LAST LAUGH

 

And as all of them wrote me off,

Amazingly I had the last laugh.

 

They said you cannot catch up with age,

That made me tell that we both are not on the same page.

 

Catch a few of them young,

Catch them while on the lower rung.

 

I am a late bloomer,

I shall still not be a blooper.

 

I may lose everything in life, but not hope.

Indeed, God has given me a long rope.

Time and I again I rose like a phoenix from the ashes,

To only prove to my naysayers till they got adequate lashes.

 HOUSE TO HOME

Like Osama Bin Laden smoked out of his den,

Like hen driven out of their pen.

They razed down our 25-year-old home,

That which was our life’s epitome.

The builder has promised us a new flat in the same complex,

Time only can see whether his muscles he will flex.

To strengthen the water inflow, they dug a deep well bore,

To our eyes, it was sheer agony that mother earth bore.

A house is built of bricks and cement,

A home is with love and memories that cement.

The relieving factor is the untouched trees and the open well,

That the future always beholds hope and says “all will be well”

Writing my next novel "Choice of consequences" - started it on the auspicious day of Ganesh Chathurthi.  Curious to read it. Well, here is the gist : What happens when a leading actress and a budding young writer decide to marry? Do they have a choice of their consequences or does life dictate terms to them? 

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APRIL FOOL

Don’t wanna money, you FOOL they said.

Don’t know to be happy, you FOOLS, I replied.

I get fooled only on APRIL first,

You get fooled daily, for elsewhere lies your thrust.

I have renounced the world so cool,

I know not if that means I am a fool.

I pursue my dreams, money is just a tool.

Indeed for you, it is your climb up stool.

I rule in the hearts of my lovers,

I like these rejuvenating showers.

To pay taxes till one day prior,

To believe the very next day after.

Was 31^st March and 1^st April juxtaposed?

Was trust and getting fooled , means you stand exposed?

SPEAK

Speak out your joys,

Speak up my boys.

Speak you shall not your problems,

Speak not about your these sour plums.

Speak to people,

Speak not about people.

Speak to the point,

Speak not to disappoint.

Speak only when need be,

Speak so that mostly listeners feel happy.

Speak up for what is right,

Speak up to make others day bright.

Speak once in a while for you too,

Speak so that you need not have to later “rue”.

Light at the end of tunnel

Not an ear to listen to your woe,
Not because I saw everyone as my foe.

I don't mind being alone, but it kills being lonely.
It exhausts you physically when you have mental courage only as your ally.

Lady luck plays hide and seek,
Letting out all stinking feelings that it does wreak.

Repeated failures bog you down,
Realizing you play out to the audience, like a "sulking" clown.

People generally go from rag to riches,
Perhaps I go from royal stag to bitches.

In this dog-eat-dog world,
Intimidates fate, leaving fortune unfurled.

To see light, I have started digging my tunnel.
To me poetry is my emotion funnel.