someone in some nameless season
had tilled this sky-land
with a plough of lightening

Now at night
he sows the star-seeds
to reap in the morning
a rich harvest of light.
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