Happy Teacher's Day (To Abuji & Mamma)

He taught me

How to be at peace with failure!

She taught me
How to be dissatisfied with success!

Today
Wisdom guides me
Simply
To be peacefully dissatisfied with life
And never stop...

Trust

She knew
He was lying
She also knew
She was lying too
To herself

It's easy to trust
When you know

Highest Art of Seduction

She left me
Alone
With her thoughts

Arresting Pain

I wish

I could take pain into custody
Interrogate it
Cross-examine it
Torture it
With your stories
Of strength
Of endurance
Of patience
And undying sense of humour
Till it gives up and agrees
To forget your name - forever

To be or not to be

At last
Love is left with
Only two choices
To be with you
Or not to be with you

One dangerously intimate
Other dangerously apart

Historicity of Our Love

She hides me
Like a sin
But preserves me
Like a mummy

The pyramid of our love
Is still lost
In the mist of history

Consummation

My poems can’t set things right

They can’t change your situation

Or make your problems disappear

As much as I want them to…

But I know

They cheer you up

When everything else fails

They bring smile to your face

Like nothing else

And twinkle hope back

Into your eyes

So let them do what they are meant to do

And let them do it forever