A Little More Than Love

A little more than love

Lives in our hearts;

A little more than hope

Wills us to go on.

 More is the memory

Than the moment

More is the promise

That hangs between us

The moment that you wish to imprison

The thought that you won’t let escape

Some words that choke in your throat

The same your heart can’t help say.

Love, but, happens only this way!

A little more than your entire life,

A little less than eternity

A wait that goes on

A quest that won’t stop…

Despair

The desperate wails of despair,

As shame is stripped bare.

She gathers her modesty

Shrinking within herself;

Holding, the last shreds of dignity.

They stand by, unmoved by her tears

  Showing mute impotence to her worst fears.

Eyes searching for a man among males,

Looks around helplessly, as her effort fails.

No knight, nor a hero to her rescue

Not one proffered hand, much to her rue.

Crouched on the ground,

 Ignominy loud in her muted cries

She sinks deeper, in a dark abyss

As tears abandon her lifeless eyes.

  Unmoved, the men, now move away

Her plight becomes the talk of the day

Inner Dialogues

Slip into my silence,
listen to my thoughts.
Gently,

get into the gap between my thoughts,
and find yourself
tucked in there…
Don’t call out,
don’t even breathe a word
Listen to the voices,
as my thought talks with yours,
as your soul meets mine.

Listen to the silence...
Eloquence at its muted best!

Your Promises

Your promises

 neither broken,

nor met;

Suspended,

trapped in a moment.

My heart tells a story

to my soul each evening.

Some memories relive

by no will of mine

I am defeated by my own

through the tests of time.

I had been stalling

all this while,

all this while!

The DNA of your thought

The DNA of your thought!

What makes you, I wonder!

 Can I place you on a slide

And shove you under the microscope;

 And,look closely at the

cells and molecules

of your being.

Can I open up your brain

And dissect your thought;

Or get inside your palpitating heart

And see if I can calm the chaos.

I keep you under the lens

I trap you in a jar

Toss you out of the window

 or try to shut you out

But,  to my horror,I  find you,

Sneaking in and making home

In my most inappropriate thought!