TODAY ONCE MORE

In case you forgot how to smile;

Even then, for a tender while,

Leave behind your personal score

And live the moment – today once more.

If your eyes, for years, have remained dry

And yet your heart, like a gray sky,

Wants to burst into a heavy downpour;

Let it rain – today once more.

If you slept at nights without the gleam

Of starlit wonders or moonbeam;

Today, in the twilight, before the Sunset,

Allow yourself to have one more dream.

If what was to be said, has remained untold;

Before the arrival of winter’s cold,

Let your heart have its say

Before the silence – once more today.

None can presume what the future holds

Or how the enigma called tomorrow unfolds;

“Right now”, is all we have, to explore

Our oblivious selves – today once more.

ABOUT US

You pointed towards me your knife of vengeance

And stabbed me in the back again and again;

You tried to reward me the defeat of solitude;

You tried your best- but perhaps in vain!

Why blame a cactus for its merciless thorns

As it makes our hands bleed as we touch;

When the aesthetic rose can make us bleed

Inside our very hearts just as much?

My futile whispers, all meaningless tears

Couldn’t make it past your sound-proof ears;

My emotion is like a rusted dart;

Your metal mind it couldn’t pierce.

Some use the stones to build a God;

You used the same to build your heart;

You hurled them one by one at me

To tear my holy feelings apart.

Can you put some light in your bleak mind

And make yourself think a bit:

Didn’t you lose a bit to yourself

By trying to make me taste defeat?