Thursday, April 29, 2010

To Sleep

And now as I prepare to surrender to rest,

The shoots of dreams start to show,

The promise of color,

The assurance of wonder,

The hint of the other world.
Or simply a white lie, tempting nonetheless...
And like a painter ready with a view in sight
and an image in mind,

I sort my palette of thoughts
as my eyelids lay the first strokes
on the void of this black canvas of Sleep.

N.

(Footnote: I don't know why I put that in the form of a poem :)

Sunday, April 25, 2010

Slack

Downside of staying ahead of your years is that when the years catch up, which they do anyway, you've already exhausted the charm for the experiences they're supposed to bring with them. They are not "new" to you anymore. And you don't have anything else to look forward to because for you that'll also be "old". Some kind of a dead end...

Friday, April 16, 2010

Father and Son

This mere one day gap between these two birthdays is a symbol of 'closeness' between these two people. However, this slight gap can also be a symbol of the 'thin line' which seems enough to put them on opposite sides. But then, they won't quarrel or go to war. Turns out the thin line is a mirror and they both see themselves in each other.

Wednesday, April 14, 2010

Place to be

There are few places quite as wonderful to be as the thoughts of a woman. And there are few things quite as gratifying as knowing that you have been there in her lonely leisurely moments.

Thursday, April 8, 2010

Call

...The water in that puddle is merely a few drops that the wind plucked from my waves. Raise your head and look ahead. The sunrises and sunsets on my horizon are still there as they had been always...and as beautiful.

...

I'm not the water that fills the intermittent puddles on a road called your time.

Tuesday, April 6, 2010

Taking a fool to paradise

You invite a fool to paradise and he'll get busy packing and eventually carrying his earthly crap along. But who invites a fool to paradise? Oh...of course.