The Fire

Is it true, is all I have today
The remnants of a frozen fire
Within my soul
Is it only this pain
That has over my life
Its complete control

My soul is on fire today
My feelings burn
In its incandescent flame
Perhaps it would burn with it
All signs of my pain
Perhaps finally it would obliterate
From my heart your name

The heat from the flame
Is pleasing to my cold shadow
It brings back memories
Of your warm embrace
It reminds me of you
Your love, your soul, your trace

Is it true its over?
The love is evanescent tonight
As I hold your thoughts
In my surreptitious gaze
I feel assured
I find in me, renewed light

You might pity my existence
You might judge my hope forlorn
But you are not aware
Of the frozen fire
That my heart has for long
Now borne

It is the frozen fire
That has awoken
To give me life tonight
It is this fire
That exhorts me
For a renewed fight

The light from the fire
Will illuminate my life again
In its warm flame
I would search
For the remnants of my self again

It is this fire
Which would blow
The tide of wind in my favour
The fire would be the anchor
Which would carry me
In life's endeavour!

The Non-Rondeau

The loneliness I feel
Is taking me over
It's empowering my senses
I feel lost forever

The sound I hear
Is not the chime from a church
The momentary happiness
Is not the end of my search

Is what I feel real
Or is it my hallucination
Is what I envisage
A threat or a call to variation
Why should thoughts be abrupt
And knowledge unanalytical
If thoughts turn erratic
Why label as fanatical

When time is axiomatic
Why take recourse to sounds prophetic
When the loneliness I feel
Takes me over
It empowers my senses
I feel lost forever!

Fear Of Pain

Pain, the fag end of sorrow
The beginning to the end
Of happiness
The prelude to joy

The unbearable sting
That surpasses
All emotions in the heart
The fear of pain
Grows, the lacuna
In the heart expands on

Observe them, the stars
That you view
With your eyes closed
And heart open
Let it fly away, the pain
That you feel
Along with your dreams
It too will be evanescent!

The Great Love Story

A love letter in the sand
Embedded in its glory
Unfurling each page
Unfurls the great love story

Words written with unruly fingers
Filling a blue-green sheet
Love that blossomed anew
With every passing heartbeat

Now the sheet lies tattered
The words wiped off by the flowing waves
Now the great love story
Lies quietly in their graves!

Always you...

The smile to conceal my pain
The tear to masquerade my strain
The sacrifice to remove my sorrow
The search for a better tomorrow
Is always yours

The sympathy to cover my defeat
The encomium on reaching a new feat
The encouragement to touch the sky
The urge to reach so high
Is always yours

The love I forever treasure
The moments I forever cherish
The eyes filled with undying affection
The words showing a new direction
Is always yours

You are the person to guide me
To restore my faith in truth
To make me see the beauty of nature
You will be there in the future
You are always there
Always you..