After my death, none my wrongs memorize

Now she is all blubberMore like rubberShe has no waist, is a barrel of fat

Scarring my face, the spikesPricked deep, lettingA stream of blood downBut,Like a gush of summer rainIt cooled my smouldering spiritsSlumbered my frayed nervesAnd loosened my taut muscles!

Belly like a balloon,Manner like a buffoon,No wonder, all stand and frown

And bustling with people in hundreds streaming inThe young and the old clad in festal attireWith fire in their hearts and festive sheen in their eyesNot driven by piety, but mostly to enjoy the fanfareFestoons decorated the trees that lined the compoundColorful lamps were blinking everywhereSacred bells kept chiming intermittentAt the auspicious hour, as devotional…

With every passing moment, it becomes a tumultuous roarAnd falls in my ears loud and clear“I want Thee, My God and My LordI want none but Thee”Enter the soundlessness of my beingTransmute my silence into sheer joyPlay on my tight strung sitar stringsAnd fill the eerie silence with euphonic melodyBe with me, not before or…

The flowers that wither after feasting the eyeThey obliquely announce, life is a fleeting dreamLove once flourished may fade and dieTrees towering high may fall and rotRivers that swell can dry up onceThe same is true of our life on earthAt times we soar on wings of joyAt times we drown and are deep in…