A past is lost!

Present surged ahead to meet janus-faced future. Star of yesterday lost its lustre in the dead of midnight.

Yesterday is no more! One more day has gone by!! It is time for celebration.

A past is pronounced dead, amidst deafening sound of crackers. A past is laid to rest in the depths of darkness.
It is buried ceremoniously in golden coffin

It is time for change. It is time for new values. It is time for new dreams, enticing new world of dreams

A new star shines up in the sky. A bright new day is born. A day of new dreams is singing hymn of new star

Has old past lost out to a young future, a dream of tomorrow? ... or is it just another cycle of changes?

An ocean, in a soliloquy!

I woke up as a new ray of hope caressed me all over. I saw a new star rising up in my sky, bright and smiling. Winds of change blew across my world. Waves of passion rose up seeking to touch the heaven above, eventually crashing painfully into myself.

My joy knew no bounds, blushing in my innocence, as star of dream came closer. Alas! My dream left my world, as I streched my hands into charm my dream in a warm embrance, and a gloom of darkness filled my world. My heart sank to depths unknown. I found a new serene world below, free from undercurrents of deceit and waves of tempest crashing into tears. As I slept in my new world of tranquil, a new dream was rising up in heavens above

Get up, man, and get moving!

Tears gushed down aplenty
In chilling dark night bygone
Washing the dead of past away
Into deep blue dungeons yonder

Wake up, now, from slumber
Roaring storm of death is all gone
Heaven above lighting your way
Get up, man, and get moving

Tomorrow is another day
Move on, and make it your day
Golden star rising up your sky
A new ray of hope on your way

It is you, my dear!

Yet another day born
In a golden shadow of divine charm
The day was young
As I walked in the garden of heaven

Stretch of a hand away
I saw a sweet little rose, all smiles
A little rose of my dreams
Budding into a new life

I went close, and
Streched my hand in care
I bled, hurt me hard
I saw thorns all around

I saw my little rose
Dancing in gentle breeze
Blushing in innocence
Amidst a world of thorns

I streched my hands
I picked my little rose,
I brought home my dream
Sweet, young and tender

I kept my dream
With my God, at his feet
I prayed for a new life
A new life for my dream

Time went on
I saw my rose dying
I cried helpless, God
Why you did this to me

I heard a voice
A voice loud and clear
A voice from within
A voice of true love

I made rose, my son
For you to see and enjoy
It's life, my dear
Don't pluck and destroy

Learning to live wiser!

I learned about force of gravity!

I also learned that knowledge in itself does not make you wiser; to be wiser, knowledge must be enriched by experience!

I longed for experience, and I had a free fall!

Then, I truly experienced force of gravity, and I became wiser.

I learned to live being less wiser!!

Being the son of Dharma!

Did you say, world hails me as a son of dharma? Did you say, world looks forward to me as righteousness personified?

Title is bestowed on me by the destiny, and not my claim!

Title weighs heavy on me as I struggle hard to live by wisdom of practical living, yet living a life of values, in a unique ashwamedha of my own.

It is not a title that I sought, nor I am seeking it now. I have no claims of being son of righteousness.

I am no god, I have no power of god. I am a simple man, acutely aware of my limitations

It is just that I try to be on the side of dharma. I do so because my conscience directs me to.

I seek the truth relentlessly, desperately. I seek the truth as my restless mind seeks.

I know, I am not good at playing dice but I played as the time played dice with me. I lost the gamble, and I lost all that I held dear to me.

Perhaps, that is destined. May be, long years of adversity and oblivion was destined. How else shall I describe the turn of events?

All that I was left with was my heart, my bleeding heart. I gambled as the game was played on. I saw my heart, all alone wailing as it was being stripped off its pride and dignity.

Advocates of social and human values stood as a mute witness to the disaster being unfolded.

Tell me, please, my mother. Tell me, please, my father. Tell me, please, my Gurus. Where did you vanish, leaving me alone? Why did I lose you on the other side of wall? You told me that dharma wins! You told me that truth alone wins!

Did you teach me wrong, or did I learn it wrong? or is it just a game of great illusion?

Mangalaasamsakal!

I wrote this couplet in Malayalam years back

Occasion was birthday one of my best friends. I had selected a greeting card to send him. The card carried a picture of a beautiful flower basket; a red rose standing out from rest of flowers in the basket

Teri Yadein!

I wrote this couplet in Hindi years back

It was written when I was alone first time after my marriage, when my wife had to go back to her home first time.

