I read my daughter’s letter and touched her sleeping head. Amber streetlamps glowed through blowing drapes. I read my daughter’s letter softly to the empty sky where moonlit clouds divorced. Teardrops made the writing run and creases scratched the words. Longing cries that choked tried to say goodbye. I traced the written words through trembling lips. I saw her in my mind, alone gasping for her hero. “Daddy,” she said,  [ Read More ]

All this time I was riding on a dead end highway, Killing my desires, I waited for you to go away, A Long ago, even I stopped keeping the score, each time you said, you don’t love me anymore..!! I tried to hold my tears as tight as I could, But somehow I knew this wont do any good, but, if you could see my tears in the rain, You’d  [ Read More ]

It was an April morning: fresh and clear The Rivulet, delighting in its strength, Ran with a young man’s speed; and yet the voice Of waters which the winter had supplied Was softened down into a vernal tone. The spirit of enjoyment and desire, And hopes and wishes, from all living things Went circling, like a multitude of sounds. The budding groves seemed eager to urge on The steps of  [ Read More ]

Eyes of grey — a sodden quay, Driving rain and falling tears, As the steamer wears to sea In a parting storm of cheers. Sing, for Faith and Hope are high – None so true as you and I – Sing the Lovers’ Litany: “Love like ours can never die!” Eyes of black — a throbbing keel, Milky foam to left and right; Whispered converse near the wheel In the  [ Read More ]

You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies, You may trod me in the very dirt But still, like dust, I’ll rise. Does my sassiness upset you? Why are you beset with gloom? ‘Cause I walk like I’ve got oil wells Pumping in my living room. Just like moons and like suns, With the certainty of tides, Just like hopes springing high, Still I’ll rise. Did  [ Read More ]

A Rock, A River, A Tree Hosts to species long since departed, Mark the mastodon. The dinosaur, who left dry tokens Of their sojourn here On our planet floor, Any broad alarm of their of their hastening doom Is lost in the gloom of dust and ages. But today, the Rock cries out to us, clearly, forcefully, Come, you may stand upon my Back and face your distant destiny, But  [ Read More ]

I remember the time when you loved me, and our love blossomed like an eternal tree, The days have past and its been years, but, still your memories bring me tears..!! I wonder how can I forget all this, when I still have fragrance of your last kiss, when I look at moon I wave you goodbye, and I may not stop doing that until I die..!! To me its  [ Read More ]