The Infinite Happiness

Kohl lined eyes
While I count the bangles on her wrists
She stares blankly ahead
Across the river, and over me

Crouched lonely
And all I do is stare
At those beautiful eyes
Overlooking me

And I sense a smile
As she recollects the last time
And the time before
She buries her face in her arms

And as she gets up
She shares the smile with me
And her kohl lined eyes
They were made for murdering me

Surrogate Chocolate

I used to be the flavour of the month
Now I am just a substitute for chocolate
I had a clear vision of myself
But I can't see that well off late

What soothed you now irritates you
And you find new things in me to hate
Perhaps the line is thin after all
Or I am just surrogate chocolate

I don't wish to be dark and bitter
And this facade reveals many things
My voice has turned gravelly with time
And no idea what tomorrow would bring

I cant see myself singing now
I am losing my grip on my sanity
I dont wish to be surrogate chocolate
Mirroring dark and bitter reality

The Long Ride Home

-By Mradul and Me


The road is red
With the dust of the sunset
The cloud is dead
From an unchecked blood-let

There is no me
And today there was no you
And i am sick of all this
When there's nothing else to do

I am leaving for good
And packing my empty bag
Sorry for the rain delay
And for the space-time lag

Its the last orange day
And the breeze too says bye
The sky will talk no more
While the leaves curl up and die

Lemon Kiss

By Mradul and Pablo

In my dreams
Your kiss tasted like a lemon
And all I wanted
Was a hard love woman

but to me you are no more
i can see the sea
but there is no shore

There were fake colours in the sky
Which dripped across lazily
The morning was a wet painting
Which set me free

and the night too
wasn't much true
just my sleep fainting
and now I’m a creep

In my dreams
I tasted your warmth
I walked across the sea
And breathed in the calm

and now its the wind
rabid and bland
the tormenting summer
the desert sand

my foot prints were dry
and their outline ephimeral
it changed with the wind
and their paths converged

and there you are again
and the insanity
that umbrella rain
the same old vanity

is it you ?
or something else?
The coloured rain from the sky

Yesterday

A future we have already lived
A gift only for us to give
A torn paper stuck on the wall
A life that's mine to call
A person that I could've been
A place that I could not have seen
A comic touch, a tragic joke
A floating tail made of smoke

Yesterday
It was all here Yesterday
And I saw it all going away
Yesterday

A plastic bag in the wind
A horizon with a sepia tint
The Paper cups and vertigo
A million words that I can show
A day well passed in the life
A struggle with a shadow knife
A tale of horror and romance
A lost chance for the last dance

Yesterday
It was all here Yesterday
And I saw it all going away
Yesterday

A happy soul and no worries
And changes coming in a hurry
A cup of tea no longer warm
A memory to hold in your arms
A time to correct our lost ways
And the chance to do it was Yesterday

Yesterday
It was all here Yesterday
And I saw it all going away
Yesterday

The Twilight of The Superheroes

Take the time to turn around
And look back at what has been
Stepping out of teenage wasteland
And start living in our dreams

The biggest days of our life
Are all scattered in those years
And they've passed by in a flash
Creating our hopes and fears

A time for us to stop and think
And savour the last dance
To take the first step of life
An everlasting College romance

And years from now the best wish
To marry your College sweetheart
With only a chance to finish
And no yearning for a start

We are all superheroes
Without capes, powers or masks
But we all have our regrets
A million unfinished tasks

The twilight descends upon us
And the climax has no war
To fade away and yet to shine
And play our parts in this short tale

The twilight of the superheroes
A time to shed our alter egos
A time to return to the breakdown
And be done with our dreams

Break

I will take one last look at you
Before I walk away again
I will perish in my doubts
And you wont clean my brain
And all the feelings that I had
They wont matter any way
One thing that I am sure about
Is to never forget this day

Cause you
Don't Hesitate to Break my heart
Don't Hesitate you're just playing your part
Don't hesitate in living up a lie
And I'll be this way till I roll up and die

Bitter mornings often told me
That better things were in store
And the banging in my head
Was you knocking on my door
And the thief that I let in
Stole all the things I had
One thing I am still sure about
It couldn't have been that bad

