Celebration

I come back to you

Time and again

Searching for answers

Sorting out puzzles of life,

Pouring them all out

Into your womb,

Arranging those many fears and hopes

Into meaningless banters

Silently looking to find sense.

I find solace

Cuddling in your warmth and wisdom.

Those cathartic outpours

Magically unraveling solutions

Of the many maladies of life.

In your companionship

I decipher the meaning of this existence

And its contents.

Love, fear, hope, loss - 

They all seem more clear, much real!

Myself I find,

In your many crevices

Those borne in some heart, Those bloomed in some mind

Surprisingly giving form to my own emotion

As if, you have a mystic power

Of reading my thoughts.

Oh my mighty Verse

In your grace do I bask

Savoring you in a poet's voice

Or by feigning my own mediocrity into word heaps

And naming it a Poem.

pic credit - Chandra Elango

Appearance

Peel it off, the skin deep gloss
Cause beauty isn't the gift wrap!
It is what lies beneath the shell.
It reveals itself - slowly and not always.
Unless, the eyes delve past the obvious.
Look through the surface,
Barge into the unexplored spaces
Beyond the shallowness.
Those treasures elude the legible lines -
Bring that vision into focus
Rotate the lens, adjust the axis
Let reverence of the mind meet the oblivious.
And you just might see a flash
Of the slow revelation,
If you tune in to the vibration of the truth
Penetrating all visible allures
Taking your breath away!


Pic credit - Dhiren Shah