Living Life through Someone Else's

A wide gaze,

Breathless chest -

She is absorbing

My stories

Bit by bit,

Transposing herself

In the stories

In my place

Substituting her

Life with mine,

Which I think

Is as ordinary

As it goes,

As normal

As possible:

Does she know this?

 

Is it love?

- The reason for

Her transposed

Existence; or

Is my life

Truly exceptional?

So any one

Would want it?

I admit though

I love it!

- Her desire

To be me…

But she should

Get her own

First-hand life –

Need I tell her this?

Evolution of a Thought

Electrical waves are dancing
To some music of revolutions
Which is revolving around a guitar
And its rhythm dancing 
Around a room that is half-lit 
By lights refracting through water


These only help to accentuate 
The confusion of an empty mind 

Which usually focusses 
On rebellious thoughts
And miseries and fantasies
The mind is searching for words
To put down on a paper


But now a love song 
Playing softly is preventing 
Philosophical thoughts from rushing in
Faces which may make emotions 
Move come up instead 
Such thoughts though 
Are promptly discarded


Gradually the ideas on 
Truth and untruth 
Conscious and unconscious
Flow into the mind
And fill the previous 
Empty spaces to satisfaction  

Photo copyright: Sanchita C

An Excited Mind

Excited, nervous, stressed

Veins throbbing inside my head;

I lay my head on a pillow

But there are crowed images in my mind

Light and deep thoughts making noise

Jumping from ideas to ideas

From one vision to the next one;

Tiredness has set in though eyes won’t close

Then thoughts and ideas begin to speak

And I was speaking to them!

Is this beginning of insanity

Or the mind of an excited little girl?

May be its just me: an ageing

Immature woman – still not content,

Still searching; many ambitions

And looking for eternal peace;

But then, when peace comes to me

I will rest for an eternity

Now please let me keep on going!

Pictures

I spread the pictures
Through them, I spread happiness 
Their happiness; but more
Than theirs, my own!


Its my way of giving
Back to the world that
Has given so much - in form of
Painting, sketching and photography!


Their smiles and gratitude
Their warmth and jokes –
Fills up my heart, satisfies my ego
Rejuvenates my mind and soul