Prisoner

He watches out the bars as two of the inmates leaveFreedom is theirsTheirs is the reliefso powerful that even he can feelfor just a moment what they feelAs he prays before God for releaseSweet releaseIn any form, anyhow, pleaseWhen will it be time?He wonders what was the faultwhat the crimeMercy, mercy, mercy, pleaseCruel bondage, this,…

Words of a Melting Candle…

I woke from a heavy slumber upon being lit again. A mere stub now… That stature and pride of youth gone, but leaving behind like molten wax trickling down my wintry body, the illumination of wisdom that comes with time and a lifetime of service. Would you like to hear a dying light’s flickering words…

TAJ MAHAL

Who says you celebrate love when you behold this one of the seven wonders of the worldWho says it has left a mark of hope for loversand concluded that love indeed is immortalTake off your rose hued glasses, look closeIt weeps for lost love and mourns lost hopeIt warns all lovers 'gainst attachment's woes"Till death…

Death

On a dark twilight, over the hills for the life of me, in fear and vain, I fled as Death rode behind in a suit of armour - then beat me, and slayed me dead. He marched away as, renewed, I did rewake to the sounds of the hoofbeats of the mare and kneeling, did…

INDIFFERENCE

A certain numbness, a certain death, has always resided within my soul, and sometimes I can feel its heart beating… feel the numbness, hear death beat with a life of its own- a certain morose, yet regenerative kind of life- lying so close beside the fresh, vivacious, carefree part of me, that to smother one,…