light as a feather

light as a feather ...
smoothly surfing ...
surfing on the breeze ...
breeze full of scent ...
scent of the roses ...

every single rose ...
full of beauty ...
beauty to behold ...
the moment of satisfaction ...
the moment of peace ...

the moment ... ...
passes inevitably ...
the next moment presents ...
a surprise ...
full of thorns ...
full of pain ...

pain that worsens ...
by the memories ...
of that last moment ...
the present moment ...
seems endless torture ...

a heavy stone ...
on a tender heart ...
light as a feather ...
crushed by its own weakness ...
maybe forever ... ...

but in the end ...
my greatest weakness ...
turns into greatest strength ...

breeze ...
as soothing as ever ...
and me ...
as light as a feather ...

surfing continues ...
miraculously.

best,
raghav

hallucinating inside ...

think ...
think again ...
follow the chain ...
of pure logic ...
simple ... black and white ...
facts are facts ...
the rest is mirage ...
a hallucination ...

feel ...
feel deeply ...
follow the arrow ...
of the gut intuition ...
colors are colors ...
neither black nor white ...
black and white world ...
only a hallucination ...

more i think ...
more i conclude ...
thoughts are self defeating ...
contradicting ...

more i feel ...
more i forecast ...
a storm ... of feelings ...
devastating ...

insecure ...
with or without logic ...
with or without feelings ...

is anything worth thinking ?
is anything worth feeling ?

faith ...
the hallucination inside ...
absolutely essential ...
to hope ...
to survive ...
amidst the greatest hallucination ...
the life.

- raghav

Free as a bird (The Beatles)

Free As A Bird
Lennon/McCartney/Harrison/Starkey

Free as a bird,
it's the next best thing to be.
Free as a bird.

Home, home and dry,
like a homing bird I'll fly
as a bird on wings.

Whatever happened to
the life that we once knew?
Can we really live without each other?

Where did we lose the touch
that seemed to mean so much?
It always made me feel so...

Free as a bird,
like the next best thing to be.
Free as a bird.

Home, home and dry,
like a homing bird I'll fly
as a bird on wings.

Whatever happened to
the life that we once knew?
Always made me feel so free.

Free as a bird.
It's the next best thing to be.
Free as a bird.
Free as a bird.
Free as a bird.

The Rainbow

How can the very eyes of the truth ...
tell a blatant lie ?

The two shadows of the same me ...
which one to trust ? ... and why ?

Denial remains ...
and so does its denial.

The neverending struggle ...
to avoid crossing ...
the invisible line.

The truth is obscure ...
deceptive ...
and perhaps as impure.

The invisible line ...
is dotted ...
to allow crossing indefinitely.

Still ... I exist as one single truth ...
magically ... perfectly ... purely.

The rainbow of truth ...
presents itself ...
in its most true form.

How can this magical sight ...
even hold a slightest of lie ?
It is only
more beautiful ...
more sublime ...
more pure ...
and even more true.

- Raghav

Where the mind is without fear ...

WHERE the mind is without fear and the head is held high

Where knowledge is free

Where the world has not been broken up into fragments

By narrow domestic walls

Where words come out from the depth of truth

Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection

Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way

Into the dreary desert sand of dead habit

Where the mind is led forward by thee

Into ever-widening thought and action

Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake.

Rabindranath Tagore

Chasing the horizon

travelling everyday ...
the same road ...
the same direction ...
see cars come ... and go away ...
the gradually vanishing whistles ...
inviting a chase ...

the sky is just a mirror ...
reflects the same story ...
clouds come everyday ...
forming such wonderful shapes ...
every single one to disappear ...
with wind ... they go somewhere far ...
again ... mocking me to chase them ...

the beach ... the sea ...
play the same mockery ...
this time with the waves ...
the vanishing waves ...
promising to take me far ...
at the end ...
just a foolish chase ...

the whole world ...
is nothing but a mockery ...
an invitation ...
of chasing ...
making me run like a madman ...
to chase the horizon.

no ...
stop the chase.
dwell high ... way too high ...
among the moon and the stars ...
to realize ... once and forall ... that ...
there is no horizon that can be chased.

raghav

The Missing Piece

You and me ...
with our jigsaw puzzles.
yours harder than mine ...
and mine more subtle than yours.

Our puzzles took so many shapes ...
independently and together ...
some funny ... some serious ...
some so so ...
while some terrific ... yet incomplete ...
just an illusion of being complete.

The missing piece ...
yours with me and mine with yours ?
Do u realize the same ?
or yet another illusion ?

- Raghav