Across the way...(haridwar)

Duty and Life

Here, Duty calls,
With arms open wide and hands desperately reaching out.
With tears, sorrow and misery in it’s cradle
And love, care and responsibility on it’s shoulders.
It holds expectations in it’s pockets
And suffering is it’s cloak.
It calls out and beckons to me, not too inviting
But behold! It warns me before hand,
That it was an inescapable web that I would enter,
One which was necessary but not beautiful.
It’s path holds thorns and a thunderous sky above,
With black rain drenching me and a windy cold night.

There, Life calls With a smile and open arms.
It says it doesn’t want me, It’s I who calls for him.
He will be here forever, but in different forms it’ll be.
It holds the joy of a lifetime with all the happiness I want.
It says you are on your own here,
You get what you take
And earn what you want.
There’s no limit here, no bond, none to stop you.
But behold! it too warns me, you come with your soul in hand.
You lose the chance, you lose the game,
You lose yourself and end the tale.
A cloak of gold and glitter it wears, risk and danger it holds,
It says you can have it all in here,
It’s you who choose what to lose.

It’s all a matter of choice now, the decision lies with me.
To find pride in duty here,
Or joy with life over there.
One hand calls out for me, with the other charging an entry fee.
It’s not others but me at stake this time, my soul and spirit in real.
It’s not a choice, a war it is,
With me the scapegoat this time

~k~

Outshining the dark

In darkness was a path
A path that came from oblivion
In darkness was a light
A light from the endless bottoms

It rose like the wind
And hit with a blast
Hail cooled the pain
And wind formed a spark

He was a godsend gift
A blessing from the stars
A pained soul
With a bleeding heart

It was his deceiving cover
Or maybe his concrete wall
His compromised life
Or his believing power

He was hell’s angel
Craving for love
He was cupid himself
Bathed in love

Eyes an abyss
Of the lost and found
Mind a maze
Of surprises and frowns

Heavenly voice
A charm so pure
His love and support
A perfect cure

He gave but never asked for it
His drunken eyes reaching out for me
A lot is unsaid yet
But I know he’ll never part from me

~k~

Another battle lost

Feel like sleeping,
Fainting again
Feel like crying,
Weeping again
Feel crazy,
Wild again
Feel contradicted,
Opposed again!
Feel hopeless,
Discouraged again!
Feel broken,
In pieces again
Feel betrayed,
Deceived again!
Feel like mourning,
Aggrieved again!
Feel like remaining in the darkness,
Lost again!
Feel like retreating,
Tired again…
Feel like dying,
The battle's lost again....!

~k~

Dying Hope

a hopeless hope...
unseeing eyes..
mute tongue
and deaf ears...
all bound by fate and time.
A hurt soul
shattered and broken,
searching for light,
shedding cobwebs of the past,
retreating to it's shell.
Tripping and slipping,
stumbling and falling,
trapped and struggling,
struggling for escape
from a dark abyss
a never ending abyss...

~k~