On bended knee is no way to be free - Eddie Vedder

On bended knee is no way to be free
Lifting up an empty cup, I ask silently
All my destinations will accept the one that's me
So I can breathe...

Circles they grow and they swallow people whole
Half their lives they say goodnight to wives they'll never know
A mind full of questions, and a teacher in my soul
And so it goes...

Don't come closer or I'll have to go
Holding me like gravity are places that pull
If ever there was someone to keep me at home
It would be you...

Everyone I come across, in cages they bought
They think of me and my wandering, but I'm never what they thought
I've got my indignation, but I'm pure in all my thoughts
I'm alive...

Wind in my hair, I feel part of everywhere
Underneath my being is a road that disappeared
Late at night I hear the trees, they're singing with the dead
Overhead...

Leave it to me as I find a way to be
Consider me a satellite, forever orbiting
I knew all the rules, but the rules did not know me

life's adrift

Branching out
Life finds a root
Laeves are falling off
To augur the autumn
Yes Autumn it is

Life's adrift
Trying to find it's root
In the sunshine and grow lush

Grey seems hounding
And haunting
I need freshness of the spring

Alive anew

It's beautiful
Colours come alive
Insanity, sanity
An endless debate

It's the little cheer
In the mundane zingsaw
Which fixes right
Across and downs

Withering willows
Comes abloom
In the autumn
Negating the rules of the game

Branching out
A world anew
Starting afresh
Like the morning dew

Beckons me yonder
A world unknown
A dreamy maze
A am walking in my sleep
To wake to the dream come alive

Dil-e-nadan na samajh paye
To mera kya kasoor
Teri justhu mein
Har waqt rehta hai maghroor

Dil ko ya armaan tha,
Jo kal tha woh aaj bhi moujood hota
Wo khayal, woh ehsaas
Kareeb mere wajood hota

Life is fair, even in despair
Love lives in my intimate imaginaire
Life's good, so I declare
What's destiny I stand and behold!

Layered dreams

Layer within layers 

feathered they are 

dreams and hopes 

Pleasure is seeking

Success is achieving 

Love is giving 

and life a journey

Stuccato, linear countours

getting lost in the nooks and shelves

while one rusts the other blossoms

and life becomes a glen of dreams

some broken while others awaiting the wings to fly

Leap of faith

How does it feel
to take a leap
and give it a go

How does it feel
to see an open sky
or vast expanse of a sea

How does it feel
when you stand on that threshold
or a road not taken before

How does it feel
to let go of an old nest
and to turn a new turf

Is that what they call
a leap of faith?

I bid adieu

Shutting myself to the past windows

I decide to move on

I close the door

To all that is left behind

I turn back

To take a last peek into

All that was

And all that was not

A catharsis

To bid a final adieu

To all that was never mine

Happiness in lease I lived

Castle that blew to the wind

And dreams buried alive

Words

Yarn of words
In strayed web that wove

Trail of words
Linger long after the silence

Glint of words
In the sparkle of your eyes

Murmurs I hear
Beyond the careless whispers

You are gone

You are gone...
And my world came crashing down

You were not there
to see the ashes of burnt dreams...

Love hurts and hurt it does

When you have given all to that one
who never realised what he lost...

That aches and writhes, only i feel
my heart cries, only i hear

A lone battle
i lost all, but nothing in you
for you were never there in this journey with me...

A blank canvas i want
to paint a dream again

Waking up by your side,
with your smell onto me,

Morning tells the tale
of the night before,
in a flashback as i recall

Wrinkled sheet, cigarette buds,
wine bottles, strewn robes
You and me, picture of love

As i turn around, i see you sleeping like a child
a little peek of ray playing on your face

I steal a moment,
from the life's closet

Running away into
the landscape beyond

Moments waft like smoke
from a long lit cigarrette
That remained clenched
between my fingers forever

Ah a long wait tis been
before i had a li'l steal from life

midnight meetings
frenzied moments

aah, it felt like love
an eternal bliss
that's all i would call it

sweet nothings
when even the silence spoke
there i was melting in his arms
a smile enough to tickle me pink

it snapped with just one gust
leaving me with memories galore
a lurking melancholy, in the fleeting glee
i wanted you forever
when you were mine only for the moment

i look out of the window and see a falling leaf
drifting with the wind
like a rudderless boat
that;s how i feel now
listless, drained, empty
painting a blank canvas
with the colors of pain

A whisper of the wind
takes me by awe

The expanse I experience
sitting by the sea

The dark sky aloft
tells me a story unknown

Life seems small
and spaces galore

A splash of dreams
of all I am
in a world I call my own

Surreal waxes real
life becomes life

I want to walk along the unknown
in a world of dreams

In the surreal silence of the tomb,
You seal my lips with a kiss

Like the ripple of the fountain yonder
I hear the tunes of my heart

It aches to have it forever
I wish the time froze there

Sitting on the bench
We hear the birds chirp

A prayer slips out of my lips
Wish you were mine

A walk in the dark alleys
A walk to remeber I recall

I live life in pieces
They call me their's
Who do I have to call Mine

Citadel of joy
I create

On the debris of pain
A lease of life
Like a bird
It flies, it soars
with limitless flight

Forget the sorrow
as it lies in peace
'neath the debris of pain

why did u go away
leaving me with an
endless wait

a dream i thought
had come to reality

has become a chase again

greens of life
laden with lush

mirth of life amidst
angst of existence

rivers of sorrow merging in
seas of happiness

i want to live like-i want to break loose
i want to lose myselfin the quest for life

Lives and moments...
Desires and memories....
A fleeting existence is all that I have.

I am left to wonder..
to piece together all that is mine...
and all that is yours.

To divide equally what we call ours.
Where do we go from this crossroad,which has n milestone.
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