To withdraw into myself Is an ever-present impulse; I can barely feel these days Only the embers are left; Emotions … More
Category: My Poems
On Losing a Close Companion
A Counsellor at Sparsh Hospice asked me yet again to write a poem addressing those who might have lost their … More
Damn Those Med School Days
I should have quit med school After the first year Coming close to it as I did Dreaming of the … More
Neither Smiling Nor Crying
So far I seem to have traveled That when I survey life on earth I can take neither my head … More
To a Friend Who “Had Not Envisioned a Life Together” with Me
Oh, well, that’s how it is then That you had not wanted To see the sunrises and sunsets With me … More
The Unsayable
Oh, yesterday was yesterday Today feels a bit different Though the sunrise was in the east And the newspaper boy … More
A Big ‘No’ to Reincarnation
I’ll not be tricked again into being born I’ve had enough of whatever life offers No matter how much comfort … More
Rallying Cry for Freedom
O Burqa/Hijab-clad woman What a slap it is on my face Cursed be my eyes From which you want to … More
In Every Human Heart
In every human heart Beating beneath the rib cage Flows that thing called love But the mind channels it Only … More
Laughing Your Way to Enlightenment
Don’t be so glum, you’re already enlightened Whether thy goodself knows it now or not; Whether you fret and frown … More