FAREWELL

If I bid you farewell

Finally letting you go.

My tears camouflaged

Like a dried-up river’s flow.

If I unshackled your soul

Setting you, forever free

A new flight, a different world

A new nest, a different tree.

Horizons - blue, alluring

Flocks calling out to you

Magpies, swans, sparrows

Blackbirds and cuckoo.

If I unshackled your soul

Setting you, forever free

Would you still remember?

Would you come back for me?

                                               (Anurag)

A POET'S QUILL

Let me sleep a night

Of a million shattered dreams.

Let me wade through waters

Of desiccated streams.

Travelling across deserts

Sans any mirage.

My eyes - dry and bleary

Crumpled and filthy visage.

Love me not, nor hate me

Neither do I seek.

Lost in a world of make-believe

Of solitude I reek.

Sustaining on a diet

Of perverse and twisted passions.

Committing another crime

Conjuring up new confessions.

Take away my worldly assets

If you find any.

Deprive me of my daily bread

Throw away the honey.

Snatch not from me, my quill

And the pot of sanguine ink.

In the raging sea of verses

My jaded soul shall sink.

                                  (Anurag)

AUTHOR

Do I have it in me?

To be an author, again

Revisit the trials, tribulations

The trauma and the awful strain

To let a new-fangled plot

Impregnate my fertile mind

In order to conceive

A creation, one of a kind

Patiently wait for the ‘D’ day

Through  winter, spring, summer and rain

Endure the ordeals of labour

And the excruciating pain.

Striving to catch a glimpse

Of my baby, my newborn

Hoping that she is healthy

Unblemished; pretty like a swan.

When she ventures on her journey

When her ability is put to test

Deep in my heart, praying

That she is a cut above the rest.

Brooding at her losses

Rejoicing at every gain

Do I have it in me?

To be an author, again...

                                                     (Anurag)

THE BLEEDING SKY

The night, the sky bleeds blood

Colouring the world in a ruddy hue

The stars shuddering with mortal fear

The moon fossilized, taking a cue.

I will carve my pounding heart out

My passions on display for you to inspect

The chambers brimming with affection

A bit of adulation, loads of respect           

The tears I shed will all be yours

My sonnets, reaching only your ears

Recounting a story long forgotten

By my dearest, over the years

Till the night, the sky bleeds blood

Colouring the world in a ruddy hue

Let my eyes convey the message

Affirming my timeless love for you…

                                                (Anurag)

SEND ME SOME RAIN

The stars shine not,

The moon a blur, a stain

The flowers blossom not

Withering under autumn strain

The eyes smile not

The brows hiding a pain

The hearts love not

Compassion, they feign

The souls glide not

Ensnared by an unseen chain.

Let’s all start afresh

Let’s learn to love again

Forfeit the past, the shadows

To repent would be in vain

Let despair be vanquished

Let hope and felicity reign

Let’s pray for an angel

Let’s crave for some rain…

                                  (Anurag)

R.I.P.

To lie down on uncut grass

Resting under the shade of a tree

Savouring  a few moments of leisure

When my weary soul is wanton and free.

Isolated from the sea of humanity

Away from the cacophony of voices

A crooning cuckoo, somewhere around

The rustling of leaves - the only noises.

A canopy of clouds, a gentle breeze

A few showers of rain to follow

Filling up the pores of my empty life

Withered, sunken and essentially hollow.

No friend to love, no foe to hate

For solitude and peace, I crave

A mirage, a distant dream it seems

I guess, will have to wait for my grave.

                                              (Anurag)

A BREW CALLED LOVE

Let  LOVE  be  the  brew,  let’s  all  impart.

 For  a  saga  of  love,  or  a  broken  heart.

For  a  sad  farewell,  or  a  promising  start.

For  a  life  lived  well,  or  one  taken  apart.

For  an  angel’s  kiss,  or  a  poisonous  dart.

 Let  LOVE  be  the  brew,  let’s  all  impart.

                                                          (Anurag)