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

Finding you

Many seasons have passed
Earth and sky changed hue
But my story remains same
Is it destiny or coincidence?

There comes a moment
I'm breaking in turmoil
Standing at the edge of
The cliff and slipping...

Moments from being
Wiped out for eternity
And then suddenly you
Arrive from nowhere

I know thy presence
As bees know nectar
And I pull myself up
From the jagged edge

But a strange flower
You are truly indeed
Fragrance and grace
But never to be found

By me I mean
Of course your
Countless lovers
Block your way

I realize this as soon 
As I dust off my rags
I'm not fit to meet you
Cliff too is off bounds

Anyone who crossed
The cliff edge knows
One can't edge it again
It is just way too lame

But your scent put me
Back on the track for
A higher cliff to jump
A winding road ahead

I know

It's not that I don't know
The truth that was hidden
But I lied and pretended
Because I waited for you

But now that facts are out
No lies are left to hold on
I can let go and choose
Finally find my true self

Of course it's better this way
Things are slowly sorting out
The change within is so abrupt
But a quantum leap is needed

Being a lone pair electron
Makes it so much easier
The unbalanced charge
Shifts in state a lot easily

Saying Goodbye

It's such a relief
To say goodbye
To all that's there

A past I don't relate
Present hard to grasp
And a future so dark

The bruises have bled
Blood clotted to black
Red is now no more

Cold and blue creeps
Like the night ocean
Engulfs what remains

Not that it worries me
Phases in life come go
Now change permanent

I swam way too long
In the shallow waters
Its time to dive in deep