WHEN .....

When heart fails to grasp

How can the mood be voiced?

When eyes fail to recognize

How can the beauty be known?

When thoughts fail to emerge

How can a lyric be composed?

When words fail to come

How can a song be sung?

When defeat stares at me?

How can I surge ahead

And when time calls it a day

Can anyone stand against it?

Fickle mind itself is the culprit

Which roused wish after wish

Knowing well, the world itself

Is impermanent and illusory. 

Since childhood

I had but one companion;

It’s my day-to-day struggle

For survival midst humiliations,

And, it’s the very shadow

That follows me even today.

Dejection is neither new

Nor is the agony I silently bear;

These thorny and endless paths

Still I keep walking

How far should I walk still?

Is the question keeps hunting.

Yet, I adore with humility

The fortunate ‘human life’.

But, heart fails to grasp

The internal voice of the world,

Memory too fails to realize

The peaceful nature and its beauty.