Dream peddler

I

When the pain subsides,

I close my eyes, to get back my past

Hallowed memories burn and blur!

Life has not been

The dream I saw!

I turn every page, to see it bleed,

I turn every corner, to wish you were there

The sun is so silent, the moon burning!

The night gave the pains

And along came dreams!

II

I so wish you would come,

Hold my hand, take my breath,

Into the cages of love!

I wish I could have held your hands till eternity,

Bring you flowers, and write you poetries,

I showed you my dreams,

But,

You gave me fresh blood!

And along came my dreams

The Children of the Sky

[Inspired from the movie, "The city Of god

The smoke is overflowin’ from the trembling berretta,

As the human Gods rant and rave, of a ruthless vendetta!

Gift them a flower!

Sing them a love song!

The earth is smokin’ smudging the wet painted skies,

As the tears rebel and tender hands hold guns n’ agonies!

The man down there is bleeding; can you buy him a stairway to heaven?

As the blue bird comes and waits; can you give him his childhood once stolen?

Gift him a drop of water!

Sing him a lullaby!

The earth is smokin’ smearing the hallowed sun,

As the tender minds smoke, snort and kill, to become a man!

Has he been crying the entire night? Starving since the full moon?

Did you hand him the gun that day? Did you help him paint the skies maroon?

You gifted him a chain!

You sang him a war song!

The earth is smokin’ because you lit the fire,

As the children of the sky, wait for the summer’s ire!

The man up there is unforgiving, can you pay back for the freedom; you stole one day?

Did he sing you a lullaby? Did you ask him a drop of water?

He sang you a love song!

He gifted you a stairway to heaven!

The earth’s smokin’ because you gave him the gun,

As you lie writhing in the city of gods, a peeping sun!

In here you wish to fight, you win,

My window to my world, stuck in those starry eyes,

My window to my world, getting larger by the day,

A little rain, a little sunshine, a little to the east it lay!

A little bit of the meadow, a patch of the sky,

Faces, religions, colors, emotions, a handmade bonsai!

My window to my world, a blue house behind the trees,

Creeping bougainvillea wheezing with the breeze!

A little night, a little autumn, a little frame it held,

Somebody’s been crying in the blue house as the night rebelled!

My window to my world, where you see what you wish,

A little compassion, a little bit of courage, but a little selfish,

As I cling to this beautiful squared world, the twilight turns godless,

The marine drive, the Kerala sky, and those sweet rubbing noses!

My window to my world, knows no confines,

No vices, no virtues, no fading smiles, no desires,

Ready to look beyond, to search for that love long due!

In here you wish to have, you sin!

Peeping sunshine, flickering stars, and early goodbyes!

If I’d steal, I would steal a patch of the blue sky,

To step out of the cubicle, and make the bluebirds fly!

If I’d steal, I would steal a woman’s heart,

To kill hate, and make love never part!

If I’d steal, I would steal a night from our college days,

To see old faces and kiss the rising sun before closing our eyes!

If I’d steal, I would steal a missed chance,

To play the old tune in the guitar and let the world dance!

If I’d steal, I would steal the morning’s dew,

To show that happiness lies in the untold few!

If I’d steal, I would steal a drop of people’s tear,

To give them to the rains, let the earth hear!

If I’d steal, I would steal a life that once led,

To let him make the world a place worth living, not yet for the dead!

If I’d steal, I would steal a few hours of my pain,

To see that possible dream, and bring in the rain!

If I’d steal, I would steal a cup of my happiness,

To give it to them, who are far behind me in the pursuit of it!

Into the sleeping sun,

Of a parabolic freedom,

I want to escape.

to the woods.

to the silence,

where words kill.

Into the melancholic evening,

of an enthralling beauty,

I want to break free.

from the boundations.

from the death and hush,

where you can’t say what you want.

Into the utopia of my dreams,

Of an euthnasic way to awakening,

I want to lie forever.

in the laps of the angel.

in the greens of my past,

where deceptions stop.

Into the night stretched to eternity,

Of an enchanted star studed sky,

I want to steal the world.

to keep them to myself.

to let them live with me,

where separation never comes.

                                                 You may be the moonshine that lightens up my face;

You may be the final sweat spilled in this destiny defying dance;

You may be the reason why there is still music in the wars!

You may be the reason why lovers still find a heaven in the stars!

