A Quote To Live Our Lives By...

"People travel to wonder at the height of the mountains, at the huge waves of the seas, at the long course of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars, and yet they pass by themselves without wondering."

St. Augustine,
Early Christian Priest, Author

Help Me Fly Away...

I wish to disappear
to a faraway island
where everyone I meet
knows me not and sees me not.

I wish to capture them
in thoughts and images
while they carry on
unaffected by me and without affecting me.

I wish to love them
in my heart and soul
while they love among themselves
and loves not the 'me' they don't even see.

I wish to live among them
In the truest form that I can ever be
while they walk on with their lives
totally comfortable with the sides of me they do not see.

And when the time comes...

I wish to die amidst them
unseen and unknown
and only too naturally
unloved and untouched.
Sparing myself of the miseries of a commoner's life
which thrives on binding me within a system
belittling me into submission
using as a reason this human form that I am in.

O God of All Gods...

Help me fly away to that faraway land
The whereabouts of which
Only one as invisible as You
will know the way to...

Playing the Game of Life...

One step at a time I took,
In this hopscotch of a life,
that I started playing some time ago.
A shaky manipulation of one foot,
A careful balance of the other,
Both I managed cleverly,
So as not to fall and give the game away.
So as to reach the end and declare myself the winner.

But little did I know then as I know now,
that a game it is after all,
and like games will, and must be,
life too must be played with the right mix,
of shaky manipulation,and careful balance.
Till we reach the end to discover,
that the trick of the game is not to not fall,
But to merely learn to balance the probabilities,
And manipulate the improbabilities.

Spare Me Please...O Powerful One...

We sometimes live in a daze,
Gazing at vague visions of love and life,
Believing them to be the only thing that's real,
Forgetting all else that had (in fractions) made us what we were.

True, isn't it?
Insanity hits even the sanest of us all,
And when it comes,
it comes not alone,
it comes not in its original guise.

If only we knew,
Insanity is what it is,
As it comes enticing us into its arms.
Would we then have given ourselves to it blindly?

I bow to you in awed obeisance, O Insanity,
How powerful you must really be,
To have all of me choking in your hands,
Even without the slightest tightening of your grip.

Indeed, you are the greatest god of all gods,
I will now learn to appease,
Just so that in all compassion,
You will spare me ...
(for as long as I move about in this world as this physical being that I am now)

...of even the glimpse of your existence.

As I Am Meant To Be...

Noone would see me here,
Noone would judge or be judged here.

Here - I am my own world
Here - I am my own hell,
Here - I alone will hurt and be hurt.

Finally -
I am as I am meant to be.