AND LOVE IS....

The question of “What is love?” has been asked through ages immemorial. I have a simple answer for it. Love is just ‘the absence of hate’. As a matter of fact, the whole universe is built on the element of love, and the presence of hate would lead to its ultimate downfall!

The Chinese philosophy states that ‘the soul’ is made up of the five basic elements: the prolific earth, the lambent breeze, the passionate flames, the roaring seas and the eternal sky. When all these elements are bound by the essence of love a ‘soul’ is created. Perhaps this is the reason when two people come together for a life time bound by the sacred ceremony of love; they are called ‘soul mates’!

Simply put, the absence of hate paves way for love. The soul manifests it as different emotions; friendship, kindness, forgiveness, humility, sacrifice, passion, joy…
Romance being the most prominent of them, is always mistaken as the ‘universal love’ where the fact is it’s a minuscule fragment of the universal element.



Many of you may argue what I would call the neutral feeling that lies between love and hate. Neutrality is for those who cannot take a stance in life, for them who cannot decide which road to take; it’s a sign of vulnerability, a state of profound confusion!
Every one of us sways on an emotional pendulum that stops at different times in different situations. A thief would rob a bank for the love of money; a cop would nab the thief for the love of position or for the love of his duty! It all depends whether you see things from a thief’s eyes or a cop’s! If the thief would have never ‘loved’ money,he wouldn’t have robbed a bank and the same with the cop too! Love has the power to make you do things, things that may seem ‘right or ‘wrong’ to the world!

For young minds today, loaded with the crap from movies and books, love has just ended at ‘romance’. Flowers, gifts, poems, have emblazoned this sacred emotion. In the name of this romance, the true essence of love from the family, from our well- wishers have taken a back seat. Today love starts with the fair skin, progresses with a kind smile and ends with tender lips! What the world needs today is a bit of realization and of course loads of LOVE!!

I WILL......

I will dare to dream and think beyond,

Think beyond, the boundaries that have been drawn.

I will aim for the stars-set my sights high,

I will tell myself that the world is mine.

I will give my best to scale, soar and fly,

And believe that I’ll someday touch the sky.

I’ll see more than what is shown,

I’ll take risks and walk the unknown;

I’ll listen, listen beyond what can be heard,

Look past what is taught-and see what can be learnt.

And a winner shall I be at every given chance

All in the spirit of a new renaissance!

I’ll go where there is no path and leave a trail behind,

I’ll search for answers beyond what can I find.

I’ll stumble, I’ll fall…

I’ll get up just as quickly at the end of it all.

In the dark eons, a warrior of light shall I be,

Riding on divine horses, a knight you will see!

This is one of my favourite. Lots of memories with the movie and the book! 
One of my first works, premature and simple! :)

A WALK TO REMEMBER

Hand in hand, we walked for miles,

In those tears, we found our smiles.

Each little path welcomed our souls,

A part of "us" still rests on those roads.

I wish I could turn back the wheel of time,

Relive every moment that were yours and mine.

Say those words again, again feel the sun,

Undo every mistake that has been done.

I now walk alone without you,

I do have tears, like roses have dew.

But when night falls and the moon lights up my face,

I see you, walking with me with a heavenly grace!

BECAUSE I AM A GIRL

Is it my fault that I was born brown and dark,

Or born in this world,with a feminine mark!

To think of her face,when she held me in her arms,

A frown on her face,muttering a curse for my charms.

The face I saw years ago,fires up my rage

With him in her arms,a smile on her face..

Running her fingers through his dark,brown hair

Admiring his pink lips,skin so fair.

From then on,i am but a dead soul alive,

The last dew drop,small and dry.

I silently cry into the nights,for no fault of mine

She moves on,pretending everything to be fine.

My tears,my pain,un noticed by her,

Who am I? Just her 'unwanted' girl!

For her son-her love,her life,

And for me-tears and strife......

ONLY IF....

There was always something we did not say,

The silence of sound, the darkness of day.

The stars of heaven knew, so did the pearls of the sea,

But not us, neither you nor me.

Our hearts said it, our eyes showed it,

But words betrayed us, not giving a hint.

Neither a tear nor a smile,

Could say what the words didn’t.

Now, for the silence we both repent,

If only we had said it, life would’ve been different.

The threads of time have become so tender,

I can’t leave him now, nor can you her!