Waves

It comes and goes in waves

You can see it like like rain from the comfort of your cave

Only few have the courage to reach out and touch the water.

Most of us fear about 'what if we falter?'

We are filled with regret over the lost chance

But what we don't realise is life will always play the music for another dance.

It comes and goes in waves.

The low tide is safe and comfortable 

But thats not the way to write your fable.

You have to risk the storm and face the thunder.

So what if you get smashed against the rocks

Your spirit is unbreakable it will overcome this blunder.

Your ship is not meant to stay forever anchored at the docks. 

So ride , ride bravely on the high tide

Once you make it to open sea, you will be filled with pride.

It comes and goes in waves

You owe it to yourself to not be fazed.

Don't batten down the hatches,

When the wind comes, you must unfurl your sails

Don't back down when you face rough patches

Your spirit will get you back up when all else fails.

To live a life of comfort is easy

But to live a life worth living you have to get your hands greasy.

You have to burn the midnight oil

Or else this comfort will eventually make your blood boil

So go get out of your zone

You only have to navigate once through the stones.

Once out in the open ocean

You'll know that this was the best promotion

The Bet.

Out of all the things that I regret,

Its definitely not the day we met.

To come up and say hi to you, it was a simple bet.

I have never been more grateful for being sent to a random stranger yet.

Out of all the things that I regret,

It definitely wasn’t taking that bet.

It started out as a random act,

But I was attracted towards your enchanting smile, that's a fact.

Everyday I came up and said hi pretending it was all a part of the bet

But it was all a sham, I just needed a reason to speak to you,

A way to make you fall straight into my net.

Out of all the things that I regret,

It definitely wasn’t breaking that sweat.

Before I saw you that day basking in the sun,

I was a lone ranger, just on the run.

But the moment I saw you, seeing your eyes gleam, 

I knew I had to stop moving, to pinch myself to make sure you weren’t a dream.

I had to come to you, over and over again,

I had to break free of my chain

For how else would I get hooked onto your crane.

I came to that spot everyday, people thought my sanity was on the wane.

For why else would someone do what I did everyday,

When I knew seeing you disappear everyday was the most excruciating pain.

They did not know though, that 10 seconds of speaking to you was a blessing that could outdo any bane.

Out of all the things I regret,

It definitely wasn’t hopping onto your train.

Gradually you also started to expect me there

To disappoint you by not turning up, is a thought I couldn't bear. 

Speaking to you, I started to feel my heart for the first time,

Each moment spent with you was worth every red light jumped, worth every crime.

I learnt your name and what you did for a living,

If this works out as I wish, I know what I will be thankful for each thanksgiving.

So hopefully you be a bit patient with this,

Maybe you could come and join me in my bliss.

Out of all the things I regret,

It definitely wasn’t taking this risk.

Our 10 seconds slowly turned into minutes and then into hours.

Gradually I started believing this world could be ours.

it was a rainy day and yet you stayed there waiting for me,

So that we could communicate better, I asked for your number at half past three.

I got late to work the whole of next week,

Because the nights were spent speaking to you even if the network was bleak.

My conversational skills weren’t that great,

Yet somehow they kept you up till pretty late

Out of all the things I regret,

It definitely wasn’t asking you to a date. 

The moment I saw you walk into the diner,

I knew I had never seen anything looking finer.

You had on a red spaghetti with a denim jacket,

Looking at you all the men could cause a racket.

As you sat down across the table,

Your hair fell to one side and damn, I was part of a fable.

Your sapphire earrings decorated your earlobe,

I was on the most beautiful spot on the globe.

You were wearing geeky spectacles

This made your face look like a magical spectacle

You ordered a pizza and some fries,

It was in that moment I realized that its not always that time flies,

For everything had paused in the back drop of your face,

It was just like in the movies and this was starting to seem like a successful chase

Out of all the things I regret,

It definitely wasn’t being there in that place.

I was a little silent that night.

You talking and me listening, it just seemed right.

We had our dessert, ice cream and cake.

I had to walk you home for my heart’s sake.

The weather was perfect, breezy and cool.

