Against the bitterness

 As you grow

You hurt people 

And you are hurt by them

They don’t intend 

To hurt

Neither do you

It’s just about

Self protection 

Which I don’t forgive

Neither to myself

Obviously, nor to others

And the 

Dragons of life

Are sniffing behind my back

Close the doors

Make the walls 

Isolate 

Annihilate 

Yet,

In my solitude

I see the innocent being 

The child who wants to play and dance 

And I see the same in others too

I stand up

Look deep in the eyes

Bone deep 

And say hi to the child

In you 

From the child

In me 

Dragons are here

 I slept tonight

Ages have gone by

But I tell you 

I have only slept tonight

I danced tonight

But I tell you 

The universe danced as well

I have heard stories 

Of kings and Queens

And I tell you

I was the king

Tonight 

Let’s talk about the weather today

 I am 100 years old

And I bask in the sunlight 

Spread my arms

And dance with the ether 

Mischievously blow in the hearts

And whisper in the ears

 Abandon Abandon Abandon

The fight 

To love and dance 

Is your legitimate right

Way of love

There is only one

 truth of life

To love

Anything else

Is an illusion 

All my true relationships

Was of love

All my true work

Was of love

Even my true tears

Was of love

Love is the magic

In this existential maze of life

Love is the one

Consciousness 

To live is to love 

To love is to live 

Eternity and beyond

 Love can only quench the thirst

Called life

And I wonder

The origin of consciousness 

May be

It was an explosion of the insatiable need 

To explore love

Love pulls

And pushes 

All the stories 

We remember

Are manifestations  of love

As if love is the ink 

With which life is written

It is also the story

And the writer

Love is the music

And we are the flute

And I wish

That love finds you

The green and the ocean blue

 Along the shore

I glanced over the sea

And the colours 

Blue 

Entered deep in my heart 

As if my heart was deep enough 

To contain the ocean 

And I looked at the sky

Blue, white clouds and the orange sun about to set

As I looked around the sands, the trees

There was this presence

The colours of everything signified

It’s unique presence in our lives

I was sitting on the beach 

And the colours darkened gradually

As if time 

Is nothing but change of colours 

And every moment 

Simply a unique canvas

And I saw the wick of a candle

Burning 

And inspiring poets for generations

As if the colours get tied so deeply

With the act of burning

The hairs that became grey as one aged

And the radiance of the youth

Every natural colour was alive 

Can’t help but notice human’s desire to paint

The tables 

And the pixels in the phone

Somehow human’s effort despite all it’s brilliance

Fell flat 

Like a musician who had a bad day 

I guess it needed the soul of an artist 

To give some life 

To colours humans paint