Just look.....

Just look… (Written in the 1st year of my brother's college, 2000. I actually used to write letters to him (not e-mail and I sent this to him on pretty stationary))

Pretty flowers, in the wilderness they bloom,
Teach us to spread joy and forget our gloom.
Their life so short, they wither away at night,
Yet all day long so cheerful a sight!

The winds that blow, the waters that flow,
Tell us to keep going, when our hopes are low,
Even when our destination we do not know,
Earnest efforts bring rewards in tow.

The mountain that once made the water-fall,
Is now a plain, the river has taken its toll!
The wind did not stop till it laid on the ground,
The great oak that had dared to bar its path.

The sun tirelessly travels the sky each day,
Without a pause or rest, come what may.
That is life for you, a race to be run,
Time and tide – they wait for none.

Sophie. (2000)

The Horizon...

(This was 13 yrs ago...I just found it now.....)

There the sun sets,
There the music stops,
And there everything ends.
The lonliness in my heart rises;
I stand watching the sight,
The sky blending in with the sea,
The sun, the treasure of the sky,
Now half in the waters not high!
I wonder about the partner,
That nature made for me.
Of whom I know nothing about,
Without whom I am quite alone.
In search of whom I move,
Yet I know not where it will end..
The closer I get, the farther it moves away....

Sophie... (1997)

The Query...

Oh eyes! What do you seek?
So listless and oh so meek!
Is it something from the past?
All the times that did not last?
(Or did they even exist?)

Oh eyes! Why do you glare?
Where is the fault, against what can you flare?
Is it the futility of it all?
The sequence unreal, but so real the fall.
(All that for nothing?)

Oh eyes! Why the tears?
So uncalm and so many fears!
Is it shattered dreams and crushed lives?
Or the future that never arrives?
(Will it ever?)