Challenge

When the dusty winds blew,
When the noisy clouds thundered,
I swam this deep turbulent ocean,
Escaping the whales and the dolphins.

How big now the new challenge is?
When I mastered juggling with knives,
How monstrous is it to balance the weights?

Binary System

I yearn for intelligent conversations,
I crave those crazy nothings.
I delve deep into intense emotions,
I shallow dive over those unreal inhibitions.

Am that black, or that white.
Grey has never been my type.
Am that dark or that light,
Never can I find my way in the twilight.
Vibrant colours or just blindness,
Intense love or extreme hatred.

Am that obsolete binary system,
And for me, it has always been either one or just none.

Rain

Those tiny droplets started their journey all the way from the heavens, 
Piercing the giant fleecy clouds,
Racing with lightning speed,
And finally reached the Earth’s atmosphere.

Panting and then taking a deep breath,
Pausing their way dancing over leaflets,
Jumped down from my terrace,
Just to glide over my forehead and cheeks,
Which are tired of waiting for their arrival standing in the balcony.

Greeted me with a sweet warm kiss,
And then, dunk me in delight of petrichor.

As always, I am in love with the rain.

Scars

When someone comforts you saying that your scars and imperfections do not define you, 
My dear, unwelcome the undesirable suggestions.

For they not only define you but mould you into a stronger person.
They beautify you more than possessing a sculpted body.
And prepare you for bigger challenges.
They not only cleanse your misconceptions,
They also do help you aim for greater missions.

But honey,
Only if you could learn from what gave you those scars,
What pointed you out that you’re imperfect,
If you can make an effort to let them make you look beautiful,
And only if you can let them scar you to carve you.

He and She

She's beautiful.
He's charming.
She's talkative.
He's silent.
She's expressive.
He's not.

She expressed her love for him and he seemed silent. She requested him to accept her, and he turned it down. She wept uncontrollably and started to walk away from him.

He couldn't hold it anymore. He grabbed her hand and hugged her hard. He kissed her like crazy and knelt down on his feet. He surrendered himself and confessed his love for her.

The seemingly unrequited love had the happiest ending.
The Earth and the Sky are once again united by the incessant rain.

Cherish the Moment

Mom's recipes don't taste yummy until we're compelled to eat the hostel food.
Dad's care isn't understood until we miss his love being away from him due to circumstances.
Brother's fight isn't nostalgic until he gets busy being busy.
Friend's company isn't missed until we realise his/her absence.

We often take things for granted.
It's sad that we don't understand the pain of parting as long as we are together,
And we do not understand the love of someone as long as we take their presence for granted.

Nothing in life is easy. And nothing that we have is unworthy.
Love in all forms is precious and at times we immerse ourselves in other things so much that we start taking everything for granted.

Introspection

With the fuzzy pace our lives have caught,
It has become difficult to retrospect ourselves.
What’s right and what’s wrong?

It has become a necessity to run with time.
But, is it not essential to be wary of the course we are taking?
We are doing a year’s job in an hour’s time compared to the last decade.
Also, we are destroying a century old treasure in a minute’s time.
Is the pace desirable or dangerous?

Machines, mobile phones and metro trains.
Are they our convenience or we their slaves?
Are we on the path where we have imagined ourselves to be?
Or are we on the verge of becoming robots we wanted to build for ourselves but have never thought of becoming one?
Time for some INTROSPECTION.