Falling in love
is like a magical rise,
The bored monotony of life
lies scattered on the ground,
Angels and fairies sing for you,
You’re the prince of your airy kingdom,
But we can’t float forever,
Earthbound we are,
That’s life,
Falling from love is hard,
Becoming ordinary again is painful,
Losing the kingdom hurts,
Being a commoner again pinches,
Then we fight
to retake the kingdom,
Again we fall in love
and float.
It’s unclear whether we're
more addicted to rise or fall.
The sun, moon, stars, dew, flowers, rivers,
It’s a miracle unfolding every moment,
The thing that we call as a miracle
is just a tiny snap-shot of the Miracle,
Just a little framed reality
viewed in abstract;
delinked from the bigger chain,
put on the frame
and termed as a miracle,
But it’s just a mere grain of salt
in the sea of the ultimate reality,
It’s just human to try to
define the undefinable;
to try to know the unknowable,
The fact is, we just take a few drops of water
in our palm and see our stars in it
and call it a miracle,
But you are the miracle,
Everything and everyone is miracle.
The lion fattens itself
by eating the parts in others,
The net of fear, vanity, hate, jealousy
catches the prey,
He is the ruler,
The followers are the prey,--
the loyalists,
They get addicted to
the pleasure of self-laceration,
They cut down those parts of theirs
which annoy or displease him,
They allow the flesh
of their soul to be eaten,
They turn lean hounds themselves,
Grow sharp fangs of jingoism,
Get trim starved bellies,
Then they hunt themselves
to further fatten the king.
We are like books,
Our appearance, identity, presentation
are like a book cover,
It’s to attract
and be sold well,
The glittering cover and catchy title
to enhance valuation and price.
Unique covers to create curiosity
in the reader’s mind and heart,
Showcased, we are then purchased,
But when the covers flip open,
pages unfold,
our lines read,
Alas, the story
that promised something different
turns out to be the same,
The same old, stale story,
written and phrased differently,
The same plot retold
with the same characters
named differently,
The same wine
in a different bottle.