You put your jacket around me and made me seem like a most lovable fool.

We passed each other intermittent smiles,

It seemed as though I could go on for miles.

I gathered the courage and made move well planned,

Subtly bouncing my fingers off your hand.

You took the bait and that moment in time was the equivalent of an apostrophe,

You held my hand, and that prohibited me from collapsing, you avoided a catastrophe.

We had reached our destination across the park, arriving at your door,

The thought of you going brought my heart to the floor.

Though the silver lining was that you seemed just as disappointed as me on leaving,

Anyone who saw us, would see two people on the street, grieving.

As I said goodbye and leaned for an embrace,

Somehow both of us missed and my lips it hit your face.

We split, passing embarrassed grins

Somehow it wasn't awkward at all and I knew I had the win.

I left walking out into the dark,

A smile on my face forming a beautiful arc.

Out of all the things I regret,

It definitely wasn’t taking that bet that landed me at the house in-front of the park.

SWEET SERENDIPITY

Waking up to watch you wake up,

It was like being in the land of the rising sun,

Oh babe, I wasn’t talking about being in Japan,

But surely, I was in my own wonderland.

That morning was bliss

Waking up to watch you wake up, that wasn’t something I could miss.

As you stretch your right hand and open your mouth slightly to yawn,

Oh well that was it, everyday, the most perfect dawn.

As your eyelids lifted and ushered in the light

Looking at you gleam in the morning sun,

It would be futile for me to put up a fight.

Looking at you then, I realised I could look at you without a blink until night.

I knew right then, as you got up and tied your hair in a bun,

I knew right then, there was nowhere I could run.

Nowhere where I would be rid of your beautiful haunting,

So I was all in, even if all this seemed pretty daunting.

So maybe this love will be pain

But I still want to get wet in this rain.

So maybe you have done it all before

But our love, baby, it could be better than folklore.

Maybe you can see this path as one with many fault lines,

That would be true, but it’s going to be a path through the beauty of the pines.

Sometimes it may be stormy, the roof may get blown away,

But I promise, no matter how strong the winds, I’ll hold on to you, i'll look you in the eyes, we’ll sway.

You could be my entire ocean,

Reflecting all of my sky.

I can see you, concocting a most powerful potion.
Just one sip of it, and I know why it’s called the potion of never goodbye.

This tiny moment, a speckle in time

Its changed my life forever, made me come up with this rhyme.

Because you make my fears less scary,

I know if I was ever drowning you would be my ferry.

You make the heights less steep,

You could make an insomniac sleep.

And this is why I need you,

If this were a war, I would happily bleed through.

I would bleed through, just tell me you are the light at the end of the tunnel,

I would make it to you baby, I would squeeze through the smallest of funnels.

Why don’t you and I go on a trip,

Why don’t we run together and slip.

It’s true, it may hurt a little.

But come on, we aint that brittle.

A few falls cannot break us

A mild breeze won’t shake us.

Run with me, with your palms open, I’ll take your hand.

Run with me, we can make this life grand.

You may tell me, that this ship has sailed.

But I would still refuse to believe I’ve failed.

I would chase you across the water

I would swim if I had to, I would swim till I saw your ship, till I spot her.

You may escape to another continent,

But till I reach you, till I hold you, my heart will not be content.

Because I believe this for sure, I believe you are a godsend.

So don’t leave, don’t go away

I will show you all the wonderful possibilities if you stay.

There may be times when I will be wrong,

But each time I am, I promise to write you a beautiful song.

As I watch you this morning, in just your t-shirt , sipping on your tea

I knew in that second that I need to be caged by you to be free.

So don’t run away, come take my hand and run with me.

Come take my hand, hold me, set me free.

So why do you just live your life?

Why do you live your life when you can create it?

So don’t rush to conclusions, when you can wait it.

The act of something dying isn’t a sign of a tough time,

It’s merely an opportunity  to create new life.

So don’t be scared or bogged down when something isn’t right.

It’s just a matter of looking at each strife,

Just a matter of knowing, that between the sunset and the sunrise, there is a whole new day

It’s just that we call it night.

