Impermanence

Is there anything 

That does matter

If everything here

Is just temporary

People come and go

Relationships change

Even blood ties break

Upon personal strains

The hardest rocks break

Continents shift away

Human mind and body

With time will change

Aren't we all searching

Something permanent

Be it a house, a career

Or just perfect soulmate

But the secret is hidden

That its impermanence

Those small moments

That can fill ourselves

Conversation

I got too bent and tired
Decided to confront life
Full of frustration n fury
I finally asked life, 'Why?'

Life first tried to test
My failing patience
But my nerves snapped
I came up to fight my life

But it didn't take long to find 
I was boxing my own shadow
Exhausted, bruised I gave up
And my shadow took over me

People not used to darkness
Won't be able to understand
Once black ink drips on you
It dyes the soul purely dark

Sinking deeper and deeper down
I saw your shadow face to face
You had refused to say goodbye
And my shadow too got trapped

But morning light did come
Suddenly I awakened from it
Shivering from the memory
I looked up and asked, 'Why?'

Again life remained silent
Some mysteries are better
Unanswered, because they
Help you fight to find life

It's an open conversation
I'm still having with life
My questions answered
In utter complete silence

Words unsaid

Sometimes words are better unsaid
Meaning is often lost in translation
Unsaid words have benefit of doubt
Doubts are way better than conflicts

What did I ever attain by telling you
That I loved you, hoped commitment
Your precious companionship reduced
Many years of bitter quarrel continued

But at least we got to know each other
Masks got removed and souls exposed
I showed my bitter side, yet thankfully
You were able to maintain your grace

I sometimes wonder how it'd been else
If I kept mum that night, instead the urge
To break the turmoil breaking me within
Maybe I'd seen more smiles than disdain

How'd it have been if I had just written a letter
Made it a paper boat, floated it on Powai lake?
Few minutes later it'd have soaked and drowned
Ink in my mad lines would've blot into the water

Lines and words

There are lines and words

So many colours, textures

But there's a world behind

The forms and shapes too

There are friends and foes

Companions, togetherness

But there's a world behind

These bonds and ties too

There are places and people

So many journeys and stories

But there a world behind all

Beckoning us back there too

Trust

In this world that we live
Does trust make any sense
Because is there anyone
Who is really truthful?

We are all waging personal wars
Companions few and far between
Where you have the most who lied
To you to save their own territory

And you have a world of walls
But aren't they better than having
Companions who lied or hid truth
And I was always so blind to trust

Travelers

We are all just travelers

Through time and space

Where did it all begin?

Will we ever find an end?

Nothing sits still

Nobody really waits

Restless to move

But nothing to gain

Its strange isn't it?

Sit still, doubts arise

But in breathless lives

Calmness arrives

In somebody's life

Many came, many left

Another just knew just one

But presence all pervades

Memories

Memories are unreliable

Just like fading dreams

From but distant to truth

Specially thinking of you

Becomes such a smudge

Entangled places personas

Sari you wore at college fest

Bus stop missed to meet you

Your school notebook I lost

Laptop charger I forgot at cafe

Your candy fossilized in fridge

The shirt you gifted me once

Your hand I held under waterfall

You fell asleep on my shoulder

The song I wrote missing you

Poster of your favorite artist

That adorns my living room

It's all false, nothing is true

Because you then said 

I meant nothing to you

But for me they remain