Love's labour lost; well ... almost!

I wrote this during LPS's lecture! Sorry Prof., just couldn't stop myself!

He loved her like he never did ...
With all his heart and loving soul ...
Little did he know she loved him too ...
With all her heart and loving soul ...

But then came the heartbreak though ...
He didn't know how, he didn't know when ...
All he cared to know was what ...
What happened that lead to it ...

Little did he know she loved him too ...
Deep down her desire burned ...
Yet she kept away ... far away from him ...
'Coz she was afraid ... afraid to admit her love ...

The world moves on, they moved on ...
Went along their paths, taking life as it comes ...
And yet they never forgot their love ...
A love that just refused to die ...

And then by some twist of fate they met ...
When they never should have met ...
And memories came flashing back ...
Flooding her heart with remorse ...

For they could never be one again ...
Just remember they could, their love unsaid ...
For she was here in this real world ...
Looking down at the tomb ... that bore the name that was his ...

Success and failure

"I got it!", shouts the lad aloud;
For his family to hear aloud!

He has won, he's a master of his life;
And now ready for a future of strife!???

And in a corner lies his friend;
No one to help him in this time of need...

For he has failed, failed in a test;
A test he wonders, the test of his life?

He resolves to be the best,
Beat fate at a game it knows best...

It's but fourscore years hence,
And our friend who failed is a winner now;

And chances upon, he, on his long lost friend;
Who is now but his former self!

Hollow success has taken its toll;
And made, a winner, look a fool!

Our friend now can't but laugh;
At a life he had cursed back then!

He now thanks for that moment;
When he was down, yet, not out...

He is now a master of his life;
Thankful for little strife...

This is the cycle of success and failure, he knows;
For he has been through it!; he knows... very well he knows...

Sitting by the sea...

Sitting by the sea, I think of you...
Of the times we sat, alone by the shore...
Of some words said, and many left unsaid...
Of the days and nites, when you were here...
Sitting by me, oh my dear!

Sitting by the sea, I think of you...
Of your childlike face and charming smile...
Looking into your eyes, I lived my life...
And heard the music of a beautiful fife...

I wish you were here, just once more...
So I can hear the music again, and live my life...
Sitting by the sea...
Sitting by the sea...

A new year, a new beginning?

The whole world goes ga-ga over the New Year! Nothing new, considering that the developed world always was this way! ... 'n the developing world was fooled into believing that it was a great deal! So there I go into the streets on a freezing new year's day in Bangalore ... everyone out there wishing each other a happy new year! All tolerable till now; and then it comes ... "What's your resolution this year?" I knew this was coming, happens every year! People have their own stupid notions of the new year resolution.

Tipplers, after a heavy boozing spree, resolve to never drink again! Sometimes I wonder if they even remeber what they had decided the previos nite! And then there's the new breed of uncles and auntys who have jumped on to this resolution bandwagon!! These old men and women, who, never in their dreams have even come closely to thinking about what to do with their lives, now decide to get lean, feed the poor ... What a joke! One look at their dogs; and their bellies; and you know how well they will keep their resolution!

And now I meet this drunk buffoon on the road ... he sways so well, he could give the coconut trees on a Goan beach good competition! He comes across to me ... " Say mate, do ya have a smoke? "
"There's too much of it around", I reply; pointing to the firework induced smoke all around! He gives me a look that says that I better keep my wisecracks to myself!!! I move on...

Auto drivers have a field day. Those poor souls who do not have a vehicle of their own wonder if they are paying for reaching their location or buying it! Effect of the booze, they reason out!

Day after > the entire town's dead asleep! Old timers would have reacted in shock if they saw the young uns' fast asleep till evening, and that too on the first day of the year! But this is the new millenium ... a new year, a new beginning .... maybe!!!

Musings from the past...

"I am writing this letter for you to read later, much later.Now you must be thinking why I was behaving so strangely when you were here. Its coz 1. you came here as * * and so I had to behave as I would with * * friends and 2. coz its been so long and become kinda awkward now. I want you to forget all that happened during those two weeks in * I was stupid and did and said all I did widout thinking of the consequences. It was just that it was too good and I cudnt stop myself from going wid the flow.. which I know was my biggest mistake. So pl forgive me and pl pl pl pl pl pl (sic) move on. And try not to gain mazza out of irritating me (which u wer very good at ;) n remember its not about u, its just that i am in a relatnshp wid sumone who means the world to me, just that i was a lil late to realise his importance. so tcr of urself and remember tht i am always there for u from dis guaranteed frnd fr eternity..."

It hurt .... very very much! ...'n it still does