It’s natural to be hesitant

You were not set a right precedent.

But this time its different, its evident.

I will take note of the small things, I won’t be negligent.

So give this a chance,

If you are sick of it always ending the same way

We could do a whole new dance.

Create our own out of tune melody,

We could be our own sweet serendipity.

You Are.

Getting too close,

Getting lost in you again,

You make me lose care for pain

They look at me and question me

They ask me if I am sane?

But you are my way out, my train

The train to set me free

You are my way up, my plane,

You are the ship that will take me from my cell out into open sea.

You are the person I want to see merrily approaching as I look out of my window pane.

Though I don't know who you are or when we will meet

I know you are and someday we will be between the same sheet.

I won't go anywhere if it doesn't lead to you,

You are the reason why my sky is blue.

So fly away with me,

To a world where our souls perfectly align

A world where every night together we dine

and raise our glasses to us, glasses full of the finest wine

That world will be everything to me, it will be my shrine

I hope that one day you will see me and know that you are mine.

Though I don't know who you are or when we will meet,

I know you are and to take me to you I trust my faltering feet.

Seeing you would be a beautiful view

People like you exist in numbers few

They disappear just as fast as the morning dew.

What route will it take to reach you

Thats something I really wish I knew.

I need a marauders map to manage this mischief

I need it to avoid falling off the cliff.

But what difference does it make it make, I am free falling anyway.

Free falling till your arms catch me,

Till your arms catch me and mould my life like a potter working on clay.

Though I don't know who you are or when we will meet,

I know you are and I know when we come together my life will be complete.

I want us to create a memory treasury

Sharing different experiences together

To be caught with you in a reverie.

I want us to drive across the country.

Probably be rich enough to live on a farm with a winery.

Waking up on a Sunday to see you in a bright yellow dress

Walking across the field hand in hand, suddenly getting into a playful fight

Falling in the mud, trying to be overpowered by the other, it was such a beautiful mess.

Though I don't know who you are or when we will meet,

I know you are and I know you will teach my daughter how to make that perfect pleat.

I want us to walk for miles,

Hand in hand, beneath the street lights

Talking about life, giving each other smiles.

Its not like I am unhappy without you,

But I want you to enjoy my company

I don't want my aura to go waste

I don't want to live this life in haste

I want you to come and slow it down.

I want us to create little legacies

I want us to march together into the late nineties.

I want us to grow young with each other

To share amazing memories with our daughter and her brother.

I want to see you in a white dress with a tear in my eye

Watching you watch me as we say our vows

Watching you watch me as I say most meaningfully "wow".

You are the rope out of this abyss,

The climb that takes me to eternal bliss.

My lips are parched, they long for your kiss.

My palms are reaching out for your waist

They want to lift your feet off the ground, they cannot wait.

And if you can recreate me like I think you can

Then it will all be according to this enchanting plan.

Without you I am setting traps for no one and stepping in them myself

So why don't you come along and take my life off the shelf.

So as you try to start stating reasons to our fate of why this would not work

I put my hand to your mouth

There is no way I see this going south.

Though I don't know who you are or when we will meet,

I know you are and when our fates decide we can climb a new feat.

As I make a little sense of you moving forward along the lines of fate

I need you to come into my life now, I need to see you, believe you are real

I need to believe you are real, I need you to break that gate.

So I am letting you go that I wasn't ready for you earlier

But now I am waiting for you with arms wide open, So please send me that courier.

Why don't you just come before my eyes, its about time

Give me something to reinforce my belief that you exist

So come before my eyes before we run out of time,

So come, become my dash of lime.

Though I don't know who you are or when we will meet,

I know you are and I know we will be a treat.

So save me from me

Together lets climb that tree,

Lets make this life full of glee

I look forward to the day I finally see you.

I know you are around so the wait is to just open my eyes

I must do it soon for we both know how fast time flies,

So wait for me my dear, as I have waited for you,

Wait, wait till its just us two

Wait for me as I am on my way,

Today the wind, towards you has made me sway

I am looking for you in the crowd

Just look up, maybe I am a passing cloud

Maybe, just maybe today is the day I pour myself on you

Maybe, just maybe today is the day its just us two.

