Midnight Musings

Too long the breath of nights –

As I long for a text

To pour out my thoughts

And hope for a nod

Or a glint or a wink

That at least would feign

The hint of a bond

And lift my eyes from caged unrest

That yearns and waits

For musings at night

Which could my soul

Now soothe and bless

With lips that linger with hope and fear

And voice that hums with rhythm and dance

The dreams that roll in lanes of soul

And promise in blaze the hope for a whole

Beyond this rubble I so long have borne.

The tones then clamour and shout from my cell

The news of FLATS and CARS and SALE!

Musically Yours...

(To Madhavi…for those who know)

The shadows now glisten

And quicken my pulse

As shrouds now shatter

Like clouds in summer

To usher the songs of spring

That sing, through bones and veins

With palpitating strains

And thrall my soul

With calls that gleam

And burst through the seams

Of petrifying times

To dance and dance

In paradisal trance

Till visions and dreams and songs can weave

The tapestry of art I never shall leave

And thus memorise

From eve to sunrise

Her essence that knows no bounds of space

But compacts itself

Into moment’s incense

And resonates in me

With soul and sense

The chimes of stars

That praise and bless:

‘Rejoice! Rejoice!

Rejoice! Rejoice!’.