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Deads never tell the tales, but

  your sense does!

  Moving over the bridge, slowly... silently.

  I think, that is true, 'cause

  if sense doesn't cheat

  perhaps images would.

  I Search...

  When I sit

  Under the moon

  To see your golden eyes

  Looking at me…

  But filled with no love nor even a faith…

  That amazes me even today

  ‘Was there any fault in me ?’

  I ask and search

  But never find the answer…

  Remaining is nothing, only the shadows

  Of those sweet moments

  When I thought you are the one --

  The queen of my dreams…

  Soon illusion vanish, with the memory

  Of your golden hairs

  The time moves and the breeze whispers --‘Awake’

  But in vain, I can’t

  ‘cause still is a hope

  a dream of you !

  Burning Bride

  Everything is not good

  for what you think it is

  but for some look on a distance face

  that peers

  through the unmindful day

  to brought home

  pieces of some familiar snaps

  of the flowers that bloom

  asking a thousand questions

  each recomposing the other.

  In the veil of the red Saree

  “whose is that face?”

  where dance

  the light on the brunt out parts

  on the leftovers of the evil flames,

  “Let her burn, for she is no good”

  you mutter with the murderous heart

  that tempts the failure song

  -- a gone away wish

  in a desert land, over the stones of gold.

  You see the gold, not its fire

  you see the devil, not the evil

  “why so?”

  Each time the day breaks

  you bring home a cloud

  argue in thousand words

  these are the key to dreams

  more solid.

  On the dry rocks, on the grave

  I sit and ponder

  in my weighing skull

  “Why we never think

  what the gold brings

  is a share of good earth

  is but a grave

  where we need to fight a solitude

  and need a caring wish

  left behind by an angel.

  Apprehension

  When I discovered the words

  in the deep corners of my heart

  I knew it was you

  who captured my dreams.

  I never had felt the joy

  the jovial moods

  The dance of the spirit

  which knows no bounds.

  But how long is the magic

  that can be felt

  across the lonely streets

  where I stand ?

  Perhaps, mirages are many

  that heart wishes to own

  But at the far coast of mind

  there is the 'Truth' with its cold looks.

  To warn of something deep

  beyond those words of yours--

  "The world is never

  what you see,

  but what you perceive

  through experience!"

  What, when, which, who, why, how?

  I not know

  What

  Will happen

  When

  I search for the knowledge

  Which

  Helped me to know

  Who

  I am

  Why

  I exist and

  How

  Could I know

  Why

  I do not reach the one

  Who

  Created the world

  Which

  Let us flourish, but alone

  When

  The question rings to tell me

  What

  I perhaps already know at the beats of time

  When

  I gained some consciousness

  Which

  Assures me at the dead of nights there is the one

  Who

  Runs this world, but you can’t ask

  Why?

  And also

  How?

  Because ‘why’ has no end and not lets you reach him

  Who

  Lives and dies for you --- the reason of

  Which

  Is not known --- perhaps meant not be known for the moment

  When

  You begin to ask everything with doubt about someone or something ---

  What

  Is that?

  Who

  Will hear you, if you think there is always a

  ‘why’

  To everything and every cause?

  How

  Would you react if someone

  Who

  Thought you having faith in him

  Which

  Lets you think of him

  When

  You not know

  What

  Will happen next?

  Why

  You try always to ask and not to believe and

  How

  You think you are going to survive in a world

  Which

  Is so harsh

  When

  You need some pity

  What

  Will become of you?

  How

  Will you live?

  What

  Will be your fate?

  How

  Will you live?

  What

  Will be your fate…?

  Have Mercy on White Things !

  Autumn leaves floating

  on the voiced wind

  spreading over the grey canvas.

  A naked tree

  like a skeleton standing on the middle

  with a texture of dark

  and its last crumpled leaf -- lonely !

  Dark is not all -- there is ‘white’

  a dying swan upon the dry earth

  waiting for the last blow

  from the metal barrel

  like thousand others,

  who left their body,

  to serve the barrel headed

  who move over the cracked land

  to quench their thirst, with blood.

  More white spots flew to the East

  more of life, has entered the torture land

  to fall upon the stone claws that

  shove out from the desert bottom. . .

  But life never stops

  and the birds never stop,

  in this hollow land

  nothing ever stops !

  About the Poet

  Samir Dash is one of many modern day young voices from India with a distinct tone in poetry. Software Engineer by profession, he completed his M.A. with specialization in Indian Writings in English Literature. Dash can be reached at https://samirshomepage.wordpress.com

 
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