Cause you
Don't Hesitate to Break my heart
Don't Hesitate you're just playing your part
Don't hesitate in living up a lie
And I'll be this way till I roll up and die

Unsigned letters in their envelopes
Are strewn on my table
I wish to send them to you
But I know I am not able
To banish you from my mind
And leave it all behind
One thing I am sure about
There is nothing new to find

Cause you
Don't Hesitate to Break my heart
Don't Hesitate you're just playing your part
Don't hesitate in living up a lie
And I'll be this way till I roll up and die

All Night

I'll tell you sad stories
And dry out your tears
I'll tell you bad jokes
So you know I am here
I'll sing you a song
And I'll make it up along
And all I ask of you
Won't you stay the night?

My dreams would be yours
And your time would be mine
I'll write you a poem
And rhyme all the lines
I'll make you some coffee
And share your cup
And all I ask of you
Won't you say the night?

The ghosts from the windows
Will laugh at our laughter
This time from tomorrow
Knows what we are are after
We can play scrabble
And I'll cheat and lose
And all I ask of you
Won't you stay the night?

I'll kiss your eyes
And wish you goodnight
I'll play with your hair
And close all the lights
When you wake the next day
You'll find me awake
And all I ask of you
Please stay the night

The Love Song

You are the greatest story
That I have never told
You are the warmth I need
When I feel cold

My closest friend
You are my only love
I wanna give you all
But it wont be enough

You are the kindest words
That can be said
You are my peace of mind
My sleep and rest

You are my life
My world and everything
You are the reason I choose
The songs I sing

I love you so
And I know you are mine
You are my rain
And my winter sunshine

The Comedian

'You know how I feel these days'
He said to the Comedian
They sat on the cliff
And he wanted to jump off it

The comedian gave him consolation
'There, there it'd be better'
He took a pebble from his feet
and threw it over the edge

'I think I will stay here'
He told the comedian again
'Its safe although its dangerous'
The comedian cracked a joke for him

'You scare me sometimes, why?'
The comedian said he need not worry
There was nothing to be afraid of
He said he was mostly harmless

She called the comedian afar
He turned to listen to her
And accidentally knocked the other guy
And watched him fall over the cliff

'Are you alright?' he asked
As his gaze followed him
The comedian thought of a punchline
'Oh well, no blood on my hands'

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Four o'clock in the morning
I stand outside my room hallucinating
Waiting for the dawn to creep in
Or to feel the lightness of being

The rush is so relentless
The pleasure becomes much to bear
It makes you itself from within
And you wait for familiar fear

Wait for the tales to flood
And I often pick up my pen to sing
The ink leaves a wet page
Old thoughts it brings

She broke up with me
On the day she loved me the most
So I could figure out myself
What I had loved and lost

She left me for nobody
And there wasnt much left for me
Old friends sitting in a row
Hoping for the rest to free

I turn my empty mind
To know what I had never known
And when its over I stride
On a path others have shown

A choice between life
And The unbearable lightness of being
An easy chance between them
When its reduced to seeing

Four o'clock in the morning
And all those times that she left me
An alternate fantasy to enjoy
And then to let it all be

Finally...Words

I saw her but I didn't see her
While some woman gave a sermon of peace
She was standing next to me
I now wonder Why I couldn't see

I thought of her once again
Sitting on the Edge of the World
And wished her to be there
And it was her voice that I heard

I saw her later on the stage
When she was a backing dancer
Then she reminded me of a song
That I wanted to hear for long

We sat next to a half-empty road
Her head resting on my shoulder
And the stray kisses that she planted
And all I wanted was to hold her

When we walk together
And I take her hand in mine
I know I never wanna let go
And I wish to stop time

A self proclaimed master of words
Now they are hard to come
A feeling few words do justice to
But in time I'll find some

Excuse to Die

He climbed the stony walls
As he planned an escape
This was a home where
He would never set his foot

He climbed the stony walls
To go to the other side
And if he self destructs
Does it count as suicide

If he had the strength
He would put out his own eyes
He didnt want it all
When he saw between the lies

