Myriad mirages

Likened to angels’ radiance or a child’s smile Why does this irresistible innocence conceal your guile? There’s no count of how many wounds you bleed How can you offer to heal my soul? Walk with me for a while You’ll know the joy of going that one extra mile For, when you have nothing to lose The beauty is seen in the path you choose Let there be no vows, no promises And I swear I wont ask for any compromises Far away from all the clamor and fuss For once we’ll listen to the silence between us We’re worlds apart and yet I proffer you solace Let’s not rue over the choices we embraced There’s melody in everything we compose And after this tiring journey it’s time for repose. prynka may 07

Am bad...

I can’t think of a reason to ask you to stay And yes, I have run out of all words that I had to say But if these eyes convey anything to you at all… just look back, for a while Wasn’t impressed by your promises of crossing the oceans or bringing the stars And I knew your mock vows were nothing but farce And still my tears can be dried only by your one bright smile King of hearts, you rule the kingdom of travesty I saw the beauty in your dishonesty And there I was… drawn to the crime Today I stand at the gallows, facing my sentence Knowing that I was brought here only by your trance And now, in gold shackles, I will gladly do my time! prynka apr 07

Somewhere down below

Walking the tight rope between dreams Do I fear the fall? No. it is the walk that scares me more The fall, the terminating end – an eternity in itself Is much comforting and yeah, it’s beckoning me From the dark corners of lost alcoves where shadows stay longer than their bodies Where there is a silent stillness almost as calm as death! And when I am to plummet into the pit less abyss I see your radiant face Redolent with all the memories – I never knew I had Giving me a dilemma, a sense of regret… of losing something, I never dared to call mine! prynka Apr 07

Boulevard of broken dreams

There can be a hundred ways of saying a thing But how loud do you speak to a stone-deaf heart? You may rain cats and dogs or shine the warmth of the sun But what is to melt this diamond jeweled bosom? Silence rings in the depths of my soul Pleasant memories have no meaningful existence anymore When you know that the core has been untruthful How do you trust the crust? Today, everything said and done feels unreal Wish I could get a glimpse of yesterday to steal Why don’t dreams ever dither? Then why in reality is it so bitter? prynka nov 06

Halo Hankers…

Weighing the lackadaisical melody of my eternal companion I decided to one day, gaze instead of listen Disproving to myself something of which I was so certain How long does it really take for reality to overturn? I realized that my Atlantis was lost again And a long buried urge in me suddenly stirred I began to narrate my story, I knew, would all be in vain Unaware that my thoughts were out loud and heard. Striving hard to raise my voice above The tumultuous humdrum of an impending catastrophe – ‘Do you hear me when I speak of God and Love? And when I sit before you, all the time, do you even discern me? There are endless questions hidden beneath this smile Can you hold my hand and assure that you will set me free?’ And after listening for a while Said the voice – what a pleasant dream!! And I was cruelly roused from what I realized was not a reverie. prynka july 07

A Tryst with myself

Lost and restless, one night I sat awake Wondering what gives darkness its color My thoughts clouding, I felt an urge to rake And so I began to ponder In my window I saw a beacon As pretty as a monk, as divine as a God I felt my ego weaken As I gazed at what my imagination had just conjured up * What is love, I asked my angel It’s a bird, always out of reach? He said, with eyes twinkling like a jewel It’s a whim, a mirage to only those who seek! prynka