Burn

I am going to burn this town tonight.

Before the moon is high over yonder.

In the raging flames I shall find perverse delight.

Those orange flames will show my candour.

The ‘me’ that I’d lost and the one that you broke.

Like a thousand mirrors, they reflect your sins.

A thousand eyes look on the fires I stoke.

Ashes of dreams and rage-the inseparable twins.

And I shall see how you laugh today…

The moon will be red tonight, serenely murderous.

PS: Rage is powerful but very much like a katana, cuts both ways.

Shooting for the moon

Its been a long time that I have seen stars in the sky,

This thick grey cloud clogging up the city nighttime,

Hiding so cruelly all the precious diamonds in the sky.

Or is it that the cloud is in our minds, fogging brains?

Of materialism, of egos, of cunning, of always wanting more.

A disease permeates our generation—shooting for the moon.

And shoot some people who stand in your way too.

Where friendship is obsolete, its all professional here.

Black coats, black trousers and blacker hearts.

Its been a long time since I saw the sun set over the Ganges

But I still see corpses floating down everyday.

Only this time, its not just decomposed dead bodies.

It is the stench of decaying decadent souls.

The Pink Letter

I dreamt of the letter again tonight

As the sun came in with its rays so bright 

I stretched out my arms for what is mine 

The pink letter of my countless dreams divine

I try and try to peep in inside, catch a glance

To see what you have written only for me, if I have a chance 

It’s got flowers and lovely ribbons on the outside 

It makes my eyes go a love-struck surprised wide 

And then I see it’s not a letter at all but a beautiful pink card 

With birthday wishes and the lovely handwriting of a feminine bard 

It’s not mine at all, not my name anywhere at all…

Neither in the ‘to’ nor in the ‘from’ 

But there’s the touch of a female form 

I look away in my dreams, unable to bear the pain 

I had been so presumptuous, was so vain. 

Peeping into the past or the future is not my business 

So I shut up and look at the present dizziness 

As days and nights meaninglessly whizz past us... 

I just stay numb and wish that the pink letter was mine. 

But neither have you cared enough nor have I 

It’s been a relationship of convenience from the very start 

I know you’ll say me saying this hurts. 

Good news is that I don’t dream of it anymore 

But the truth doesn’t set you free, 

It just binds you to a greater degree.

Steely Sphinx

I am free, I am bound to thee no more.
Oh, you world of selfish reasons.
So many dreams, beliefs and aspirations
Of mine have you engulfed within your molten core.
What an irony,the molten core has no heart.
Its all red lava with not an iota of emotion.
It makes men of steel and steel of men.
All your sinful piety appeals to me no more.
I've had enough of you and your self-glorious ways,
It's my time now,to move on and assert myself.
Not in this steely world as you would want.
But in my private sphere where you aren't allowed.
You might pester and plead,but oh!You foolish one,
The place you lost once cannot be blackmailed from me.
I'm over and through, I am just so bored of you.
Your tricks and your whiles don't appeal anymore.
And you ain't even a mystery worthy to be solved.
'Coz you are just a sphinx with no charm at all.
Just another dementor wanting my soul.
You can have my body,you can have my mind.
But believe me this promise I made to thee.
As long as the wind enters the stairways of my hell.
I shall prevent thee from corrupting my mind.
You shall cheat no more from me a part of my thoughts.
And make castles of thin air with the "stories" I just told.
So be pleased with your jealousy and self-glorifying ways.
This my final adieu to you my dear friend-"Happy Plays".


PS:when i say good-bye i really mean it...people are rid of my mind and heart forever as if they never existed at all..this poem says goodbye to some-one.

For You

There are a thousand people thousand a way
Because all these people have to have their say

They tell us this wont work and that is wrong
But who told them what is right all along

And did they ever stand where we do
Did they take my eyes to look at you

Did they ever check my heartbeat
Did they ever dare to take my seat

Rite now I am under the butterfly's sway
I will destroy all who get in our way

To break us a lot of them will try
And when they do they will die

I shall die without you being with me
So I shall fight for you with my life you see