The Nurse

One pale day when I will be all sad and dejected, disappointed by life. Sitting by the window with my head perched on the table looking out at the rain and the dark grey desolate sky. I would be lost somewhere in the melancholy of it. And then you would come. Sit by my side and not say a word. Without breaking the silence, without ruining the sanctity of the moment, you would just sit by my side. And bring your head by mine. You would look at me warmly with the intensity of those eyes, your hazel eyes swirling with molten honey. And gently you will bring your scented fingers to my hair. And you will stroke them. You will stroke them with all the love you have ever known. You will run those slender fingers between those glossy black hairs as if you waited a lifetime for this moment. And your soft pores will absorb all the pain and sorrow. And I would just sit quietly, close my eyes and let you be the healer, let you be the nurse. Let you wrap yourself around me like a child. Let you be the balm I have waited for eternity. I’ll let you soothe me, comfort me, nurse me back me to health. Let you caress all my wounds. Let you be that coat in the cold. And in that moment I know I will be fine, I will be good. I will be healed, all my pain gone all the sorrow whisked away, all my pangs dissolved, all my sadness vanishing into thin air. 

Vineyard

We are sowing a vineyard

You and I

Watering it each day

With our warmth and care

Nurturing it with

With affection and love

And this vineyard will grow

And it will flourish

One day when we will part

When you would go your own path

And I will go my own way

One day when we will finally say

The final goodbye

When I will leave you

And you will leave me

This vineyard of ours

It will engulf us

Surround our beings

The vines will wrap them around us

Strangling and suffocating  

With all our warmth

Our care and affection

All the madness

The poison

And chaos

And then finally

The grapes will be picked

And the wine brewed

The wine of our memories

Of unheard melodies and unsung sonnets

Of regrets and sorrows

Of pain and pangs

Of unsaid words and repressed desires

Of sad goodbyes and streams of secret tears

Of unfulfilled wishes and long sighs

And we will pour that wine

In our own places

In our own glasses

In our own times

And we will drink it

We will drink it to our fill

Without clinking our glasses

And seeing the other in the eye

The wine of our vineyard

Dreams and Nightmares

 

We had a dream

Of a shimmery evening

On the pier by the sea

Then we had a nightmare

Of dark desolate alleys

With demons and monsters alike

Playing it Safe

Let's not toy with sanity now

Let sane logic prevail

Let us part now

And swim in shallow waters

Playing it safe

Sunset

As I passed

Through the highway

Sitting by the window

The gleaming sunset caught my eye

The sky

A tapestry of blue and pink

Weaved together

In a lifelong embrace

And the scattered specks of clouds

The shape of your finely done eyebrows

Over those dry rocky mounts

I was spellbound

My gaze held

By the divine palette of colors

As the sun went slowly down

And the auras changed

To red and gold

Out of nowhere

I saw your face appear

That glint of your brown eyes

Your sunlight kissed face

And that smile

Dancing before my eyes once more

I Will Go Now

I will just go now

Walk away

Stutter to a land far off

And sleep like a baby

 In a meadow

With marble benches

Dark green canopies

And yellow fruits

Melody

But don't you know

You are the melody

Which makes the strings of this lute

Dance to perfection?

Do You Know?

Do you know?

How is it

To have to keep your demons locked

With nothing to unleash them on

Do you know?

How is it

 To watch the demons

 Dancing the evil dance

With their fingers flicking with fire

While move round and round

In a circle around you

And you sit and stare

As they make those evil faces

Stick their tongues out                                               

And laugh those impish grins

Do you know?

How is it

To have a range of hells

Inside your head

And move from one hell to another

Every changing moment

Guiding Star

 

And then

I fashioned you out

From my heart

In glitter and stardust

Poured in it on my palms

And whisked it away to the heavens

There you flew

And became the bright star

In the dark sky above my head

Becoming the guiding light

My guiding star

Bliss

Deserted rooftop

The soothing silence of the night

Roll of thunder in the distance

2 am conversations

With the cloudy sky

The crickets chirping nearby

Wafts of cool breeze on my face

Loose flip flops in the feet

The spontaneous smile

The bliss of solitude!

Wounds And Time

There are some wounds which never heal. These are the ones you never get over. They say that time heals everything. But the truth is that it does not. Time does not heal them. They just become numb. Or we just get used to them. Maybe we do. I don’t know. I am not sure. Time just puts its infinite layers on them. And each day passes the layers keep on increasing. One layer after the other. And the wounds are buried deep inside them. Safe. Out of sight. Somewhere down below. But never healed. A little bruise, a slight shove and there they surface again. Raw and fresh as they once were. Cut open again. Seeping with blood. 

You And I

We are poetic.

No we are poetry.

You and I.

We are like art.

No we are art.

You and I.

If It Were For Me

If it were for me

I would lie in your lap forever

And let you stroke my hair

All night long

If it were for me

I would cry in your hair

And bare my soul

Let you stitch

All the pieces together

If it were for me

I'd hold you in my arms

Kiss your forehead

And never let you go

If it were for me

I'd let you hold my face

And caress it

Ruffle my hair

For forever and ever

If it were for me

I'd never cut loose

The electrical connection

Which runs

 Between us

Like wild fire.

Fine Wine

So then

We became

Each other's fine wine

Taking a draught

Only when thirsty

Bring Me A Potion

Bring me a potion

An elixir

Something that would shut the mind

Numb the senses

Stop the avalanche of thoughts

Halt the whirlpool of crazy obsessions

Fend the volcano of dark demons

And If Ever

 

And if I ever find you

As a whiff of fresh air

Or a fragrance lingering somewhere beautiful

I will bare my soul

I will bare my soul to you.