Srivinay Salian

I met this man one day
Who threw some questions my way
He asked, what's special about me
Promptly I replied - my Individuality
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He, She, Them & You
Then there's 'I' too
Words, that like sword
Splits the One in Two
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There he was, bedside
Back turned to me
Tying his shoelace
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I have spent eternity
In a burrow, dark and deep
Like a worm beneath the soil
Averting light, stalling life
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Those souls cursed with pain
Offsprings of fickle joy
Tossed away in vain
Like a broken toy
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The Sun rose again
For the town
That had once been
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Ages spent in misery.
Ages yet to go.
What purpose it serves,
One will never know.
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Amidst the rising sun
Across the horizon
tides soar with wings
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With dawn awoke a bird
That survived the brightest night
Beside, lay the birth-giver
Ashed by the thunderous light
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Sweet little hunter
With tiny webbed feet
Stands the surface
Eyeing its prey beneath
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Tiny Little Moments
When they mount up the past
Pretending as memories
They stall my flight
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As I lay awake in bed
My mind begins to wander
Is it the beginning of a new day
Or just the end of another
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It’s happened before
It’ will happen again
Why then your heart fears
Why shed tears of pain
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There was a time, when I was sane
I lived, a mortal, on a human plain
Then it struck me out of nowhere
I ain’t belong here, this ain’t my lair
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I remember
I was just ten
Heard about ghosts
For the first time
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The whole of you is a part of me
Yet without you, there is no me
You’ve been nurtured in my shadow
You, dear, are a reflection of me
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Little dew parted with cloud
Gloating over its new identity
Clinging on hope, driven by faith
Starts its little thrill journey
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He walks amidst mortals
faking to belong
he ain’t one of them
yet chooses to pretend
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Shed not your praises on him
There’s a reason, he seems grim
There’s nothing in him to extol
He carries a curse on his soul
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Hot viscous flowing matter
Poured into casting mold
Designed and fashioned
To be toyed and controlled
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