Dilemma

As a daughter, I always knew I’ll be leaving your home

There’ll be a new place waiting for me, a new road to roam.

I spent all my moments in your home from morning to night,

Please don’t send me anywhere and keep me with you safe and tight.

It’s not easy for both of us to let me go and leave,

Why are you faking your happiness, when I know silently you’ll also grieve.

Now I’ll be going to a new place starting a new life,

Your daughter has become somebody’s daughter-in-law and someone’s wife.

I have my own fears going to the new place,

Your teachings will help me to handle all those fears with grace.

I know I am leaving your place today,

But trust me, you’ll be missed every day.

I love you with all my heart,

And this meagre distance will not make us apart.

All I wish is if daughters can just stay with their parents forever,

But the dilemma is who’ll be creating new families, so the thought is all haver.

Chirpy Bird

There was a girl known as Chirpy Bird,

Full of life always in a herd.

 

She had beautiful wings and used to fly high,

Used to live every dream and never let those dreams die.

 

One fine night she saw a lovely dream,

The zeal to fulfill that dream was really extreme.

 

She almost fought with everyone to make that dream come true,

She’ll be really happy that was all she knew.

 

She knew that this dream will put her in a cage,

But in book of her life, this will be a beautiful page.

 

Guess what, she was happy too,

But for how long this happiness will last, she had no clue.

 

She knew that for getting the dreams fulfilled, one has to pay the cost,

But for this dream, whatever she earned, she simply lost.

 

She didn’t know that the cost is going to be this high,

Nor was she aware how much she’ll have to cry.

 

She was afraid that now she no more want this dream to be true,

But alas! Not even a single person agreed to her point of view.

 

She begged, cried and requested almost to all,

Her requests were denied, and she was asked to act like a doll.

 

She obeyed to them as she always used to do,

Her smile, her happiness she gave everything in lieu.

 

Her wings were cut off and she couldn’t fly anymore,

That pain made her hurt to the innermost core.

 

She simply smiled and didn’t let know anyone about her pain,

Everyone around saw her smile but no one noticed her blain.

 

Her dream was forced on her and she was asked to live it through,

And with that, to her real happiness, she bid an adieu.

 

She is still smiling and fighting through it,

And getting broke from inside bit by bit.

 

She has accepted the challenge for her lifetime,

But her heart has become thick with grime.

 

She’ll smile and sound happy to the world,

How much time it’ll take to gain her real happiness, that vision is still blurred.

 

She wants her wings back and wants to fly again,

She really wants to get rid of this bloody pain.

 

Wish she gets her chirpiness back soon,

Wish she can go to a place which she can call her safe cocoon.

Unplanned Expedition

Was in deep sleep and got woke up by noises,

There was so much of excitement in all those voices.

The people were all ready and set to go for a trip,

But the plan changed with a flip.

Laxmi was out and I was in,

That was an exciting spin.

I woke up just to say bye,

And suddenly I was asked to join and I couldn’t deny.

In actual, only three people were new,

But altogether, group had a language skew.
 

The Unplanned Expedition started early morning,

The feeling I had, was quite adorning.

We dropped Laxmi at his desired point,

He had to let go off the trip for which the efforts were joint.

I was been welcomed with open arms,

But the language they were speaking was as unknown as darms.

Unknown people, unknown routes, but the music made me dance,

I missed a close friend strongly as the music played was Trance.

Crossing the Bandipur woods we reached Masinagudi, our destination,

And that made a start of our small vacation.

We all relaxed a little, took bath and had our brunch,

This trip is gonna be a memorable one, I got that hunch.

Evening we went for jungle safari,

And by the time we came back, it was night n sky was all starry.

Night was the time for camp fire,

Somewhere I missed my gang, but with new friends the sadness reduced to mire.

We all sang loud, danced crazily and we all boozed,

Everyone was having their own thoughts which they mused.

Morning we woke up and got welcomed by an amazing view,

In the imaginary sky, we all just flew.

