High Hopes

Sometimes,
I ask like a child,
Or out of audacity,
about what I wrote

Like the pegged ones
on the clothesline ask:
Can't you see?
I flutter so well.
Can you fly me
like a kite tomorrow?


~ May 19, 2021

Life in a Summer Bath

Sometimes,
Life becomes so meaningless
like a bath in deep summer.

You do it
expecting something
that's not even close to pleasure
But all you get is
frustration and regret.

Yet,
You go on.

Eventually,
dawns the ultimate realization:
that one must do their duty
Notwithstanding the outcomes.


~ April 06, 2021

Moonset

Dear crescent
That's setting in the west

Today,
I am like you in certain ways

It's just late evening
You've already retired
Thin, sinking, and fading
Your life's over for the day
You are bleeding to death
And no goodbyes to say

Yet, I am unlike you
In just one way
A hundred more things to do
But if I sat any longer
I felt I would just decay


~ Mar 16, 2021

For the Sweetest Song Ever!

O! Sweet song,
This moment,
Ask me who I want to love.
I would look at you,
Unhesitatingly!

You sound to me like
the sweet voice of my lover,
ringing constantly into my ears,
ever so mellifluously.
Look at the irony:
I've begun to listen to you dutifully,
though you sing in a language
that's a little strange to me.

And as I take you in slowly,
you dribble me in a shower,
raining not of water, but honey
I declare, I'll never be sane again.

When I make sense of you,
my love sees no bound
I'm in a constant state of ecstasy
I dance and float around, like
I've never been on ground. By now,
you've held me in your sway
And, I realize to my dismay
my senses have gone astray

O! sweet song,
This moment,
Ask me who I want to be.
I would point to you,

Unflinchingly!


~ Nov 05, 2020