The Road

You know while travelling in a train,
Sometimes, there’s a road that comes along?
You want that road to keep company with the tracks,
And somewhere in the line, it departs,
But your eyes,
They trace ’em back.
There comes a long tunnel,
and you anxiously hope to catch it on the other end!
You strain your eyes until the road is out of sight.
And then you just sit there watching it slip off?

You are that road to me.
The window sight is greener now,
And no matter how much I adore these forests,
My eyes keep wandering back to you!

We Won’t Forget Each Other, Right?

As I sit there,
Looking into his eyes,
I know I won’t see him tomorrow.
He takes me into his arms,
Pretending to smile,
“What?”, he asks.
I tell him, I don’t have answers,
Just questions, I can’t ask.
He tells me it’ll be okay,
I know we’ll survive.
But all I wanna ask is

“We won’t forget each other, right?”

He said he’d see me,
But I dont’t trust tomorrows.
I want to know how?
And I want to know exactly when?
I want to know if we are still together?
I want to know if this is the end?

It’s 2 a.m,
I ask him to stay a little longer,
But he says it’s too late.
He walks with me to the roadside,
Probably for the last time.
I look at him once again,
Trying to memorise every scar on his face,
Every flinch that he makes,
That half smile,
And those beautiful eyes.
I look up,
And I hope for a shooting star,
So I can wish for this moment to freeze.

He’s holding my hands now,
I feel everything shattering inside,
And as he pulls me closer,
I know it’s goodbye.

VIBGYOR

Have you ever cried so much,
that even the clouds couldn’t contain it?

So they finally burst,
and you dance to their rythm,
you dance till your feet’s cold,
and your body shivers,
and then you dance a little more,
until you finally realize it’s over.

You sit down now,
and you try to remember,
the warmth in his arms,
that felt so much like home.
But right now, 
You just want to feel cold.
And you know cold is numb, 
so you feel it and you let it go.

You know how they say,
light travels faster than sound?

Well, your cries haven’t made it yet,
But look, 
Every tear drop of yours is reflecting
VIBGYOR.

The sky is shining in the colours of your ache.
And for some reason, 
It doesn’t make you feel sad anymore.

My Coffee

It was strange, the way we met,
Cliche yet strange.
It’s been more than three years now,
And it is still strange, the way we fell in love.
And during these years, our thoughts collided.
Like shooting stars we fell, 
Into arms of each other.
Mornings with you, beautiful.
Evenings, mesmerizing.
Nights, as serene as glaciers flowing.
We had our own latte cups and cheese cake moments,
Our time running out yet still.
Our fingers entwined just like our souls,
Two hopeless romantics.
Nomads searching for a place unknown,Unknown to the world.
Making our own chaos,
And we laughed,
As we did things to each other.
Inhaling nostalgia like air,
Falling for love breath by breath.
And as my day starts by you,
Now I know why,
I don’t long for my coffee anymore.

Bonfire

Standing there,
The crowd surrounding me,
Singing jingles,
I wonder,
What is it?
A melodious goodbye
Or just noises too high?
Those faces,
Laughing out loud,
Are they really happy
Or just too sad?
Those dancing figures,
Are they enjoying this,
Or are they just too mad?
Past years flooding in,
I look at you,
And I wonder,
Is it a new beginning
Or just an end?

Silence

That night she heard,
A voice she always feared.
That night she saw,
She was clenched in his claw.
Dream or reality?
It hurt her fidelity.
She had cared too far,
It ripped her apart.
Her soul drowned in pain,
She had cried out in vain.
Murder or suicide?
She couldn’t decide.
So they made the pyre,
And she let them burn her alive.
Afraid of the crowd,
She had shut her mouth.
In a hope for the day,
When silence speaks loud!

Is this how it ends?

Walking down the memory lane today,
I wondered, can you be so close to some one,
and yet not know who they are?
I saw all those pictures of us.
Those pictures you remember?
They hold infinite memories,
Of laughter, of joy, of happiness, of us.

When I first met you,
I didn’t know we were gonna end up like this,
Neither enemy nor frenemy,
Neither strangers nor friends.

Walking down the memory lane today,
I wondered, can you be so close to some one,
and yet not know what they are gonna do to you?
I saw all those pictures of us.
Those pictures you remember?
They haunt me now,
On nights like these, I cry my heart out.

When I first met you,
I didn’t know we were gonna end up like this,
Neither enemy nor frenemy,
Neither strangers nor friends.

Walking down the memory lane today,
I wondered, can you be so close to some one,
and yet so far far away?
I saw all those pictures of us
Those pictures you remember?
They hold so many questions now,
And when it’s too hard to keep in, I scribble them down.

When I first met you,
I didn’t know we were gonna end up like this,
Neither enemy nor frenemy,
Neither strangers nor friends.

But tell me, can you please?
Is this how it ends?

Of Wind and Mountains

A spontaneous plan,
Three ardent soul,
The mountains were calling,
So we started.
Far from ground,
As we reach to the top of it,
I ran towards the edge,
With arms wide open,
Almost wanting to hug the wild wind,
I stood there waiting for it to hug me back.
The wind just caressed my skin
and passed through me,
But I was content in that mere intimacy.
As I know,
It’s their nature to flow.
And then I sat on the cliff,
Staring into it’s depths,
Everlasting and desolate,
But I loved how still it was.
As I know,
It’s their nature to stay.
And I realized,
I’ve met winds that soar high,
And mountains with the deepest valley,
And how I’ve loved them both equally.

Your Melodies

These days,
I have so much on my plate,
I never strive to even think about you,
But like the coffee stain from years long gone,
Your brew is too strong,
Like a deep tan of all those summer vacays,
Your colour stays.
Like a sun burn in desert
Your wounds still hurt,
And like the half learnt lyrics of a faded song,
Your melodies just come along!

Stay

Thank you, like all the other ones,
you pulled me out of this illusion too.
This illusion of living with you!

So there I was, hit hard into the reality again, sitting infront of you, my mind still reviving from what I heard, my heart still thriving to say something, anything!

I gulped a lump of dejection down my throat, It burned my innerself.
Your words still echoing in my head, like a sad song kept on repeat.

I don’t blame you, but I liked it there, the illusion I live in feels a better place, I have you there, laughing with me, caring about me and unlike reality, you stay.

Can I not bring you here? Can you not stay?