Stranded…

Far from the madding crowd, I dwelled.

Arrogant and brash, I smirked along

the infallible, convergent road ahead.

Prescience could do me no wrong.

 

Never did I suspect the certitude

I held in autonomy of the mind

rather, swaggered through life with pride,

temerity chanted its anthem behind.

 

This path was born, more of a helpless choice-

when trust betrayed an unblemished soul.

It sought for a placating voice,

but, guttural abyss echoed the call.

 

And presto! here! a boon or bane?

The ego, unable to comprehend, evade…

hapless I stand, it appears insane!

Stranded, perplexity barring any debate.

 

Is it the smile that chose to return?

Or yet another mirage, agonizing pain?

Vulnerable in the paradise, I shiver, I burn.

Set me free, I supplicate within.

REALISE…

Could the marriage of an irrational mind

and swaggering thoughts often left behind,

could the unflinching trust I seem to hold 

in selfishness, unleashed, untold,

could the sanguine awe sans ambiguity enhance

the solitary stupefaction, though so bleak in chance,

materialize the touchstones never defined?

Lest enervated minds would abnegations find.

 

Tiny pebbles let lay the count

with hurdles, vicious, visibly surmount.

Ephemeral fears though taking them far

Incessant tears shall wipe every scar.

Reality – ridiculing the rampant rhymes

Sung in dreams of ambient times.

Yet it endures to sail me through.

Fear of failure, favours few.

 

Deep within the fire, in a fleet of flames,

rises and reaches readied to take to fames.

Need I be dubious where from they come?

Or reasons why its never mundane?

Neither am I am they spell me insane

While wisdom differs, it’s so humane

Sans which akin an army of glass, 

brittle, betrayed, the being surpasses.

 

For reasons unknown, time may crawl

or so it appears at destiny’s call.

Rest shall smoothly sail across

knit dreams then seem despondent, at loss.

Let me not sleep when time still wheels

and set back till the expiry steals.

 

Though weird to minds unclever

wake up O friend, albeit you’ll sleep forever!

Circumvent the regrets, none will arise

Towering dreams that remain, REALISE!!