You love me but you don’t know, I am the orphan of destiny!!

You may be the just a drop in the rain;

You may be the angel who soothes the pain;

You may be the reason, why the nights still bleed!

You may be the reason, why silences speak and eyes read!

You hate me but you don’t know that I still love the seas!!

You may be a dreamer’s thrill;

You may be a shadow too real;

You may be the reason, why people don’t fight with fate!

You may be the reason, why the moon doesn’t shine off-late!

You stay indifferent, but you don’t know I hide my face and still cry!!

You may be the silent sound of the night;

You may be the hand in this poetry in the light;

You may be the reason, why it feels like the tears are mine!

You may be the reason, why all emotions seem benign!

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How far will the tears roll?

How dead will life be for me?

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How long will this walk be?

How scary will this dream be?

It’s only a matter of time, before you can bleed like me

…..or can you?

Off the twilight zone;

Into the woods

Of the sleeping sun;

Can you fall in love with the red?

Oh! Babe! Keep the smile and bleed like me!

It’s only a matter of time, that you realize the reds in me,

…, before you can love to die.

In the hands of eternity;

Into a lifetime

Of a spotless mind;

Can you see the same old dream?

Oh! Babe! Bleed in red, but keep the smile like me!

It’s only a matter of time, you realize; there are angels in the nights  

…, before you can live in the everyday.

Turn the page;

Of my shadows

Of the 1000 miles;

Can you sing that beauty must live?

Oh! Babe! Would you agree that pain’s a beauty!

It’s only a matter of time that you think, who you are.

…see me, when you look at nothing.

To fade in you;

Of spilled blood

Of love undone;

You can’t bleed like I do?

 Oh! Babe! Keep the smile, coz I won’t show how I bled.

I have shed my tears all of this night,

I have started this yet again, a brand new fight!

The moon, the time and the steely September,

Whispered to me, “U must move, she aint your lover”!

Another dream went crashing down in the fall,

The bullet with the butterfly wings has miles, before the final call!

If you were the sands, and I the sea,

To kiss your toes with foams of love, it would have been me.

If you were the subtle breath, and I the soft whisper,

To ignite the fire within, I would have; in the sultry November.

If you were the princess and I the fortress,

To wipe your tears, I would have; in distress.

If you were the ruby and the I the dust,

To move away, I would have and let you lust;

If you were the effect and I the cause,

To let bliss flow, I would have, ‘n let moment pause.

If you were the dreams, and I the darkest of the night

                   To make the stars come closer, I would have traveled years of light.

If you were the rose, and I the thorn,

To see the red of the rose, I would have been born.

I have thought over it so many times,

Hardly found an octet that actually rhymes.

As whispers merge into the twilight…

I kiss the dying sun,

Hoping the dawn

To be eternal and bright

I missed you in my dreams.

I have taken grief, in the everyday…

I have fought,

The burning midnight

But I was the heel of Achilles

I missed you in my dreams.

As I romanced the moon and the black …

I have betrayed,

The thirst of this illusion

I refused to drink the darkness

I missed you in my dreams.

I never saw the way to this maze…

Every door I crept on to,

Was a mirage

It wasn’t my destiny

I missed you in my dreams.

You were never meant for me…

It was I, who loved you,

Some people,

Are destined to be the sea

I missed you in my dreams.

It was always summer…

But it rained,

Like never before

I will miss your face, your voice, your smile,

I missed you in the twinkle of my dreams.

I loved you, coz I thought you would love me back,

I made you the queen, coz I saw the sunshine through the crack.

Every rhyme I made, it rhymed with your name,

I never thought love would be such a waiting game.

Some things you say, still singes my heart, but it’s charred,

Every beat I composed, life accepted, but it made me a retard.

So many love songs, so many suns went down,

A flicker dumped in a heap of sorrow, still shone.

I heaped time on it, to burn it for good, crush it into oblivion,

Somebody said dreams die hard, they became a mere scion.

I thought I won’t look back, at my grey, red and the blue,

I tried to fly without wings, I failed and I never had a clue.

And here I stand, atop all my emotions, subdued, deferred,

So many dreams, so many tears, heartaches, they never concurred.

Now, I don’t want to traverse that distance again,

The path, trodden with thorns, is impossible to regain.

I tried not to give vengeance for your hard love,

But, this is way of war, isn’t it? A push, a shove!