Mar 21, 2014

Strangers in the Night


It was fate that that brought us strangers together,
Chance perhaps made us to look into each others' eyes,
Attraction drew us close,
While love sealed the bond.

They say that love makes the world go round
Yes indeed we said
And became each other's world.

The Sun shone on us,
The Moon beamed at us,
The Breeze caressed us softly,
As we walked hand in hand.
Life never seemed so beautiful,
So rich in its fullest glory.

But someone somewhere kindly smiled...

Now we are just two strangers staying together
made apart by the longest bridge of all
Silence....
The silence has frozen our hearts....

Our hearts still keep beating,
But not for each other
Like chimes of the old grandfather clock
And wither away the time.

We have nothing to say to each other now,
Lest the forceful conversations at the dinner table
As we talk about mundane issues like office, children and the maid
It has become less boring, but more tiring.

We never talk about us,
Nor of our celebrated love gone sour
'Coz like our gross salaries minus tax,
Our love has been deducted at the source.

I amuse my Muse

I am not a poet. Let me emphasise that once again. I admire poetry...but never assume or delude myself to be one. But in the last one month or so, I am going through a phase after many years, which has suddenly opened a flood gate and lines and images are running through my mind like wild horses. So finally decided to pen down the thoughts in the exact way as they had occurred. 


I was searching for my muse in you,
But you laughed it off cruelly and left me marooned
On an island with just me and reality as my sole company...

It put across a mirror in front of my face,
Looking inside, I saw death instead
I screamed in fear and the mirror cracked into several pieces
In those pieces I found back my muse once again...



P.S. Name of the poem plagiarised from someone else.