In love

When I was in love I knew no limit

There was joy in the air

Things were cute back then

Her shouting were like a song

No one bothered to listen except me

Her open lips demand to be seal-kissed

I struggled to resist myself

Her laughter lit up the evening

Wherever she went I followed

Together we jumped in rain

It was called dancing

Once upon a time, my friend

I was in love

The Carnage of Relationships

He sat there with

A bucket full of heart shape balloons

Puncturing one heart after another 

And letting the air leak

But it was not as fun and shocking

As the bursting sound

With stained hands and bloodied shirt

He left with empty bucket, fulfilled

On his way back

He met with an accident

A heart with spikes rolled in his direction 

How could this happen to him?  

He thought in ICU

As he hoped for a heart transplant

Nightmare of Today and Tomorrow

Green grass slowly turning into yellow thorns

Huts have been taken over by a concrete jungle

People drink whatever color of water they get

Tigers in white dress roam the city in search of lambs

Who survive the water and food scarcity

Vultures with microphones hover over the city

In search for fresh flesh to broadcast

I try hard

To dream of a different tomorrow

Yet I am haunted by the same nightmare

A Mistake of Newage Gopi

Alone in the crowd of the café, she

Smiles at his picture over and over again

Looks in the mirror of her phone and

Applies another coat of pomegranate red lipstick

As if the color will direct him to her

Silence around her is killing her patience

Her birdlike eyes dart toward the café doors

Nervously, she hopes for him to come early

Girls in café are guarding their lovers

From her probing eyes 

Looking at boy in the corner and

Comparing him with the picture

She got from the online chat

She gets up from her seat, pulls the door and

Sighs to commemorate her mistake

Of not sending her picture to him

When I will meet you again...

Life as they is a full circle and

I believe in this saying 100%

I don’t know when but I will meet you again

It may happen when you don’t want to meet me

Or maybe when I have lost interest in pursuing you

That day I will see you in arms of someone else and

On that day you will wonder about amicable separation 

And you cringe of not meeting me for the last time

I will not say anything but for fractions of seconds

We’ll exchange our gazes and pass each other like strangers

But the awkwardness of the surreptitious meeting

Will raise the questions and memories in your mind

And you will draw a bank

That person with you ask about your sudden silence

And all you will ask“What did you just say?”

And I will laugh to make your forget something once again

Tuition Fees of Ancient Times

Teachers in ancient times have

Knack of asking strange things as a tuition fee

It was not must but if not given by student

The fee remained a sort of burden or guilt

As a tuition fee, 

Young Rama and Lakshmana had to ward off demons

When their teacher, Sage Vishwamitra, was busy in his yagna

Utanka had to bring earrings from a female above ground and

Then from a male underground

It was the riddle Utanka solved when he lost a queen's earrings

and had to recover it from snake lord of netherland

Vishwamitra asked his pupil Galava to bring

800 horses: each with one black and one white ear

Dronacharaya had a plan before he arrived Hastinapur

When Kauravas and Pandavas were ready

He asked them to get his revenge from Draupada

And

We all know

What he demanded from the tribal lad, Ekalavya

Who claimed he learned archery from Drona:

Thumb of right hand

Shambuka's Caste Based Salvation

A brahmin’s son dies before 100 years

He complains to Rama about it and tells

That Shambuka, a Shudra, is doing penance

How could he do penance?

What else could be the reason?

Brahmin adds that if Sudra isn’t controlled

Something horrible can happen to the world

Do something!

Rama asks Shambuka to stop the penance

Shambuka denies saying that he is doing

To absolve his sins and to attain salvation

Rama kills him and solves his salvation problem

God is so merciful!