Monday, September 14, 2009

SOME THOUGHTS...

What life is……..one can never understand….just when one thinks he has understood it, life serves him right…we are merely creatures dropped from heaven to get acquainted with human sufferings and ailments…for realizing the pains that can be inflicted by other human selves….we start our journey like a colorful butterfly who has just come out of its cocoon and spread its wings….after feeding voraciously on green leaves for a long period and crawling all day in a monotonous green body, the caterpillar, unaware of the calmness and the prosperity of the color, yearns for the wonderful colors it has the potential to reflect…..but soon after, it becomes exhausted of its tiring flights and approaches the end of the journey without even realizing it.

Similarly, on the way of life, we lose the brightness of the colors we initially thought would always surround us…life seems nothing but a bubble which looks beautiful and rises high…..yet it never knows, when its existence will be nothing more than a whiff which might have been a thing of joy for others but which will never be remembered once over… the only absolute way to live life painlessly is not to expect……but to keep walking……which is virtually beyond human capacity….and hence the sorrows…the scorch of the Sun shining above a passer-by is so intense that he can’t help but be tempted by a river flowing by or a tree, which, although distant in sight has a canopy large enough to embrace him…….hence deviating him from the way of life cleverly adorning it with twists and turns…..which are like the beautiful woods leading to the devil’s cave…the riddles required to be solved to reach there being the relations which unknowingly bind him and drown him into a sea of emotions from where he can neither come out nor dive deeper for the fear of losing himself altogether… and thus, he keeps floating endlessly looking for and awaiting the destination he has long lost but doesn’t admit…

This illusion, this false hope and this madness keeps him afloat…..pushes him forward with every ripple defending him from every turbulence…..to give every chance to destiny to enact what is in store for the swimmer who was once just a passer-by, who has now learnt to swim and is satiated by the worldly whims, so nothing more can tempt him….strengthened by the relations which had initially served as mere hindrances…to see the last ray of the Sun before it sets, so that those behind him don’t stop sailing….so that a passer-by keeps stopping at the bank of the river and give it meaning by quenching his thirst….so that he keeps visiting a lonely tree to take a sigh of relief in its cool breeze…so that he keeps telling his children tales of the fairy woods and not stop them from spreading their wings of imagination for the fear of the devil’s cave….so that the caterpillar keeps feeding on the leaves which would otherwise wither away and get soiled….so that the butterfly keeps soaring high in the sky and spreading its vibrant and jubilant colors…so that we can keep watching them in ecstasy hoping we could fly one day….

This is what keeps life going….appreciate every form of it…for you might not get a second chance…at least you can say you lived one of them….!

BLOSSOMING ~~~

 


The bud that was embowered is now by itself, 
To abide by the laws..
And grow up into a beautiful flower
That is destined to bloom and aromatize its suburbs !

But, the wind blows over the petals
The petals reluctant to open up, get pulled both the ways-

Eventually, giving up…

I’m in a mesh of thoughts
Thoughts novel and fresh
They compel me to re-consider, what it means to be happy !

A thousand laughing faces
But, still, the smile lacks…

A thousand arms ready to embrace
But, still, the warmth lacks…

Clusters of words being spoken and heard
But, none strikes a chord in my heart…

A thousand steps to move on
But, still, the path undone…

What my eyes await
And what my soul craves for
Is…………………………..

The stroke that can fill colours
In the shapes I’ve ever drawn
Colours vibrant and beautiful
Colours of life and love

That can beautify my carvings which are complete but unfinished..
Which are sharp and defined, but, waiting…
For that touch of finesse !
For the shades to fill in
Shades light and dark that can accompany me
On every path of life
Not like my shadow
But, like a robe
With which I can move on and walk against the wind !
And still remain embowered in its warmth and fine creases.

THE ART OF DUALITY !




Love makes life beautiful
With the beauty that is skin deep
But, beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder….
The eyes that sparkle,
Not with any material joy
But, with the radiance of the internal cheer
That dwells in the heart
And rushes through the soul
Trespassing every vein to manifest its flight
Not with its wings that can be clipped
But, with its spirit that is airy and shapeless.
It soars great heights…
To coalesce with the clouds,
Clouds dense and thin that travel distances far and wide
Only to shower the contained ecstasy.
That sooths innumerable hearts
Making them yearn for more…
They thin out and depart looking for thirsty hearts
And the contentment that floods them by quenching the discontent
By satiating the insatiable
With the flow of ambrosia that leads to eternal mirth

Its said that………..

The roses bloom because of the spring
But, it’s the blooming of the roses that makes spring, spring !

The butterfly looks beautiful because of the vibrant colors
But, they’re the wings that make the colors meet our eyes !

The fragrance of the flowers attracts the drones
But, it’s the visit of the drone that recognizes the locked fragrance !

The river flows with the pride that it quenches many thirsts
But, it’s the thirst that compels Creation to make the water sweet !

The oyster awaits the fall of a single drop of rain
But, it’s the shell of the oyster that harbours the pearling drop !

The blade of the grass is beautified by the dew-drop
But, it’s the tip of the blade that holds the drop to shine !

The mother loves her child and nurtures its life
But, it’s the child that bestows her with the gift of maternity !

Nature reigns till eternity
With an aura of duality
To symbolize and signify the love that resides in every heart
But, the love is lifeless until one gives it
And soul-less until one receives it !