Red

Its a life of blood,

Red red, sweet sour,

Blended rushing sorrow,

Pain pain in the heart.

Long lost my mind,

Long ago it was,

When boiling blood,

Did stain us all.

Drenched and soaked

In the rush of time,

What’s left behind,

Ain’t worth a dime.

Pretty pretty face,

Prettier than love,

Try hide those scars,

Behind the blush.

Try rip apart

Every faded smile,

Give up, give up!

You will hear them cry!

Toss the coin,

Flip it through fire,

Its a life of blood, Red red ,sweet sour.

18 September 2010

FRUSTRATIONS

There are these somethings that are now driving me nuts. It is crazy, the way people around me are behaving. How strange that I should refer to my best buddies as “people”. These little action-reaction processes that we go through , the miniscule interactions that I still have with my now gradually fading away friends , these are the ones that make all the difference, now that they are physically so far away from me. Fear is that this distance now seems like much more than just a physical separation.

“X1” is long gone...though I’m not sure if I should call a two months break in a relationship of 11yrs “long”...but there seems to be really meek chances of her coming back. Spoke to her about medics when dadabhai was hospitalised, that is because I trust her and perhaps will always know what a wonderful person she is, but my respect for the way I lead my life does not allow me to forget that horrible session we had and go ahead and talk to her like nothing ever happened. One may call it my ego, my stupid sense of relationships, my irrational pride...but these are the same virtues or vices withstanding which I made friends like her, and they have stayed, very few in number, but have been there through the thickest and the thinnest. Today, there is almost none.

Coming to bosom friend no. 2. Perhaps one or two years less old a friend than “X1”, my dearest “X2”. Health irregularities, workload, widely differing schedules and now residence in cities separated by thousands of kilometres have always barred regular conversations or day outs together. There were times when we did not meet for over an year and yet the bond of friendship, the love only grew stronger. I met her a few months back, spent great time at her house together with her family and "X1" was there for a day too... X2 also came over to my "sole room" , my life in an apartment alone (where i spent a very valuable one year of my life) . Things looked and felt great, what more could i ask for? And then came the day when she returned to her university again and to a new life altogether it seemed. Now i dont get any updates of her life from her anymore, even if I am the one knocking at her door (metaphorically of course) day and night. Either she is busy or preoccupied or is bound by some unavoidable and unbreakable barriers from conversing or responding to my call (not necessarily a phone call). Just got to know, and thankfully from herself,even though on inquiry on my part, about a trip she made related to work. Considering her work and study is something i have always admired , it came as a bit of a surprise to hear that it was "all so sudden". Sounds like I am being really bitchy...thats exactly how detatched I am from the ones who literally kept me "alive" not just as a human being, but as a girl , into a lady, perhaps a fully grown woman as well...

The Joy in Sadness

If you thought sadness and sorrow go hand in and, think again. Sadness sometimes escapes the boundaries of its definition and evolves into a treasured possession, an achievement, a fine gain.

In fact, happiness, satisfaction, ecstasy, all have one thing in common – the sadness entwined with each of them.

‘Sad’ is not what you are when you’re hurt. It is what you feel when you are very close to the perfect happiness of life. Sad is what you are when you have a joy so great and so rare that you know only a strange wave of the invisible wand can again bring you barely close to experiencing moments of comparable magnitude. These are moments that are actually hours or maybe an entire day shrunk into a few seconds when the mind sleeps and the sixth sense awakens, lightening up every miniscule detail of the world around you, and driving, sometimes even forcing, you to make a grab at time while it still stands waiting, waiting for you to create a memory. Then the memory, like a hungry wind, incorporates into itself those innumerable moments that may have appeared dull , those hundreds of feelings that may have seemed worth little, and brushing off the dust to reveal their true colours, composes an enchanting tune that blows a storm through your mind.

The mind awakens, the strong winds blowing are nothing but the opening notes of sadness while the seconds you live are ones of pure bliss. The bliss ceases, as every beautiful spell of shower must end, but the winds keep blowing. This is sadness, these powerful surges of air that you might once have thought to be a force too weak, now a strong, intense rush of wind that forces outbursts, flowing streams of tears down your cheeks, rolling down your chin, finally sliding down your neck into your heart.

When such is the form of sadness, when you don’t need to be hurt to be sad, then sadness is a boon, a long awaited gift. Then that sad goodbye records feelings that you would die to experience again. Then, that final hug is a bearer of a beautiful future that will be filled with hope and belief. Then, that sadness is joy, those tears are pearls; the sobs, magic potion. Then, you are happy to be sad, you are relieved to be sad, and sadness, that day, is a gain, indeed.

Sunday, 19 September 2010

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