For I don't know who you are or when we will meet

All I know is that you are and to take me to you I trust my unwavering feet.

In Shadows and Light.

My paradise is right by your side,

With you I broaden my stride.

Looking for your house I found my home

With you even a small town is as majestic as Rome.

Now that you I have found,

All difficulties have fallen like dust on the ground.

Now that you I have found,

I feel like a King who has just been crowned.

Looking for your laughter is my ambition,

It made happiness my unexpected nutrition.

Seeing you smile is my soul’s ignition,

Just being with you could make one a poet or a musician.

You could make all my plans come to fruition

Love is much more exquisite in your rendition.

With you, life is always in smooth transition

With you, sorrow is always a necessary omission.

Sitting on the roof on a starry night,

Reading our notes to each other from years past,

Reflecting on that time when we didn’t see each other for a fortnight,

Finally I had to hitchhike 700 kms to look into your sapphire blue eyes atlast.

For then I could wait no longer,

I needed to see you to feel stronger.

Or the time when we walked 15kms home just because we wanted to spend time together

Just because we wanted it to be our little forever.

Its like the moonlight has cast a spell on your face,

I think your blood cells have been replaced by fireflies.

For your skin is glowing like ember ,

You are that flame that can make my heart feel like summer even in December.

You are that fire in my soul that refuses to go out,

No matter what the odds, always ready for another bout.

So come and set me up in flames,

So come, lets play no more games.

With you by my side I am not scared of the fire,

Without my by my side the situation is far more dire.

With the blue light of the moon falling on you,

With your skin glowing with a reddish hue,

I get lost looking at your vast lips

I don’t even have time to notice the curves of your hips.

Your sapphire blue eyes mirroring the moon,

Just your existence in my life is making me swoon

A strand of hair is wrapped around your curving earlobe,

The cold has made the tip of your nose a beautiful strobe.

As I look at you smiling by my side and twitching your eyes a little whilst reading our notes

As I look at you I want to thank my stars,

So as I look at you I say to you, “Thank you”.

You are the most majestic sight I have seen,

No one can match your aura anywhere I have been.

So I wish this night never passes,

I want to stay in this moment with you till I am old and have glasses.

I could make this roof our paradise,

Without you my heart is a useless device.

For blood it may pump,

But without you it leaves my soul in a slump.

Seeing you is the good news I need,

It can make any day brighten up no matter how many tears I bleed.

So lets stay in this night for eternity,

You are the sole member of my fraternity.

I look at you and I think of wonderful things,

If only you had any idea of the joy your voice brings.

I want to stay with you in joy and in plight,

I want to stay with you in shadows and in light.

So come lets pillage each others soul

For finding pure bliss with you is the only goal.

So come.

When I see you my knees go weak

With you the future is a little less bleak.

With you I am a little more comfortable being a freak.

Together we complete our own clique.

So come, lets take each other's hand.

So come, lets travel to a distant land.

You and me, we can build our castle in the sand.

With you a routine life becomes grand.

So come lets make each other better

Together lets rid ourselves of these fetters. 

So come, lets take each other's hand.

So come, lets travel to a distant land.

I want to pamper you with random gifts.

When I see you my mood just positively shifts.

I want to pop up at your place after every fight.

I don't want you to go to sleep mad  for even one night.

I want to see you smile everyday

Even if I am a thousand miles away.

So come, lets give this a chance.

So come, all I am asking for is one dance.

I want us to share all our tales.

Our successes and our fails.

I want to spend nights talking,

Drinking bottles of wine

Hand in hand, under the street lights on empty paths walking,

Looking at each other we would know we wound up just fine.

So come, lets trust each other.

So come, lets love one another.

I want us to take trips together, 

Driving without a destination,

Lets get on the road to forever,

Lets make this life our vacation.

With one hand on the steering and one in yours

I know together we have all the cures.

With Sting playing in the car,

And you humming to it with your aviators on,

The wind is ruffling your hair,

But somehow you just don't care

Its covering your eyes a bit,

So you wrap it around your index put on a wry smile and clumsily play.

