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More Than Meets The Eye

There is so much more than what meets the eye

One runs when they’ve learnt to fall

One smiles when they’ve learnt to cry

Yet, there is so much about triumph that beguiles the folks

That which shades your struggle 

As do the tallest of oaks

The darkling of the day and the rising of the sun

Every time, all the time

Are but the vestiges of a reminder that could evade none

That every ounce of light

Was born from taunting darkness

That every trouble gives an opportunity to harness

And know that the most dazzling glory

Is found relished by the bravest of hearts

And every struggling person in the story

Concludes with the brightest of sparks

Strum Of The Strings

There goes the melody

That tugs at the strings of hearts

Craves the companionship of nobody

A beckoning of the calm it imparts

With backs bent double over stress

And mind laden with worry

A note to elate from the distress

Disguised as melancholy’s place of bury

As the sweet tantalizing of the strum

Promises tunes soothing to the soul

No matter what tongue it comes from

So competent of making a part whole

An ocean of emotion you may feel

A thousand feelings to the forth it brings

To hear and to heal

There’s nothing you can’t express with the strum of the strings

Thanks To The Storm

It must be the storm nature chose to speak

That has blown the seed into my space

It’s only now I notice it, looking ever so meek

Yet writhing out of the soil as if armed with a mace

A tender green shoot of hope from strife

Among the foliage and debris that became the norm

Of what once was life

Thanks to the storm

And so I let it grow

As independent of my help as it sowed itself here

Seeking the elements only for the nourishment they bestow

Basking in the sunlight with the trickling water from the rain, will to live so sheer

And now it stands tall and proud

Telling me things with which I want to comply

Having defeated the forces of anguish that had it in shroud

Thanks to the storm that let its seed fly

As Time Went By

Five years it has been since we met

Five years that have passed by so quick

My friend and I, once a complete set

Alas, we have now drifted apart and distance between us a prick

Last memory I have of us is timeless

When we hunched over together, adoring the archaic watch

For all its sophistication had made it look priceless

Examined and turned the dials of our splendid catch

As time went by, five years it has been, and now we meet

We see each other and embrace

Something felt incongruous, something I couldn’t decipher in the time of a fleet

She looks exactly the same as she did on that day in that place

“Five years haven’t changed you a bit”, I say

Perplexity hints in her eyes

“Funny you count five hours as five years”, she quirks, plain as day

Bewilderment etches my face as I try to deliberate what this signifies

It dawns on me then

The archaic watch didn’t only show time after all

That day we turned the dials again and again

And now, it is in time that she and I haul

Reflection

As the pick up truck trod over the uneven gravel

It grumbled and rumbled becoming as restless as we felt

For it has been a long time and familiarity still hasn’t unraveled

It must be beginning to lose its patience as do we strapped in the seatbelt

The directions weren’t complicated 

The place, the paths and the people were

The map said take a left in 200 meters as we drove with breath so bated

But alas, two miles we go and no sign of left, the failure a major deter

We did come here as children fascinated more with the country locale

Than the turns our aunt took when she drove us here about the houses lined like dominoes 

Taking in the neighborhood and the succinct reflection of the brimming canal

Dreaming of the next visit as one came to close

But now with a license to drive

When we thought we missed drowning in the brimming reflection of the canal like a warning

Little did we know we were in for a ride where we wouldn’t thrive

In a mirror dimension, an alternate world’s dawning

So It Went

The sun shone its fiercest rays on her skin

Bit by bit she fashioned her castle, unleashing the imagination within

In the tropical heat and its painful glow

Rhythmic to the waves crashing high and low

She made a citadel raise out of the shore as majestic as she could

And headed over for more sand to build her world as she said she would

When a huge tide bellowed over it, backstabbing and cruel

Leaving a heap of remains, bringing her castle down to its last jewel

Though let down initially, the crash only strengthened her resolve

To build back what she’d made and lost in the dissolve

Bit by bit she rebuilt, now with ace and experience to embrown

Alas, the next big wave, mighty and merciless brought it down

And so it went, she ploughed on with erecting her structure

Undeterred and dedicated to every single fracture

The sea waves hitting her with the impermanence of life

And she replied with her human tenacity so rife