Tides

You then left
Too suddenly
From my life
Without trace

I wasn't even
Informed well
You moved on
Before I knew

It's fine actually
Was meant to be
Problem was the
Time lapse there

I was too quick
To make a move
You were faster
Leave and let go

Now that it ended
There's eternity of
Time between us
The tides can ebb

Love

When you confess

You love someone

Its more a promise

Than any statement

The promise of love

Is just commitment

I made my promise

But it wasn't backed

One can't clap with

Just one hand really

One-sided romance

Thus totally doomed

The higher climbed

Harder falling down

My doom was death

Somehow I survived

Coming from the dead

One's attitude changes

Life is too precious for

Anything not genuine

Hence its essential to

Reduce attachments

And find inner peace

Before it's all too late

Dawn

Someone pointed we lacked

Any spark to ignite romance

It got me angry not because

It might be wrong, actually

It might be completely true

That my feelings were selfish

Since I never cared what you

Felt for me in the first place

Friendly affection was only

What we shared between us

Whatever I did had agenda

To me you were a conquest

From a dear friend I became

Lots trouble, embarrassment

I pushed to point of no return

And strangely enough, all of it

Seems true, I've got no defense

Everything I'd felt or I did was

Completely wrong, and fading

Away is right thing to do now

Then do I plead guilty?

No absolutely I am not

Something in me says

My feelings were true

And my actions right

In the larger scheme of things

This is what was meant to be

The beautiful moments for me

To always cherish and life will

Go on and soon there'll be dawn

Rust

I opened my guitar case
After months of neglect
The guitar was the same
Except mild coat of rust

Strings my fingers slid
Now didn't sound sharp
Guitar felt just the same
Except mild coat of rust

I composed a new song
As melancholy as I could
It still sounded the same
Except mild coat of rust

Its been eternity of silence
But now calmness prevails
I remained quite the same
Except a mild coat of rust

Adios

I was finally able
To pack my bags
Reached station
Few hours early

The train is yet to
Come to platform
I barely managed
To find a seat here

Mumbai station is
Brimming crowd
The night before
I packed, cleaned 

Last I was leaving
Empty hostel room
Where I spend days
Gazing the window

Light of early dawn
Window lit the room
It'll be mine no more
Someone else to fill

You gave me a hasty
Goodbye, brought a
Charger I left at class
And a bronze elephant

Now at the station
Loudspeaker said
My train at platform
I tugged my rucksack

Was there anything
I was leaving behind
Only half of my heart
For you to keep safe

The whistle blows
The train moves
I take a last look
Adios my Mumbai

I'm sorry

I'm sorry I've been
So insane and lost
When you were there
I got so overwhelmed
And when you had left
I kept ranting so much

I'm sorry but now
No matter how much
I try to grasp feelings
There's really not much
I can keep holding on
Except some moments

I'm sorry but its time
The waves must wash
Our footprints on sand
And nothing will remain
Somewhere far far away
Wish you find happiness

Perfect

Actually it's quite hard
To be perfect anywhere
Even cooking a perfect
Omelet takes a lot care

People take so many years
To perfect one unique style
Years of toil to finally find
A career truly worthwhile

I too perfected something
Of becoming totally futile
The perfect gamma male
A self-sustaining agony

Grunge become thy name
Poetry of madness and loss
Dark humor none can match
Abstraction to escape reality

Like a star which didn't
Explode to a supernova
But sunk in within itself
A perfect dark black hole

Whenever there's perfection
There's scope for singularity
That way I'm quite fortunate
There's seed for a final unity