Category Archives: musings

Like a potent potion Love, the drug-like emotion Drowns you under its influence Like an addictive substance Creates a mood euphoric Makes speech suddenly rhetoric Transports you in a world of fantasy You dive into realms of ecstasy Even as it stealthily upturns your life Maddening love makes you feel alive. * Alas, just asContinue reading “Love as a drug”

So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be spilt. – William Shakespeare Carrying a weight constantly Of guilt that I felt incessantly On falling short of expectations Efforts thwarted by frustrations Never was able to be good enough The path to success seemed to be rough I chided myselfContinue reading “Guilt”

I searched my soul for replies Related to my lukewarm ties To the people all around me I could not bond completely With them like they did with each other I felt relationships were like a tether That would root me down to the ground When I just wanted to fly all around Like a fish outContinue reading “Solitude”

Every morning I decide To take life in my stride To feel beautiful inside out To erase traces of self-doubt Stand up straight, head held high I know my limit is the sky My standards continue to rise No one can make me compromise I shall be honest and sincere You shall not see me shedContinue reading “My morning mantra”

Life may give people a second chance But there is something that broken once Can never regain its form original Even when the damage seems minimal Ah! The slippery slope of trust Precarious it is, remember you must Takes years to build, forever to earn But can be destroyed with just one wrong turn Fragile like glass,Continue reading “Trust”

Liberated I was the day I realized, traveling down life’s highway That I was the sole creator Of my destiny, for worse or for better To color my life’s blank canvas In brilliant shades of happiness With positive words life’s book fill Uplifting ideas in my mind drill Choose to face all daunting issues With aContinue reading “Artist of my destiny”

Languid limbs stretched out  Splayed carelessly on the couch Bones feel sore, painful, weary Eyes unfocused, vision blurry Widening yawns, hard to suppress Benumbed mind, words hard to express Fighting sleep in feeble attempts To make exhausted nerves relent And play along for hours, few more Until sleep finally shuts mind’s door This is how my evenings unfoldContinue reading “Evening fatigue”

Growing up, I thought my aim Was to acquire “success” Measured by money, power and fame- It was the key to happiness I thought it was a milestone That at a finite distance I’d reach I’d gladly face hardships alone Made a promise to myself I could not breach. As I labored along the pathway Success acquired a qualityContinue reading “Success”

Events that leave an indelible stain On the temporal lobe of my brain Over time they tend to morph Pleasant memories seem to dwarf Memories that are too painful to bear- My memory bank is never fair It indulges in this clever artifice For joyous moments it displays avarice The good it tends to magnify manifoldContinue reading “Tricks memory plays”

Tyrannical tedium of loneliness Sucking out the last breath of happiness I trudged wearily, of company devoid Dejected, listless, hopeless, annoyed Ennui enveloped me like a shroud My sky was covered by a dark cloud No will to live, no ambition to achieve Nothing to trust, no one to believe ** Then one day, myContinue reading “Alive”

I am my own nemesis I thwart my own progress On weaknesses I lay emphasis And disregard any success This is something I realized After introspection relentless And when I did, I was surprised That I had caused my unhappiness.. Every negative experience Made me turn inwards and chide Myself, and curse my existence- From myself IContinue reading “My nemesis”

I had lived life all along In various hues of grey The world to which I belonged Had night blurring into day, And the day morphing into night With indistinct borders all around No sharp distinction of black and white Innumerable shades of grey I had found The lack of distinct hues, the blurriness FuelledContinue reading “Shades of grey”