Maybe...Just...Maybe...

What is it but a togetherness... Oh! so transient...

Short lived... ephemeral...maybe just circumstantial....

Compared to the likes of the flower and the sun; the moon and the stars...

something clearly not meant to be...nothing substantial....

What is it but all air and all that would soon be water...

All that would remain more apart than together...

What kind of togetherness is this?

Not the one that the lovers gives similes of...

Nor the one friends look upto as an exemplar...

It just is something that keeps the sun and the flower in separation...

Just an unwanted complication... A necessary evil... Oh! what a relation!

Maybe they just bear each other because of their situation...

What a pity! To not have a fate which promised eternal togetherness and smiles...

What a shame! To always just be commonplace amongst duos on which are based so many promised and poems...

But...

Just for an instant... let us stand in their shoes...

Just for a while... let us think differently from the assembly line thought processes...

Just for a moment... let us see the banal and search for the beauty...

Just for a minute...

One realizes...

The charm of this togetherness defies all logics and realisms...

Somehow it seems that they really yearn for this 'togetherness'...

Just for this togetherness that the water rises up again and again into the arms of the air...

Just for this togetherness that the restless air waits patiently...

Maybe when they meet...

They talk about the places they have been...

The things they saw...

How they missed each other...

How they wish they could always be together...

Maybe the refreshing greenery... that taught us what peace is...

Maybe the color-abundant rainbows... that brightens our lives...

Maybe the smell of the wet earth... that enlivens us...

Maybe the happiness that the rains bring nothing but the reflection of the satisfaction of them being together

Maybe it is what bring all the eternities together... and maybe its the basis of all that is today....

Maybe... Just... Maybe....

Maybe the onslaught of floods taught us and them both that their togetherness is defined by not always being together...

Maybe this togetherness is something more than what our banal minds can think of or ever comprehend...

Maybe its something else in itself....

Maybe its how it is the best...

Maybe... Just... Maybe...

(Picture Courtsey: Madhukar Shukla sir)

Maybe...

A veil in front of my eyes...

I walk through life...

Imagining the life around me to be illuminated with wonders unimaginable...

Imagining it to be as promising as it could ever be...

Touching everything with the wonderment of beauty unimaginable... thinking of colors un-thought of...Dreaming about all that's possible...

Thoughts of making the veil translucent...come now and then...

Curiosity to see how things actually are overpowers me just then...

But,the fear of disappointment also lurks near...

Last time I peeped through the veil... it inspired both awe and fear...

Maybe, I don't have the courage to peep again, as yet...

But,

Maybe, I don't want to let go of my version of reality, as yet...

Maybe, the wonders of my world haven't fully unfolded, as yet...

Maybe, my quota of dreams is not over, as yet...

Maybe this world exists because I do... Maybe its not its time, as yet...

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NOTE: The United Nations says an estimated 2,000 unborn girls are illegally aborted every day in India.

In a patriarchal society where we do not appreciate individuality, appreciating it in girls is probably too much to ask for...

But, appreciating life is the minimum a civilized society needs to do... Probably we have decided to prove to our erstwhile colonizers that they were right when they talked about the white-man's burden... that we are hell bent to prove that we are naturally uncivilized and barbaric... that we derive pleasure in killing unborn and newly born girl child...

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A look through my eyes...

Standing before the mirror... looking at myself...
Feeling as if the movie of my life started playing before me to delve...
Think through things without meaning to...Seeing it all bit by bit and yet all at once...
Maybe it was a chance awarded by fate for... an objective perusal ... a chance to find the pattern in the madness... or maybe just a desperate search for balance...

It was all in my eye... all in the rainbow of shades i saw in them... all one by one but yet all at once...
Ebony of the murkiness and gloominess that engulfs me once in a while...
Red of the anger that grips me out of the blue...Anger at myself for the hopeless hopes..weak moments and teary eyes...
Amber of jealousy oh so ill-directed and without a source... But still a part of me who shines on despite locking it under layers of restrain...
Brown of the chocolate always dark and yet so comforting...
Grey like the clouds of rain that bring with them the breeze to dispel murkiness and the silver linings....
Purple of the trust so often misplaced but with a shine of the few irreplaceable jewels in my life...each as rare as a snowflake...
Green of the pastures and life around me... giving me the strength and the faith in the goodness despite the deceit...smiles despite the tears...
Blue of the raindrops letting the dirt be washed and replaced by a fresh hope reflecting the new morning sky...

As I blinked... I wrapped an eyelash around the different shades of myself... accepting them or maybe just accepting myself... As I am... How I am... How I look at things...
As I blinked... I wrapped an eyelash around the world as I see it...