Our Life could be full of music...

... A continuous background score to the story of our lives together.

A lyrical alarm to awaken us from a night spent wrapped in the cover of our limbs; a peppy number that eggs us on to get through the day, like breakfast for our souls.

Our favourite songs will play on the car stereo as we drive to work. And, the one belting out as you drop me off with a kiss &; a wave will play in my head all day long as I try to finish work knowing you'll be back soon.

Photo Courtesy: Kumar Jhuremalani

A melancholy tune for the times we're sad. An angry one for the times we fight; a soft serenade as we kiss and make-up; and, for all the moments in between, a blissful melody.

Even in our silence, music will speak to us.

Castles in the Air

She rested her head on her silky, cool pillow,
In her lavender room, now bathed in an orange glow..
She invited sleep as she laid and curled,
Coz her dreams were more real than her real world..

She wore ribbons in her hair,
And her heart on her sleeve..
And she climbed up a beanstalk-stair,
To reach the castles she built in the air..

Built far away from everyday cries,
Encased in the calm of rose-hued walls,
Away from the turbulence reflected in violet skies,
Of storms brewing from white lies..

Built alongside a lake of feelings, frozen over the years..
Whose thin ice contained dark waters,
As salty as her tears
Running as deep as her fears

Bound by a white picket fence, beside which she'd be sitting,
As gentle breezes brought by promises, soul-mates...
Neither approaching nor acting, simply waiting,
Until the winds of change took em all, left her simply wishing

In Pursuit

What is it that we wait for?

Will we ever find that elusive “something more”?

What is it that we so frantically seek?

Will we ever make it up the insurmountable peak?

What is that we’re afraid of?

Will we ever accept that which others scoff?

What is that we long for, yearn?

Will we ever learn to unlearn?

Chasing a future that is uncertain

Today’s small pleasures we shun

Chasing dreams that are evasive

Real moments we’ve forgotten to live

The “life” we always aspired has already begun

Manifesting itself in moments that come by the million

Today is the future that we once dreamed and designed

So, what is it that we’re still hoping to find? 

Surprised...

She’d always dreamt of feeling this way

Yet she never imagined it would be so strong

How could she be afraid of this emotion

She’d been waiting for so long?

She was surprised at the jealousy

That consumed her, hit her hard

Sharp and painful, it cut through her

Like a broken and serrated glass shard

She was surprised at the impatience

Counting down seconds for one call

She hated how time crawled by

As minute by minute her calm facade began to fall

She was surprised at her weakness

At becoming a victim of many a cliché

Neither being able to reign in her emotions

Nor her feelings convey

She was surprised at how her confidence broke

How she couldn’t muster up the courage to simply speak

She was not one to blabber and sputter

She hated how she suddenly felt meek

She was surprised at how easily tears came

When memories tormented her

And the intense yearning she felt

Only surprised her further

She’d always dreamt of feeling this way

Yet she never imagined she would lose all sanity

Lost in the emotion so powerful that it made her weak

How could she be surprised when she’d waited for this an eternity?

Words and Words are all I have...

I’m tired after a long day
Or I’m a lone traveler on a weary way
Or it’s a day of leisure and laze
Or life seems shrouded in a doleful haze.

When sleep eludes and I lie awake in bed
When stress mounts and troubles I need to shed
When I wish to see the world and travel
When life’s mysteries I wish to unravel

When new people I want to meet
To learn from their experiences so rich
When I wish to satisfy my curiosity of the unreal
To learn more about the ghoul, the ghost, the witch

When I want to be alone, yet lost in a crowd
A book provides the perfect refuge!
I escape into a new world...

My heart beats faster as villains I chase
And it skips a beat when I come across a handsome face...
I hide behind red velvet curtains and witness a ballroom dance
I sigh wistfully at a budding romance

I travel the seven seas and sometimes reach magical lands
I witness unique traditions and long lost customs
I stumble upon ghastly plots and cruel plans
I am lost in another world – dragged in by the story
Romantic, dramatic, action-packed or even gory...

Then just when I am in the midst of an engrossing episode
Events all around come to silent standstills
Everything seems to fall apart, slowly erode
As all disappears into nothingness, unease within me fills...

Confused I stare at the word that has me stumped -
Quagmire, Ostentatious, Perambulate, Juxtapose
Supercalifragilisticexpliadoious...
I could reach for a dictionary, I suppose...