Dead Leaves

Dead leaves

Lying on the ground

Drying and rotting,

No nurture, nor care,

In utter despair

Sans strength to move:

A gentle breeze

A gust of life

Instant awakening

Breath blown back from nowhere

A stirring, a fluttering,

Lo! death departs!

A forest fire

Rapid and wild

Blazing its fiery trail,

Melting and burning

Casting out dross,

A golden heart remains.

Goodbye to Love

No, not a sunset:

Eclipse shadows light.

Untimely darkness descends;

Awake or asleep? Demented soul

Poised on edifice; a moment, a blast,

Or was it a crash? Thunderous quaking

Yet annihilation aborted.

Groping blindly through Hell

A survivor, more dead than those killed,

Living in nightmarish dusk.

Andromeda, the accursed, chained to life

On barren mountaintop.

The Seeking

Long have you run, through sun and hail

To catch elusive stars;

In vain have you combed ocean beds

To find your golden bar;

Alas! your soul you lost in the race,

Pawned your heart for a dream,

Your world now darkens, sunset is nigh

It's time to sail upstream.

Seek no more in yon world without

your treasure you'll find in you,

Come home Dear One, come home once more,

In joy your life renew.

Our Days

Our morrows are shrouds,

What lies beyond we know not;

Sunshine face of happy days

Or some faceless clouds.

Our yesterdays are graves,

In them no life breathes,

Fight, or cry, or greet with smile

Nothing can them save.

Our today we will win,

Make it a perfect round,

Work and play and laugh and sing

Till our day is done.

Golden Days

I thought your paths ran through my yard,

You'd knock each time you passed,

I thought your heartbeats echoed mine,

My absence left you lost;

In your hearts I lived in joy,

In your smiles I laughed,

My days were flavoured with your words,

Oh! happy were those ploys!

Those days pass away with time

Those days dissolve, like ghosts,

Yet in clouds their shadow lives

Those days I love the most.

Lost Soul

My tears made your heart bleed-

Not so long ago.

With you my fears found peace-

And I could let them go.

How did those days change?

I can not understand,

Yet, today we two live

In very different lands.

The same sky spreads o'er head

Where shelter we could find,

But it is so o'ercast

We see two different lines.

The same breeze kisses us,

In whispers all around,

But somewhere we have lost

The love that we had found.

Oh now we are apart

On our lonely isles,

No more songs we sing,

Our lips no longer smile.

Two Lives Two Soul

Hot coffee and orange juice,

A piece of toast,

A daily drive downtown.

Words exchanged, and smiles-

Meaningless mundane,

No fire, no blaze,

My dead soul,

Living a deathly triviality:

Every minute, every hour

A tedious eternity.

Red roses with candles

Rainbows in sky,

Spirit of adventure

Never say die.

Limitless dreaming

Reaching for the moon,

A soul reawakened

Flooded with light

In every second

Touching the infinite.