Book of Memories

We are nothing but subjects of memories,
All of us perfected between moments,
Seeking beauty within cracks growing on our skin,
We flip these pages, inking our emotions,
Captivating, until the colosseum stands to roar,
For we are the only audience, wrapped within ourselves,
Walking, balancing ourselves upon the strings,
We nurture each step into a story.

Yearning for happiness, we bond with our brethren,
While some are lost, some stand with us till the end,
Just like this new journey, we have all flipped a page,
Resting are our empty five more pages prolonging us nomads,
Contemplating, we watch the moon change through our lives,
Landscaping, ordaining our journeys towards the stardust,
So, let us all join hands and let even the stars wonder,
Whether these beautiful memories can shake their thrones?

Frozen Blood

Abandoned like a nomad, he sat on the bench daily,
Each night, without fail, whispering to himself, desolated,
As his skin felt blue, eyes swollen, and blood frozen,
He mustered his aspirations, seeping warmth from the moon,
For the brumal winter shadowed, stars twinkled for strangers,
But he held the moon with his eyes, reverberating to its gander,
One laughing in its own sense, other just cascading some light,
One watched him change his beauty daily, other seeming like a firefly,
One slaking its solitude, other, a fettered wanderer,
As strangers just came and went by his bench,
He noticed some familiar faces, from past, and future,
For these changing faces were constant, just like his muse,
Each night, he fought with the stars,
And the moon stood by in solitary,
Unfathomable deeds were about to be tasked,
The show called, “Twilight and its façade”,
One little string to hold onto, a little beacon to cast,
One smiling face, a sweet warm “Hello”,
One could light up the night, another feeling rejoiced,
As this rhythm of façades is completed and dawn again.

Gambling Statue

Thundering roars of grey lightening, grey clouds,
He stood atop his own reflection, black waters,
For his empire of dirt was soaked with his own blood,
He stood there bruised, perplexed, face to face with death,
Thrown in front of broken statues,
His sanity was questioned,
All he could muster, was a giggle at his funeral,
The broken gambling statue stayed mum,
As they threw themselves in front of the mirrors,
They'd lapsed out of their own self,
For now the rain was over,
Gambling riots and bubbling colours weren't visible to naked eyes,
They talked about his free will,
Then clenched his own hands to write one,
They slept better with metal under their pillows,
And believed in unwritten rules,
He chuckled at the gambling statue,
The one who played favouritism to its last,
For what a mere objective idea could bring,
For how some fools abandon everything,
Letting some of his children enjoy the rain,
While others helplessly cursing it, in vain,
Some ideas were passed down,
Some memories were casted open,
As he breathed his last breath,
The bloody gambling statue was broken.

Back to Beginnings

Far beneath the black sparkling sand,
Tiny droplets wrinkled and overwhelmed,
Beyond the mustered bubbles,
The cascading light rose the curtains,
A soft serene melody engulfing the stage,
Night souvenirs ceasing the dream-catching.

Back to beginnings,
Encircling complete rhythm,
Memory brimming the ocean of uncertainty,
Ripples echoing underneath the veins,
Like a chandelier, ghosting anamnesis danced,
For the whispering paper plans now carved new paths.

Blooded Black and Broken White

Enslaved by their orders, the war raged,
Men roared and marched, earth shaken to its core,
General stood, strategizing, watching, reminiscing,
A hero of war, he was, bestowed with experience,
Cavaliers massacring the infantry,
The far-fetched dream was broken,
Long before the dusk hugged the mother earth,
The general was surrounded by cadavers,
For the battle was over, experience paid its diligence,
Many of his own knights were wounded, while many laid neglected,
As the dusk brewed darker,
The bystander ravens approached,
Scanning with their eyes,
Scavenging with their heists,
The general stood still, watching, reminiscing,
His life played like a piano before his eyes,
As how he once stood where the ravens lay,
As how these ravenous cockroaches strayed,
He looked one of them in the eye,
His voice cracked, his hands trembled,
The void came and went in waves,
Wrapping and then pushing him away,
Cockroaches pleaded for life, continuing to best their treasure,
General played his part the best, being a soldier to the end,
Like a piano, he played his piece,
Blooded black and broken white,
Swelling storm echoed in the void,
Failing freedom wrapped the General.

Untamable Red (East meets West)

Untamable red sprawled all around,
Seeping through the soil,
A little anchored atop the yellow flowers,
Emphatic restlessly falling,
Dawn and dusk separated the two realms,
One faced towards east, other ended with the west,
The bloodied flower resonated with the sun,
Embarked its journey from heritage to modern glutton.

As I stood transit, a memory hazed around me,
Resemblance of the red took me down the memory lane,
Different figures of stapled red,
Circle, or a line drawn on a familiar face,
Once bonded by that similar red, it felt like home,
Now, the fire burns orange, dissipating red and yellow far,
Leaves stood stationary, watching the flower rotate,
Watching the dusk approaching, and dawn to evaporate.

Diversity chasing after discrepancy, it seeped deeper,
Foolish authority whipping it out of cattle,
Some clinging to their long-gone heritage,
Some promising the face of new tomorrow,
Some marking their own territories,
Some like me, standing transit, only reasoning,
Be it cow, goat, sheep, pig or even chickens,
They all bled red, they all bled red.