empty cup

waking up ...
for coffee ...
for checking e-mails ...
and sometimes for reading books

food ...
food for thought ...
and then ...
only thoughts


nice music ...
good friends ...
nice conversations ...
but thoughts remain

hot tea ...
tempting smell ...
but this cup is already full
... of coffee

the music is nice ...
but too loud ...
coffee is good ...
but tea would have been better

tired ...
after swimming ...
and hungry again ...
for good food

tomato-basil soup ...
looks delicious ...
but i wanted chicken-noodle soup ...
not available today

its ok ...

- raghav

unheard melodies

out of tune ...
out of words ...

beats refuse ...
to obey the order

meaningless attempts ...
to execute ...
the masterplan ...

of creating ...
sweet melodies ...

melodies that were ...
neither heard before ...
nor will ever be ...

bitterness ...
cacophony ...

that is all that emerges ...
and the stubbornness ...
of infinite hopes

futile struggle ...
futile hopes ...
futile suffering ...

the musician ...
is insane ...

refuses to give up ...
the struggle ...

for those sweet melodies
unheard by the world ...

but he can not escape ...
the bitterness of their sweetness

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