Wednesday, March 3, 2010

The Drift

…troubled as he was, he had a finicky way of choosing things. And that’s exactly what he did. He wanted a way of death, a peculiar way of death for himself. He had eliminated hanging, shooting and death by poison. He knew he did not invent anything but was proud of his selection. He was standing on the top of the tallest building in the city. He thought of cherishing the moments he would fall down. Wind smashing his watery eyes as gravity does the work free of cost, he relived his fall many times before. This-he decided was the last time.

He started all over again. He did the math- the height of the building was around 300 meters and assuming free fall it would take around 7 to 8 seconds to reach the bottom. That was sufficient. The first second was about noticing the bright side of the sun. The skyline did much to prevent those shining red rays to strike bottom. The reflection of those rays on the beautiful glass buildings scattering into many pieces and blinding the darkness looked pretty. Then was the transition just a second later when the rays would give way to the cold eclipsed image on those glasses. He noticed his fall in the form of image and smiled. He was happy that he chose the right buildings. Mirror glasses he just loved at that moment. He knew time was the key. So he looked down to face the storm on his face which made his eyes watery in a fraction of a second and he felt the tear roll back to his hair. The chill made him shiver for what would be the last time. He noticed innocence on the streets growing bigger as he hurriedly floored down. Men and their inventions he liked. It got chiller and he felt that. He proudly found a way to cure his acrophobic nature. He glanced at the colors of life in those mirrored glass buildings, the cemented pathway, yellow taxis, the people in ties, the skater- bois and the subway signs. He knew it was time. He closed his eyes, wore the common smile and waited for the thud.

Sunday, January 10, 2010

FILTHY

I

Avatars of hypocrisy

And corrupted souls

Buildings and signage

Hurling abuses

And disrupting the axioms

Of civilization

The white collars

And suits and ties

In their shallow boots

Sculpting a false reality

And waiting for unimaginable

Shadow to be unveiled

The children of society

Molded in F tv clothes

And banging to the

Dead music without

Knowing the pretence,

Leave alone the meaning

II

For it’s not guns but money

Not mortars but politics

Not grenades but education

And today’s amended ethos

From mothers to daughters

And from fathers to sons

The never ending distance

Between loved ones

And the new god sitting

On the leather couch

Watching dead commercials

And exploiting humanity

And industries and corporates

Appeasing through

Visual obscenities and

Warming the air we breathe

And the water we drink

And the leaders of men

With no resolution

Sit to sort the global problems

With red & white wines

And bureaucracy making

Policy

For the man on the

Street with a poor

Wife and a poor kid

Begging for mercy from

Skeletons inside their

Mercedes

Reading the daily

And concerned about

Poverty

All that is filthy

Thursday, November 12, 2009

The Departure

I

Bare feet, on dirty floor
One eye blind
Half past score

Amazed
By the quick passing
Of similar red brick houses

Coming back
To reality
With raised brows

A flood of darkness
In their eyes
And lips slightly apart

Vision of mortality
And glaring zero
In modest eyes

Emotions
By-product of imagination
And childish dreams


II

And we sing
And we dance
And make merry in the sun

While they cry
And mourn
For their dead son

We play games
They play themselves
Out

Nothing known
About their
Whereabouts.

III

So bury them
By my side
For he is my brother

As we shared
The same pain
In glorious days and nights

While you watch
In your exuberance
The departure of one more soul

Sunday, November 1, 2009

Death I

A transcendental sleep
So sound
And no dreams
And no lines on the forehead
With a mystic smile
A larceny unveiled
Forever.

The departed,
The sanitized,
The bleached,
Purged
Again like a new born.

No ties
No bonds
Yet the innocence
And a wish
To fall back
A little
Reorienting the thoughts
And mistakes in the past
Undone
All
But one.


A praise undone
A hymn unsung
A prayer unspoken
A wish unfulfilled
A promise un-kept
A book unread
A dream undreamt
A bond unknown
A song unwritten.