HYPNOTIC DECEIT

those eyes
those eyes
were too beautiful
to be true
perhaps there always
had lurked
shadows of doubt
in the crevices
of my faith
perhaps
i always knew
in the ambiguity
of your promises
in the suaveness
of your ardour
had lain the bankruptcy
of my emotions
those eyes
those eyes
were too brown
to be true
we played a game
of self deception
and persuasion
so what
if it didn’t last
so long as it did
those eyes
your eyes, held mine
in hypnotic deceit
between the lines
i saw nothing
all that i beheld
were your
eyes, eyes, eyes

LIES

how many lies
does it take
to make a truth
how many lies
does it take
to deceive oneself
the ones we say
to ourselves
and those to others
in running away from
the injuries we inflict
on those whom
we betray
how many lies
do we need
to convince ourselves
of our own benevolence
and the other’s
unreasonableness
you want to serve love
on your own platter
asking not
of her desire
but then it is you
who will decide
how love ought to be
yesterday, today
and tomorrow
she acquiesces to your
changing moods
after all
you are a man
notorious
for your hypocrisies
infamous for
your emotional penury

VERY BASIC

do not place me
on a pedestal
do not make me
an object of worship
for worldly convenience
i am human too
you forgot
what you had said
take as much
as you want
but courage failed you
promises turned turtle
elevation was necessary
so you made
me into a deity
and placed a halo
on my head
i would have been
for you
what you wanted
without this burden
i had my needs
just like yours
very basic
very raw
very real
by turning me into
an object of obescience
you robbed me
of my womanhood
and left me
still to find

COLLATERAL DAMAGE

with clinical precision
you press the button
you bomb the target
you complete your mission
its thumbs up for you
its all so asceptic
so sterile, almost surgical
you dont have to see
what lies below
infants dead clutching
their mother's breasts
invalids crushed
becausethey could not run
dreaming children
buried beneath rubble
no blood, no gore
so high above
you soar in the skies
you return to your base
leaving behind a bloody trail
when fingers will point
and wails follow
you will shrug and say
some collateral damage
will always be there

HOW MANY MORE?

How many more
Must you kill
Before your hunger
Is satiated
How many more
Ethnicities
Must you cleanse
Before your earth
Is purged
How many more
Infidels must die
Before your justice
Is done
How many more
Downtrodden
Must be trampled
Before your
Empires are safe
How many more
Little girls
Must be raped
Before your lust is
Fulfilled
How many more
Children must
Blow themselves up
Before your cause
is met
How many
How many
How many
The soil is wet
From the blood
That you drew
The skies are torn
By rending screams
Pain is everywhere
No messiah seen
Who will deliver
This earth
From its
inhabitants

WALK AWAY FREE

Kill your soul
and live on
The currency
for buying peace
No questions
No hopes
No aberrations
Live on
Fulfill obligations
Do your duty
Duty
the primordial millstone
The millstone
we all carry
Often willingly
sometimes grudgingly
For we have
promised to tag along
To break not the shell
To feel not the air
Do all that you hate
and carry on
Pull the shutters down
Let the brain freeze
Let the heart die
To hurt all the time
But not dare
To live and
walk away free

JOURNEY ALONE

Please cut the strings
Remove all chains
Set me free
I want none of it
Aloneness
is singularly what I want
Just to be
To have no more
Of anybody, or anything
We are all alone
On this journey
of ours
In this search
of truth
The sand of time
is falling fast
The fists hold no grain
Was life meant
to be only this
Of chores and
making ends meet

COFFIN

every morning i get up
and enter my coffin
i enter and want life
to peep in
i wait for someone
to lift the lid
and send a shaft
of light
a ray of hope
a blessing of delight
but i who carries
the dead weight
of my person
does not know
how to shed
the shroud of darkness
which you cloaked me with
something i did not deserve
i turn into dust
in this life itself
you breathed death
into me
for my sin
of loving you

SHADOWS

shadows lengthen
they lengthen and enter me
dark,shapeless and ugly
shadows
they enter me and make
a shadow out of me
time lies heavy
it does not fly anymore
the way it used to
when you were there
time the unreal gnome
from flight to stagnation
it reaches
it bewilders me
a shadow yet
so very alone among
shadows i am
i sit and brood
i shelve into the past
for there i am
more comfortable
i see you
and myself ofcourse
two beings crushed
together in joyous pain
once again thought
finds wings ,and
just for awhile
immobility finds transport