Went to the river and jumped into the cold water,

The experience was so mesmerizing, wish could stay there as a cotter.

Having had our fun at Masangudi, we headed towards Ooty,

Oh man! The place was so serene so calm and had real beauty.

We all were enjoying without having an idea into what’s coming next,

Got to know that check posts are closed for the day, the looks we exchanged were perplexed.

No one had the grudges though and planned to stay for one more night,

By that time I too had a fair idea, what am I going to write.

Oh before we start our journey back to where we started from,

I think it’s time to tell something about the people I got the chance with to roam.

Will start with Indu who was so obsessed with clicks,

All she wanted was more and more of her selfies and pics.

Krishna was more or less busy with his smoke,

Could get the hint how much he’s internally broke.

Kranthi was always ready with a helping hand,

He would be ready to catch you before you hit the land.

Pridhvi will go to extremes in order to capture the moment at its best,

He would laugh uproariously at his own jest.

Harish, I felt went quite when he really wanted something to tell,
His face was always happy wherein his inner pain was making him yell.

Ganesh is honestly a fatherly figure to me,
I can trouble him fearlessly with all my tantrums and my plea.

 

Anusha, my feelings for her can be expressed in no words,
We are actually the replica of each other, we are equally nerds.

 I could be wrong in guessing the people’s personality,

But still I feel that’s somewhere close to reality.

The characters have been explained so let’s now head back to Bangalore,

We will create many such beautiful memories at least we can hope for more.

With this hope we reached back to our places,

Everyone was happy and tiredness reflected on faces.

Oh yes how I could forget I always requested not to speak in regional language,

The guys simply used to mimic me and again got engage.

Altogether, the trip was just perfect,

With memories having the long lasting effect.

The trip helped all of us in having a good break,

For a while we all were able to forget our entire heart ache.

Though the body got tired but mind got fresh,

We all could meet our souls, living a zombie life in our flesh.

Big thanks to Anusha for taking me to this Unplanned Expedition,

And helping me add beautiful memories into my memory edition.

 

Twist & Turns

I and my friend are saying this since long "Last Year This Time Everything Was So Perfect" but then suddenly it hit me that what is the idea of Perfection.

I agree that last year things were just great, everyone was so happy and everything was alright, however the coming year will be completely jeopardized, none of us had this sight. But as the saying goes "Change is the only Constant Thing" so our lives changed too and now the question is whether it changed for good or for bad.

This year started with all the Twist & Turns in each of our lives. We all gained yet lost so many things at the same time so should we be happy looking into what all we have gained or be sad thinking about what all we have lost?

It was not the meager things that we lost but the loss was of emotions, trust, feelings and relationships. Hence the intensity of loss was much bigger than whatever we gained. How much we all tried to celebrate our winnings but the celebrations were all dull as our alter egos whom we lost in one way or the other were not the part of those celebrations.

But I guess the loss hit us more because of our own expectations and presumptions. Though we knew that expectations will bring frustrations along, still in the fight of mind and heart we gave the chance to heart to win and to lose at the end.

Yet again, it's in our hand whether to enjoy this phase or mourn over our grief and yeah we finally decided to move on and take a step ahead, it was not easy and it could never be as we'll miss those moments but yes we can smile cherishing those memories and sometimes cry recalling those.

Life cannot be perfect anytime, may be it was not the same last year too but the moments spent made it look that way so now we have to start from scratch and if not actually create but at least fabricate the fresh and beautiful memories and find pleasure in the new version. The safe cocoon of past has to be broken and we'll have to find refuge in our new haven and we surely will do it.

This year and all the coming years will be perfect as we'll make sure to fill it with all the perfect moments. Life was, is and will be a mixed bag of all kind of emotions but the strongest of those will be the one which will make us happy, yes we'll cry in our heart and can howl too but that will only make us strong to look out and search for happiness and at the end we'll be happy not because everything is perfect but we'll see the perfection in everything.