Marbles

With muffled footsteps across my mind,
Often this thought gingerly peeps in,
We play the game not ever knowing,
When does it end, when do we win?

Conversations never seem to end,
And yet silence always seems to weigh,
Why is it that in the midst of smiles,
Those dollops of laughter have melted away?

Aches the crystal ball, to fall off the edge,
For never unpunished goes a good deed,
To remind you, lest you forget,
That no matter what, the future will bleed.

No new doors left to be unlocked,
Your dreams too sleep behind bars,
Even God's afraid to play tonight,
Look up, there remain no shooting stars.

Smiles sweeten the air, joy erupts,
Yet in the corner, mourns the clown,
Wondering, with a tear down his cheek,
Have we all grown up or died down?

Sealed With A Miss

Tell me dear, would you have the guts to fall in love with a stranger?

There Walked a Lonely God

I balanced all, brought all to mind,
The years to come seemed waste of breath,
A waste of breath the years behind,
In balance with this life, this death.

-W.B. Yeats "An Irish Airman Forsees His Death"

13th Floor

I think I managed to find a room with a view at the Heartbreak Hotel.

Red Earth

The wind will always taste bitter for innocents have been burned,
Will we ever realize that a gift of hate will always be returned,
I wonder, when will we ever learn,
That war sells cheap, but peace has to be earned.

Cold Comfort

Somehow I feel that all these moments are rough and jagged just so that they can fit into the jigsaw of my life.

Lonely Day

Loneliness is heartening 'cause often, it is in the shade of a solitary tree that the most beautiful of flowers bloom...