Looking at you I think, oh what a beautiful day.

So come lets complete this never ending voyage.

So come, lets always be on the same page.

For this story is ours 

We can take it wherever you want darling, on this Earth or even on Mars. 

I want to Netflix and chill with you.

I want to share all of life's thrills with you.

I could binge watch Narcos with you,

I could binge a pizza from Marco's with you.

I want to spend hours reading books with you

I want to camp beside brooks with you.

I want to spend time in silence with you.

You doing your thing me doing mine,

It would be perfect for a weekend deep in the pines.

So come lets roll a J and fly together.

I promise if things go wrong we will try together. 

So come, let me get the door for you.

So come, let my lungs go sore for you.

Let my heart beat for you.

Let me share sheets with you. 

I want to see you every morning when I open my eyes

And if the truth is too boring,

Then let me tell you sweet harmless lies. 

I want to see you every night before I go to sleep.

I want you to put your head on my shoulder while you weep. 

So come, let me get the door for you.

So come, let me put one knee on the floor for you. 

You are the best thing thats happened to me.

You are the one that set me free.

With you life is a beautiful dream.

Its like waffles with whipped cream.

I have never felt this elated,

I think our meeting was fated.

So come, lets take each other's hand.

So come, lets travel to a distant land

Silhouette

Meandering in the moonlight,

On an empty street in the night.

My mind wandered back to you,

Back to when it was just us two.

Why did you have to cut and run?

I always thought of you as the one

Together we were toxic in nature,

We were not  a pleasant caricature.

Now I am here in this crowd all alone

Now you are there and to you time has shown.

That it is where we belong

Even though it feels so wrong.

It is clear to me that the love that once was

Is now nowhere to be found within me.

Yet there is a longing for you.

It may be true that lovers cannot be friends,

But what if they aren't lovers anymore?

Does there have to be animosity till the beating of our heart ends.

Your place is as pristine as it ever was,

Just on it a different light falls.

You may not think of me nor I of you for those 3AM calls,

Yet in the happiest moments when all my closest friends are at my side,

I look for your face within frames on my walls.

I know you wonder of me, you know I wonder of you.

We may or may not have different people we love now.

But the arrival of one does not have to mean departure of the other.

Why do you make it so tough to stay friends,

When clearly our minds and hearts with each other perfectly blend.

You get me and I get you,

Then why rob ourselves of the peace, our hearts which can mend.

You may not be the most special person in my life

That position is now among many shared.

But make no mistake that your absence is felt at every strife

Your embrace is missed at every smile

Your shoulder is missed after every hard mile.

Let's not pretend that returning to a friendship will ever be easy

But it's not like this is any different.

That love isn't there in me and for all I know its the same for you,

But there is love, a different kind it may be

I think its enough to set us free.

So let go of the habit of the old

Its holding us back from being friends like shining gold.

Let go of the habit and getting used to of being together only in a certain way,

Let go of our egos so that we may see the light of a beautiful day.

Life is as short as the bend of a mountain river

Alone we will wither.

Come let's look out for each other

Deep down we still want the best for one another.

Over these years we have seen each other grow,

So why can't we help each other glow.

Our light will not fall on each other

Yet it will illuminate our life and help us come out of any low.

We still care,

Yet to be in each other's presence we cannot bear.

This is the conundrum of our lives

To have hearts with love and hands with knives.

Soon you will be a shadow in my mind

Soon the windows of my head will shut the blinds.

We may have lost love but why do we have to lose friendship

The most important boat in life is companionship.

Why do you spew venom on my days?

When we can sit together for a beer, talk about life and stargaze.

Yet to have a peace in your mind is also important.

To have a life with some consistency  and less extremes is also important

There is no point in putting each other through hell every second,

Its better to let this fade away right to the very end.

I wish you well and I wave goodbye to your image in my head

You're now nothing more than a memory from the past,

I do not miss our love,

Yet the happy images from our friendship will last.

Now you are a silhouette and nothing more,

Right until life's ocean washes you up to the shore

Right till our paths cross once more.