Wednesday, October 25, 2023

The cradle

 



When in doubt,

I go back to 333031.

The love, the affection, unwavering,

After all this time, next to none.

 

I couldn’t help but revisit,

People who have shifted spaces.

But the respect showered, the attachment,

Mandate covering all places.

 

By the time I signed off,

I felt humbled, beyond words,

The humility, I now needed,

Some change was always on the cards.

 

The trio still goes strong,

Only on the periphery, changes occur.

On the inside, I get clarity,

On questions that recur.

 

I conclude, this space remains,

And the pursuit of love survives,

Beyond buildings and boundaries,

Beyond our ill-conceived notions of lives.

 

 

Tuesday, October 17, 2023

All this time?



 

Serve, all mortals must,

But something divine,

Must add worth to our lives.

Only the worthy are blessed,

With love that feels like bliss-

Which against all odds, survives.

 

Love can never be transacted,

Though, relations can go down that line,

My love marches on to the deathbed,

Never mattered, realities of life.

 

I have often revisited old times,

And also, the ones thereafter,

I have been to places,

Been with people, who couldn’t matter.

 

I am a non-conformist,

My love is forever, though,

My beliefs, my commitments,

Of all people, you must already know.

 

Unlike your revised, biased version,

I was always a practical man,

Ultra sorted,

Beyond limits of human imagination.

 

Sure, I was about you, always,

Just waiting for all your shells to break,

Time was never an issue, frankly,

I was forever, you knew it mate.


The last words exchanged,

Might have been the end of an era,

Dissipating in a moment,

All that ever was.

 

But here I stand,

In the midst of what remains,

Unwavering in my belief that,

In incorruptible hearts, love always sustains.


Because you must know,

I still feel the magic,

I felt in the beginning,

And I hope, you didn’t find a mimic.


On the other side of this world,

No matter what, I will find you someday,

But if you were always true,

Right here, I would ask you to stay.