Sleepless dreams in the night
Clueless hopes in the day

Moons apart in the night
Stars unseen during the day

A lonely bed in the night
An empty road the next day

So many nights and so many
days.....................

Winter like a leafless tree
Summer like drought in the pond

Winter with unhappy teas
Summer with unquenched thirst

Winters spent on sad notes
Summer on rhymeless songs

So many winters and so many
summers...........

On a summery night and on a
wintery day

I ask u

How many more nights and how many
more days?

How many winters more and how many
more summers?

Radhi

Solitude

One day I was walking alone,
Looking up at trees beside,
Listening to the chirps of birds,
whispers of the insects.

The fine breezing moving across was so soothing.
Everything was so right,
Solitude seemed a joy then.

Just then, by chance I turned back,

All those noises, that chaos, those not yet healed wounds I left behind came craving for me.

The same solitude became loneliness.

The chirps and whispers became jibes and insults.

The soothing breeze became a tempest alls et to take me into its whirlpool.

The happiness was no more,

Emptiness replaces contentment

Unable to get away all hassled I was,

Then I saw a hand waving at me

I knew this was of a person’s who would accompany me on my path to survival.

This junction I realized

I am so lucky to have you, to have met you, to realize how much I love you
and now to be able to express it to you.

HUMTUM

Need, you said was what leads to a relationship,
Love, I said was what ignites the spark;

Love, you said arises to satiate your inner urges,
Urge, I said is born only when you love a person;

You believe in no love and
I think it is the ultimate truth;

Friendship, you say is non existent
I say it is the most self giving association;

Things can be seen differently I conclude,
What changes are the terminologies I realize;

What I define as love,
You call humanity;

What I call attraction,
You call it mere human tendency;

I know now it means the same when I say “I love you”
And when you say “ You are interesting”;

Let me propose something,
Let’s be partners!
Neither friends nor fellow human beings.

Neither in love nor detached,
Neither the same nor the opposite;

Lets be two parallel lines always close by
But never intersecting;

Let’s be partners, share lives
Celebrating our differences!!!!

Radhi

A day in life

You wake up in the dawn,
find its walking towards a disastrous noon.

When you feel nothing’s going right and that
everything is moving out of your sight.

When you feel every act of yours mars on your aspirations,
When you find yourself in a heap of separations.

When you feel every sincere effort of yours crashes to the ground,
When you everything is moving round and round.

When you feel you are developing isolation towards the world,
When nothing seems to attract you not even gold.

If all these things are happening to you my dear friend,
I present to you an answer to your queries, in the form of a hopeful ray
Just have a cup of coffee and go to sleep the rest of the day

JRad