Thursday, August 19, 2010

letter 3- To Happiness


Happiness!
I have watched you sleeping
your breath floating
with the rhythm of your dreams.

Somewhere around you are stories
guarded by wizards,
dragons and time machines
The first story you read to me
was of a Chinese magician in an Indian book

Somewhere around you kittens play
and a betel nut rolls
They attack old strings,
large shoes and the flying curtains
It is said cats know where secrets are kept.

From somewhere around you I watch.
your fingers sometimes twitch
sometimes silence wakes you
the noise of my fears, of a blind heart
the fear of going blind!

Saturday, August 7, 2010

Frame



The pictures
that you took last winter
and the years before,

I left my
fingerprints on them,

All this while
did you happen to notice?
that i haven't rubbed them off!

There were some pictures
that I stole
from your neighbours,
some I stole from stories,

In all
you searched for me.

Still
there are others
that you put on your walls
many swaying under weight

Of them
some I had played with once.

In this
museum of memories
I have often mixed my pictures
and left them alone to speak

Only that, they
never heard from you.


Monday, August 2, 2010

Letter 2

Dear dream
still everyday
i kiss your eyes
then the corner of your lips
and talk to you of my shades.

I come to you like salt
with lust
and find you in blurred colours.
I come to you like silver
with truth
that pierced my skin as well.
I come to you as milk
innocently trying
to find a heartbeat in your core.
I come to you as moon
naked with my flaws
to be perfect in you.
I come to you as satin
just plain
choking million breaths

Dear dream
I come to you in a white shirt
wrinkled
and several sizes large.
Put me to sleep, now I am only white.