Gravitas

HappinessIs not all there isTo life. Smiles and laughterCannot calmThe intellect and soul. There is something elseWaiting to be discovered … More

A Few of My Favourite Things

Of what use Is this world to me Without my mother’s smile. Of what use Is this world to me … More

Amma

I shudder to thinkHow differentTo meThe world would seemWithout my mother in it.

The Power of Thought

Think And The world Is spun Into existence Seemingly From nothing. Give up Thinking To experience Bliss.

Truth, And Nothing But The Truth

Whatever be the religion That I am born into Whatever be the caste Society assigns me to Whatever be the … More

The Great Escape

Please stop the earthI want to step off it nowAnd float away, far awayInto the wide blue spaceAnd hide among … More

We Are All Ostriches

We all knowOnly too wellHow things can go wrongA fetus being stillbornA 25-year-oldDying of a rare cancerA 60-year-oldDiagnosed with Alzheimer’sAn … More

Who Pulls Our Strings?

Try as hard as you may Figure out you cannot Why things happen The way they do Who’ll carry the … More

The Mistakes

Ah, the mistakes I’ve committedTo ask for forgivenessWould itself seemLike another mistakePerhaps it suffices to knowThey were mistakes.

The Longing

Love ain’t enough No, it ain’t enough Neither is reason Nor words of any kind Nor memories fresh Nothing calms … More