You are my heart!

Break my thoughts, if you must
It makes me wiser
Break my way, if you must
It makes me stronger
But don't ever break my heart
'coz you are my heart

Hope of a bright new day!

A past is laid to rest in archives
Leaving me all alone, all on my own
I searched for Me in my solitude
I searched for Me that I lost a long ago

Dark clouds thundered in my dreams
Wild storms gushed through my heart
Heaven broke down into tears
As Waves of pain hit my shore

Far away, I saw your smile
I saw a new ray of hope
It was a hope of a new dawn
A bright, new day is born

Fear vs Respect

Fear breaks; Respect mends.
Fear hurts; Respect heals.
Fear suffocates; Respect motivates.
Fear arrests; Respect enables.

A land blessed by God

God's own country!
A land blessed by God
Not yet ruined completely by man.

A land,
Where innocence still permeates the country side,
Where wounds of past are washed clean by perennial rains,
Where tears from depth of sea meets heights
Where dreams of fertile life sprouts, with each rain dropp falling,
Where benevolent God showers blessings from clouds above,
Where blessings from heavens above nourish every inch of land

A new day; a new dream, a whole new world

I was sitting alone, all alone, with my eyes lost into vast horizon. Waves of passion was lashing my feet in gentle touch, and day was blushing under care and caress.

Far, far away, I saw sun walking alone into depths of cold darkness. Before I knew, I lost it into oblivion and it was dark all around. I lost myself into shrieking darkness

Then, I saw a ray of hope as you winked at me from above. I was relaxed, retiring into a quiet sleep.

When I woke after a peaceful sleep, the ray of hope thay you showed me was much brighter.

It was birth of a new day; a new dream, a whole new world

Colors of my small world!

My mind was quiet
Time stood still
I was alone in my small world
I longed for a change

I saw you, I saw me
I saw the world in me
I saw the world in prism of my mind
I longed for a rainbow

Winds of change blew
Clouds filled my sky
Thunder and lighting made my day
World shook in pain

My heart broke
Tears dropped down my eyes
I made a kaleidoscope with my broken heart
I saw a rainbow

An old farewell note

Firm stands ‘today’, the moment of truth
Basking in the glory of the yesterday
Lo! beckons the future, excitements set forth
It is time for me to move on, I say!

Shall stay with me, for ever and ever
Some ‘Rational’ thoughts, so fresh as ever
The joy of sharing, and caring for another
The fun of learning, and working together

It hurts to say ‘bye’, dear ‘Rational’
Oh! my friends, it pains to bid ‘farewell’
We shall meet again in the world, so small
We shall hold together, with a heart no small

Let me be gone now, for a while
To join our hands again, in a little while
For some purpose, quite worthwhile
To help our customers, with a sweet smile

This was a farewell note to an organization called Rational Software Corporation that I worked for. IBM acquired Rational Software Corporation and it has become IBM Rational Software group now. I continue to work with Rational Software products in my consulting work as an a consultant associated with Astra Infotech Private Limited, a partner of IBM, helping customer adopt and leverage these products in their day to day work environment

Life is a roller coaster ride

Life is a roller coaster ride
or game of Jekkel and Hyde
Slows at times, speeds at times
Scares at times, thrills at times

Don’t close your eyes, and be lost
Don’t hang on to pangs of past
It’s gonna pain, till game last
Life goes on, and goes so fast

Don’t fret and frown, Ride is short one
It is full of fun, Don’t miss any one
Laugh and ride, or cry and hide
A few moments, and it is gone

Knowing the unknowable

What is truly me does not change,
What changes is not me
What is truly mine is never lost
What was lost was never mine

I seek thee in me
I seek me in thee
Now I see, now I don’t
I know but I know not

That is me!

You tell me a man does not cry
You tell me a man does not cheat
You tell me a man does not fall

Why give me tears if I should not cry
Why break my heart if I should not weep
Why agony, Why pain, Why bruises

Don't chain me with your rules
I break free of your endless rules
'coz I care for you but not your rules

I cry when it hurts hard
I cry when I see you cry
My heart breaks when I see your pain

I laugh when I am happy
I laugh when you laugh at me
I laugh at me, at my joke

I laugh at me for being a joke
A joke, not yet learned the art of living
A joke, not yet learned the art of deceiving

I laugh at my joke
A joke, that I made of the world
A joke, that I made myself to be

I cry because I am a man
I smile because I am a man
'coz I am what I am

I care not for name
I care not for fame
'coz it's all but a game