A whiff of You

Ever so often, when the skies
Get deeper, darker than blue
I stare out of the window,
Up, at the moon, thinking about you


I lose myself in flashes, of the many moments
Each hold a place in my heart
The times you chuckled, the times you smiled...
Those times...cupid hit me with a dart


When olfaction interrupts this virtual movie
I close my eyes and surrender to your fragrance
The only bit of you that stays with me
The bit that covers up for the painful distance...

The Soirée

Sparkling lights, glimmering skies
A wave of chitter-chatter fills the air
The finest of men, the drop dead gorgeous women
Fill this space, but it feels empty without you there


Brief exchanges with bodies around
No acquaintance with the soul
Revelling in this spirit, only because I'm here 
But feeling the surface is not feeling the whole


I fake a smile and with forced gleam in my eyes,
Put my mask on and revel too
While I seem to be content in their company
My heart, desperately, looks for you


Enter you, dripping in charm
Wooing beauties with your little quips
And then some more...it doesn't take long
For you to leave the crowd spellbound


Not a word of exchange between us
Oblivious to my presence, you're in your own zone
While you sip on some Baileys, looking into her eyes
I'm the one who cannot hold her own


I fall again, into a space of bliss
Everything starts to slow down
The sweet symphony, it resumes,
Causing headrush, when you're around


Writhing in joy, pounding harder
A song, my heart begins to sing
You're the one smiling, out there
And here, sparks a fountain of joy within

Chapter Three

The world spins, it keeps spinning
It reaches my head, when I think of you
And time ticks, it keeps ticking
But it comes to a halt, when I'm with you


A fountain of joy, I revel in
When I am around you
But why do I sink into an ocean of pain
When unfolds, the thought of wanting you


I've entered a new phase, discovering revelations
Acquaintances with thoughts that aren't new
But each time they came afloat
They were always hushed, subdued


Why now, do they float about
Teasing me, hauntingly, following me around
Raising another army of storms
Provoking me to make a sound


And I hush again, but often in vain
For ever so often, it spills out
The more I try to hide, the more it shows
It must strut and shine, within and without


And now I risk looking silly
Never did I think I would
Make small talk to grab attention
Even subconsciously, I thought not, I could


The exchange of bundles of words
To me was worthless chitter chatter
But with you, I dig into every little exchange
Even if it's merely banter


You say I'm wound too tight, perhaps, I am
And it appals me just as much
For what never held as much weight
Is being powdered to study, such

Hate kills. Kill hate!

It's disheartening how we fail to learn
These are mere expressions on a slate
That push us to take offense
They wilt emotions, they make you hate

Why do you, tainted soul, talk of God
As one who calls for annihilation of His own creation?
Why would He intend ruination of His own fruition?
No, this could not be His proposition!

It's astounding to learn that brothers
Who are, in work, in play, in joys and more
In prayer, will willingly turn foes
And will detest one another to the core

No, I know not of religion
But I know of love and hate
All come to this world, filled with innocent love
Most, leave because of hate 

Now tell me, my friend, what did you win?
Does your hatred, too, rest in peace?
Did you find love? Did you get rewarded?
Did you? Are you at ease? 

The Girl in the Mirror

A battle in itself, it is
When you're born this way
A fight with a girl I see
In the mirror everyday


You can't tame what's savage
From the core, she says
She fails to see, a girl like that
Has no place here, no reason to stay


To please someone I call my own
Each day, I kill a little bit of my own
They taught me to be a fighter
Only to learn to fight myself




Hush now, don't speak this way
Don't wrap yourself in that
Stay this way, conduct yourself so
Wait, don't breathe. Suffocate!




Wrap yourself in cling film
Look perfect, be perfect
It's only this path
That will lure your Mr. Perfect




May I? She barges in
You're getting conditioned into believing crap
Don't learn from them
Perfection itself is a trap




I want to follow, learn from this beauty,
Be true to my true lover
And someday, I shall be more like her,
Like that girl in the mirror

You

Times, when you raise your brow, indulge in thought
When you part your lips to speak
That little rogue festers another arrow
Pulsations grow stronger, one turns meek


When your lips curve into a smile
Do you see? It's infectious
Those moments of genuine, oozing joy
The beauty in such times, it's precious

Do you learn? You have a way to keep a person
Wrapped around your finger
Perhaps, it's not purposeful
Perhaps, it's just a force within you


It leaves one helpless, floating about
In an ocean of joy and pain
Causing a million storms within
Some, enthralling...some, to make one insane...