The end is near
There's no reason to try
What he needs is another
Excuse to die

The end is near
Why does he even try
What he's searching for is an
Excuse to die

He was either too weak
Or he was too strong
Stuffed, or Hollow he'd heard
In another tuneless song

He found it in happiness
There were large servings of pain
He saw it as a comedy
It kept him from going insane

He sees the signs of destruction
And he almost sees the end
He cant add to its creation
And doesnt even know when

Fahrenheit 451

Clothed in gray and brown
They formed an imperfect circle
Armed with the fire in their eyes
Reflecting the flame in the centre

They grabbed handfuls each
And waited for the tallest
Who in turn gave no signal
But flung his first from his right

The flame coloured them yellow
And they began awestruck
Pouring their hands over the fire
Feeding the tip of the tongue

Paper burned, immoderately
And they couldnt care less
Of content, type or quality
Only which burned quicker

The Prettiest Girl In The World

I want to write my poems on your hands

To clasp your fingers in mine and never let go

I will dip my hands in paint, green, red, black

And draw pictures and messages on you

I wish to kiss your eyes when they smile

And catch you unaware like I do

That you may lean on my shoulder again

Surprised, happy, closing your eyes to see

I want to take you by your hand and tug

Gently, to throw my arms around you

To bury my face in the side of your neck

And feel your smile in your embrace

To listen to the sound of your laughter

And to pull you close by your shoulder

While you kiss me on mine and tell me

The sensation that lingers for a long time

The prettiest girl in the world

The reasons she's given me to try

My poems written on her hands

My paintings drawn all over her

The Ballad of M and S

-For Absent friends, lost loves, and the season of mists

You are going away so soon
I wish you were here instead
Sitting right now beside me
With these words I never said

Though I could never be so clear
Or be precise or something close
There wasnt a thread of fear
And no time that I chose

And now that you won't be here
With me still thinking about
What can be or could be
And I don't want to be of the crowd

For once, always or last
I wish I knew what to say
And I could still wake up happy
at the dawn of another day

To tell you those words
Or to bid you farewell
To make a small difference
Somewhere in you I'd dwell

Still I take my chance and say
There's a part of you that knows
I want you to be happy,
I love you, please don't go

Killing Time

There's a circle of life and death
That follows no other path but it's own
There are moments you live again
And tomorrow these would also be gone

We inject ourselves with thought
And feed our soul, to keep it alive
How seriously we treat our hallucinations
As our understanding takes a dive

Why do we say that nothing ever ends
When we know nothing is permanent
One after other we offer anti-climax
As our life it slowly pays the rent

We take so much pleasure in killing time
Even time doesn't wait for its demise
It moves on from someone to someone else
Upon no one but itself it flies

Crumpled Paper

Either it's plain frustration
Or another crumpled paper
To lie beneath my desk
A forgotten comic caper

Where is the music
That's part of the song
And is each word I write
Another rhyme still-born

Orpheus had his lyre
And followed Eurydice beneath
I have all my rhymes
And crumpled papers near my feet

Hope was maybe yesterday
And someone closed the hatch
In the graveyard of lost songs
There are none to catch

Sight And Sound

You're so far away

I wonder what you do

I turn on the television

To catch a glimpse of you


I walk along the road

And I see you smile on me

When I look at that billboard

Its your smile that I see


Its just for these walks through the streets

Its just a personal endeavour

Its what I look for when I am all alone

Its your sight and sound that I live for


I turn up the music volume

All my favourite songs are for you

I remember what you sound like

And then I try to hear you


I read these books of mine

And the words together I see

I flip through the pages

To paint a picture of you and me


Its just for these walks through the streets

Its just a personal endeavour

Its what I look for when I am all alone

Its your sight and sound that I live for

Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde

We all got a Dr Jekyll and Hyde
Its something that we hide inside
We all have something to find
Everyone sometimes loses their mind

We pass the time in idle wonder
And rue the things that we ponder
And run with what we think is best
And not know if it's another test

The eyes they pain with much to see
The senses they feel a need to be
The worst in us is under the line
That time keeps on showing the sign

We all turn into Mr Hyde
When its his time to come outside
Its a bitter struggle we are to fight
That helps us pass through the night