Our Rhyme

Yellowing trees,
Hung with berries,
White pasteurs,
Caressing winter loos,
Throttle my dreams,but I still sleep.
With Death on my side,at crossroads now,
I walk Saintless Street.

And then I come back to  you.
They said it wasn't true.
I believed their religion then,
But am an atheist now for you.
And across the lightyears of time,
I see now,
How perfectly we rhymed.
If only you died.
I see you like I never tried,
I believe you like I lied.
Pray for you like I have to hide.
It comes like a runaway bride.
If only you died.

Climbing tilt ladders,
Fixing spotlights,
For the choir to sing,
Black curtains rise
Under glaring neon lights,I fall asleep.
With Death on my side,at crossroads now,
I walk Saintless Street.

And then I come back to  you.
They said it wasn't true.
I believed their religion then,
But am an atheist now for you.
And across the lightyears of time,
I see now,
How perfectly we rhymed.
If only you died.
I see you like I never tried,
I believe you,I lied.
Pray for you like I have to hide.
It comes like a runaway bride.

And the rain comes down,in brilliant drops,
Bare your skin,to the wise dollops.
Dont let the wisps of heaven's addiction,
Flee to anyone else's sky.
Come,old friend,
Let us get wet together tonight.

Lets get drenched in the words unspoken,
Let the morn wait,keep the moon hidden,
Let me breathe for you under this aerial sea,
Wont you come,can't you hear me?

Let us get wet together tonight...
In more rain a million galaxies can hide,
In the bloom of a  fiery spring tide,
Come to the old times.

Humble is my Pride-Watermark--------The Song.

Within the ring now,
Spectators,dictators crowd.
Exposed falsehoods of the silver lining of the cloud---

Dont let it escape,rain will wash away,
Dont let the cloud escape,rain must wash away
Watermark upon the glass from which we both drink,
Watermark to remind you where you had to sink.

Watermark in my tears quiver,
Along the banks of lotus lake.
The world beneathe the ice captured you forever
And time is now I get to surface!

Fear me not,I'm not here to kill,
What can I do,if your vanity likes my sword's hilt,
Suppress me not,I make you feel,
I reflect your reflections,always did.

The monsoon comes close,witness to your ramblings,
They wet you not,you should dress like me.

But now,bow down,while all looks on,
This ring close in,victory's for one alone.
Kneel,please,I wish not to slay my kin
I love you,but I cannot see myself ruined.

And you are....my ruin....

Guilty as charged,
Lips black,all parched.
The jury's entranced,why don't you speak?

Don't let the trance break,their hot hiss will erase,
Dont let their trance break,their hot hiss will erase
Watermark that divides you and me,
Watermark,wintry draught do you see?

Watermark,in my tears quiver,
Along the banks of a lotus lake.
The world beneathe the ice captured you forever,
Time is now I get to surface.

Fear me not I'm not here to kill,
What can I do,if your vanity likes my sword's hilt.
Suppress me not,I only make you feel,
Reflect your reflections,always did.

Fear me not,I'm not here to kill,
I must,I'm obliged to let you live.
I'm only to relieve your flesh of wax,
And conceal your snow tracks.

The rain rusts your hollow mask,shed your skin.
A nascent flake in the hail befalls,are your bleedin'?

Where in watermark,still remains a memory,
Of your descent,'lo when you needed me,
I can still hear the purl of your last cry for help,
Under a million raindrops,I can still hear the ocean call.

And you're....gone.....
Broken doll.....
You're gone....

The Beyonders

She watched them in silence,numbed by their pain,
As she walked the draught,handing out medicines,
Killers of pain they swallow,pallid disdain
Etched upon the war-wounds in their skins.

He beheld her from afar,through smoke-laden evening air,
Its salty tang upon his bleeding knees mollified
As he spied through his poison ivy bush lair,
Humbled by her tears,his pain burnt as desire.

And their blank faces screamed,
We're fighting a losing battle.
Soon these flags will be tattered,
To shepherd bloodshed of hearts riddled.

But they gazed away,from the two ends
Like little lamplights across a tunnel,
While battle roared and thrashed before them
Their eyes remained in each other's shakles.

Someone yelled to her,kill him,
He will slaughter you like cattle.
But all was quiescent,under the carcass,
He fought a losing battle.
Until...

A sword clanged to the haven of Death,
Nobody turned at a halt,
He stood armless,
A brief look as of funeral,
And the swords clashed on,
His limp demeanour fell in prayer
Pledge to forgiveness,
Unto Mighty Warrior's Song.

A smile lingered on his lips,
Ghost of a kiss lurked on his cheeks.
Lilting notes can be heard still
From where he sleeps.

As the battle runs deep,
Nobody knows where he sleeps
Mellow,forgiven betrayal reaps...
Somewhere...


Somewhere...can be heard lilting notes,
Of his violin
As she rocks and knits wintercoats
And sews and sings,
With a smile at his frequent looks.
Somewhere far off, beyond the mongergames...
Yonder where no one will ever seek them...
Beyonders,they wield love in their name.
Beyond,they wield victory
The frosty battles could never claim.

Flight of Grace,Fall into Place

Lower your hood,
Shame will only wreak destruction,
Face the moon,
We know about your demented visions...


The morning is dawning...
When you become us.
You are frail,
You succumb to our old cold rust.


Hypnotizing,elegant,so hayed 
Was the memory of your old bed.
Now that you're gone,they rip down your portraits,
Soldering your shreds,sold are your diary's pages.
But you're falling....

