Hardik Vaidya Poems

What shall we tell your folks back home?
How shall we speak the language of silence?
Will we manage to gather courage?
Stand upright, walk with heads held high?
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The bloom of youth through the rip in time
Cascading down the bosom of the wild universe
Tinge of red in its petals of eternal passion
Eyes of a young woman, sleepless yet blissful night
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Death, what are you?
Brain dead? Cold heart? Senseless?
I have known you, I have felt your breath.
Your cold kiss on my parched lips has left me asphyxiated.
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64 years the moon lusts, loves and shrieks
Waxes wanes and screams
Hides his tears on the dark side, frozen as hope
In the cold core of his deadened heart
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What is love?
Does it have mass? Is it a reagent or a catalyst?
Is it a reaction? If so, exothermic or endothermic?
Does love weigh same on moon?
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The rape of Mumbai:

A city of dreams. Dreams of men. Men and only men.
A diva that rocks, a diva that rolls, a diva that regales in men.
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You have arrived:

When the tweet within, leaps out.
Peeks through every face, of every book, of the book of all books.
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The eternal need:

The vast expanse of your limitless eyes
Do not quench but fuel my eternal need
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Sunday Morning:

I crane my neck to see the sky above
From the boxed grill of my city windows life
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One day,
While wandering through,
The thought logged alleys,
Of my narrow mind,
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