Facets of life...

In a tideland, life feels like the roaring wave,
which crawls through its own ups and downs.
Wandering in the mirror, life turns into a journal,
encrypted with random smiles and frowns.

In an amusement park, life looks like a roller coaster;
it has its thrills, twists and turns.
In a hospital, life looks like an ill patient,
seeking for the cure of the maladies and burns.

In a stadium, life takes the form of a sport,
and it just depends on the game and how we play.
When insanity overwhelms, it drags into the fouls:
deceive, cheat, betray or even slay.

Any random day, life can feel like a blessing,
ill-fortuned next day might be, it turns into a curse.
When melancholy wraps up, life moves like a snail
but on a brighter day, it can run like a horse.

Life has its love but also injects its hatred.
Life can be given; life can be taken.
Life has its gentler touch but also has harder punch.
Few tranquil days and other days are shaken.

Life brings you on your knees in times of need,
disappoints you with gravel when you look for a gem.
Life brings you a lot of things, but in the end,
its all about what we do with them.

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मनोबाद

भावनाको लहरमा बग्दै मनका अधुरा आकांक्षालाई बन्धक राखेर
थाहै न पाइ मन को कुनामा एउटा चित्र कोर्न पुगेछु।
अच्चमको चित्र यो, मन ले जे सोच्यो त्यहि बनी दिन्छ,
मनका सबै चाहनाहरुलाई आफैमा अटाइदिन्छ।

सधैं धक फुलाएर बोल्ने तस्बिर आज खै किन लाटो बनेको छ।
धेरै पटक बोलाए मैले, म तिर फर्किन्छ।
खाली एकहोरो हेरी मात्र रहन्छ, निर्जिब जस्तै
मेरो सजिब चित्र किन आज निर्जिब बनेको?
यो प्रश्न को जवाफ छैन म सङ, न त चित्र सँग नै छ।
शायद त्यो चित्र आँफै आएर कुनै दिन भन्ने छ मलाइ।

मेरो मनमा एक कुना मा टागिएको यो चित्र,
जति हेरे पनि चित्त बुझ्दैन, सायद मेरो उत्कृष्ट रचना हो यो।
मोनालिसा को मुस्कान जस्तै बोल्दै न बोली केही बोले जस्तो,
केही भन्दै न भनी केही भनी रहे जस्तो।
म फेरी बोलाउछु, प्रश्न गरी रहन्छु।
तर मेरो प्यारो चित्र निसब्द छ, मौन छ।

रङ सँग होली खेलेर रमाउने मेरो चित्र
आज किन रङ संगै लुकामरी खेल्दै छ?
म आँफैले बुझ्न सकेको छैन यो रहस्य।
तै पनि म दंग पर्छु, मख्ख पर्छु,
लठ्ठ पर्छु त्यो चित्र को आक्रिती देखेर।
मेरो एक्लोपनको त्यो साथी ,
अझै पनि मेरो मनमा अटल, अमर छ।
म बोलाई नै रहनेछु, भोली न भए
पर्सी त म सँग पक्कै पनि बोल्नेछ, मेरो चित्र।

Scrambled emotions..

Tattered pieces of stars all over the sky,
like the wreckage of a crumbled soul.
Past are the sunny days when I could fly,
now I am falling into the bottomless hole.

I gaze to star shards, cry tears of sorrow,
my heart solidifying slowly freezing to ice.
I wonder if I will wake up tomorrow
to a warmth that will feel: oh, it's so nice.

Reality starts to hit harder than ever before,
salubrity and felicity have forsaken me.
I am not the same happy soul anymore,
but my conscience will not consent: let it be.

I palpate dismal dark time setting in
and I crawl and sit upon my throne.
Bell rings: time to let the infliction begin
no place to wander, no love to call my own.

Towards my way I witness a lighting heading,
I squeeze myself and start to lower my head.
It's red all over, the skies are bleeding
and respires are fading away, I feel I am dead.

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Dreamcatcher

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Had been there and done that, raw feelings were rife,
but never knew what I had been really missing in life.

Until I met you, one rainy night under the masquerade,
I could still notice you under the mask in that parade.

I stood there, in front of you completely vivacious,
dancing in those lovely tune and feeling gracious.

Then, I handed you the power, the power to destroy me
and the power to empower, my faith on you was the key.

I've realized a dream, but other dreams are in the chain.
When, how the chains of dream will unfold, mysteries remain.

But I am here on my knees ready to receive without any fuss,
whatever god has carved in our fate, saved in the store for us.

So, bless us oh dear god, we are what you want us to be,
cloud hangs over on our way, but silver lining what I can see.

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A dark dream

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Awful life crawling without any reason,
touch without sense, time without season.
Sleeping awake and choking on the grim,
listening loudly to those silent scream.

Life frowns at me, passess a cancerous sore,
a squalid parasite feeding on my inner core.
I am on my knees, pretending alive but dead,
glaring at the invisible blood I've just bled.

Eyes are red and cold hands are fisted,
deep inside, I am warped, I am twisted.
So many tricks and then so many lies,
Too many whens, whats and too many whys.

I am crushed to pieces from those ruthless hand,
mystery of infliction, I just can't understand.
I sense deep inside that somehow, I am dying,
palpates my soul and all that's underlying.

Soundless and sightless, unseen and unheard,
boundless and mindless, obscure and absurd.
All empathy lying ungraced, unbraced, unemployed,
I am perishing, in dark dream, obliterating the void.

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A friend like you...

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In this hectic and crazy life,
we need few moments of cheer;
someone to praise an elation
or wipe out the saline tear.

We need someone to share
the pleasure of tiny things,
in order to appreciate the bliss
and happiness that life brings.

Through the moments happy or sad,
beside us someone ever ready to walk;
Someone always there to listen,
the ramblings when we want to talk.

In those hapless ailed days,
heart might shiver with pain,
at failures and tragedies,
or the goals we can't attain.

And, we would start looking for
the solace of a savvy heart,
to give us power and courage
and sweep away the dreadful dirt.

It's hard to find a companionship,
selfless, generous, eternal and true;
life would not have been happier, delightful;
had there not been a cherished friend like you!

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For you, sister...

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I wish I could win a lottey,
I would buy happiness for you,
purchase delight from the sun
and rent freshness from the dew.

I wish I could fetch the star,
I would do it just for you,
and share with you its illume
on the darks you're feeling blue.

I wish I could build a heaven,
you could name it your very own.
A place full of serenity and joy
where you would reside alone.

I wish I could adopt your sorrow,
I would dispose them in the sea,
But turning all these wishes true,
it's very difficult for me.

For you, I can neither build the heaven
nor catch a star pair.
But let me be what I know best,
the loving "brother", who's always there...

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