You're falling,
And you're falling...
Cold and naked is this earth.
Falling,you're falling,
Falling from grace you are,
And you are...
One among us.

In the past,
When we tried to flee far from home,
You numbed the crowning beast in us...
Though you failed bitterly,
'Cause by the first notes of cageless birds...

We would be gone,
Lacey strings torn.
Hold our head down,unwind the airs and graces,
Silk heels,satin straitjackets fly traceless.

But you're falling for the ashes,
Of your besmirched letters.
You're falling,you're falling...
Faling from grace you are.
And you are ...
One among us.


Lower your hood,
Shame will only wreak destruction,
Face the moon,
We know about your demented visions.
Feel free to feel
No mercy for your desertion...
Why blame us?Look there she
Walks away where your betrayed us.

At this depth from the sea-level,
Water mere clogs your perception,
You shall live,you need not breathe,
All is well for creatures underneathe.


Insects fed to the hounds of the castles,
Scurry away towards the light underground.
Open tunnels teach your old rimless rooms to see
The end of Fear and Tomorrow's beginnings.
Light of the Sea,
You see defiantly.
While they who dwell above us,
Flourish blackglasses,
To weep...
For you selfishly...

Feel consoled that
We've all basked in your dreams.
At the end we've all woken up
To the same mornings.

The verdict is declared.
Their words wont change,
Their black eyes glare
Like a void in the sky that ascends.

Lower your hood,
Shame will only wreak destruction,
Face the moon,
Your darkcircles play sacrifice.

But you're falling,
And you're still falling,
Cold and naked is this earth.
You're falling,you're falling,
Falling from grace you are,
You have slept with them long enough,
Its time to come down to us.
You've fallen.
You're one among us...

Fossilised Innocence---Farewell to thy love!

Cradle of evolution is reopened.
Doldrum winds whisper apology to the sails again.
Dust of freedom in the pace of Mighty Stallion
Blinds the eyes of who binds his mane...

But...
I stand numb to it all.

I still dread going upto the next class,
Still fear the floors above.
Classroom walls graffitied,engraved desks
Eke my song,farewell to thy Love!

Sins of my Time,sings behind---
Sins etched upon the ticklish lost godchild.
I walk the drunken lanes of Fortitude...
I walk drunken.

Little paper dingies and mindless drowning,
Right to fury for no reason at all---
I wish I could fly,again,to the Riversun,
And await the cliched hours to be cajoled back home.

But No one comes...
Not today...

Fireworks in the Autumn sky,
Luminiscent ink trickling down the curves
of the Great Dome---
Prayers that the prayers of the playrival be scorched,
Sapid in the forgiving twinkle
Of the Diabolical strip in the rainbow.

Lucid,calm,I am now.
The sweat of the day is now gone...

Whereto flew the pasteled pages of masterpieces,
"Playpark" and "Little Johnny's Raingames"---
Did it burn in the fireworks,or...
Did the dingy drown with it?---

I...
Know not...

Playing knights and damsels of heavenhigh mansions,
Daring them to duel me,after Night falls all around me,
I dwindle away the night,middle of the destined alley,
Gazing through the mist that settles,...
Upon the silhoutte mistaken...
A new friend?
Will he tell me the way back home?

The Mistake of Age forbids now...
To be ever mistaken thus...ever again...

The song in my head,drives ahead.
Speedlimits whoosh past!
Then the tinkling of a void...
And the music screeches to an abrupt halt.

The growing lines of Forsaken misery,
---Misery of an adult's solitude---
Emanates a radiance Untold.
A lone kite entangled in Light,
Ripples all alone.

Snow-mantled fields in my dreams
Bury a spring once that bloomed.
I rush back leaving the river to purl alone,
For I know...
No one will come to cajole me home.
Not today...

Cradle of evolution is open again...
But I weep for the fossils of my Stone Age.
Days of Innocence---
Farewell to thy love!

Higher Education

Learning to breathe underwater,

       Learning my creed from my virgin Mother,

I know how to pick and count the scabs of my mistakes.

Learning to read treasure maps upsidedown,

Learning to find my way in sand-swept towns,
I know how to hold a hand unheeding of the complexion.

Mysterious,mysterious,hope you live there...
Where I glimpsed you last up ahead of me
On Eleventh Stair.

Oblivion,oh oblivion,do you sleep alone?
Like polka-dotted scapes in my head,
Revived from a street-side grayout...

Cold wind in my flame,warm upto this Fate.
Hail,your distortions of the shadows of the Night...
Upon the walls-
Where years passed in constancy,
Peace-the monsoon steeled for the solar eclipse.
...Shall not abide.

Education,...education--
Black words encroached on a page.
So very limp,on pages just as dead,
Unable to survive a splash of its own ink.
Drawled lectures and hallucinations,
Fevered chalked writings on the wall white beyond the blackboard.
Hushed utterances,
Silence lest the concrete pillars might hear...
That we did learn.

Learning to make my worship to closed closets,
Learning to steal their arms,stealthy,covet.
I see them grieving,bleeding over the clank of fallen armours.
Learning to paint starless skies,
Learning to look upto the rain on a bridge on the brink to break,
I know how to cling onto the last clothing of iron-hold.

Education,oh Education.
Black words encroach on their pages.
As limp as they are dead,
Cannot even see beyond the margins.
Cannot even comprehend the piercing nib,
Cannot even predict the fire that will turn them to ashdust,
Soon.

I shall not abide.