When Mind Resonates

Destiny is unknown - But destinations are predetermined. I wonder of each passed moment, The precisely set scenes Just played like a puppet! Nothing was ever an accident, Nobody was incidental being in life; Good, bad and worse were moments, Destined to be lived. It is not what life has given you, But how you wish to live the life, With gratefulness or resentment? That gives meaning to life. Every moment of darkness preceded By the definite light. Every moment of drought followed By the definite pour and petrichor! It's not about what you become, But what you mean to a handful of people. It's not about achievements, But about knowing how much you owe to many beings around. Sometimes life overwhelm you  With the wonderful bunch of people, You wonder of how much you are cared, Being the most miniscule of being! Yes, there are problems to be resolved, You are being equipped with the array of angels… The treasure that's of incalculable value! Every mourning turns into a mesmeri...

                                      I am asked to write pleasant, I do try, but I get derailed on my path. I am sobbing, even though I try not to… The young doctors and nurses succumbing While putting oneself at risk- Send tremors through me. How long would I stay mum and neglect- And pretend not to acknowledge the swelling emotions? It burst as I skimmed through the news- The young vibrant man, Hemmorhaging to death in the same building, Where he walked relentless and untired, Where he would have smiled and lifted the spirits, Gave warmth with his consolations… Losing a compassionate being who would have- Lifted lives from miseries of illness… I remember my friends who risk it- Fearful of affecting babies and grandmas at home; Still go ahead with their mission they chose. It’s not another job, but a calling to fulfil, Where life around seem more precious than one’s own! Shoul...

We walk through mysteries, The unknowns drizzle in our path. We walk as if through woods, Calm and serene superficially Though it has its own voice Which is the subtle murmur in silence… We try to decipher the puzzles, Forgetting that some are to be revealed By the master revealer - 'time', And we are to wait, just wait! And some are never to be revealed, But to be concealed forever. Every moment is not to be resolved, But to be lived. Sometimes you just need to believe, And believing without knowing Makes you embrace life as it is, With all the charm and charisma- As the sun seeps in through the canopy shy, And with all the mystery - the woods Allure us and persuade us to walk more… Enigma of life persisting all along.

I used to have this episodes of pain Which sometimes culminated in a collapse, Being in hospital campus, made it easy For my wonderful colleagues to just  Swiftly move me to the emergency… When those episodes arrived,  The first one to be called up by friends Would be the 'doc' friend; Who would run in from his busy schedules, It was mutual mental satisfaction. He would start with ridiculous casual remarks And I would laugh in excruciating pain and breathlessness, He remarked once: "you know, You need to get a tattoo done" It was in the midst of one of my laughter bouts, "You should do it between your nose and lips" My eyes were larger and in a questioning mode, As he continued: " it should read: 'please close the mouth, I'm dead'.  I'm sure you would die in the midst of laughter one day" I would rather be happy to die like that. He is one of the compassionate doctors, I have ever known, The quality I  find extremely wonderful. Said...

Death, an inevitable event  In a living being's life; The sure event to happen, Just that the moment is unknown. Everyday you are walking towards it, The existence beyond life explored, The reincarnations, splitting of soul; Journey towards meeting soul-mate… The life after death, the living in fourth dimension, The unexplained phenomenons have haunted humans, The hells and heavens dictating life's rewards… And we forget that paradise is amongst us. Life is like a rain that drizzles, Tickling the senses with petrichor, And pours, with the heaviness of thunders, And sometimes with the marvellous lightnings, Raining through seasons… Drifting through landscapes- Mountains, valleys, deserts,  Mangroves and the rainforests... Finally curtails and trails off… Like the mountain that fumes before the rain, As my friend enlightened me once. It does bring heaviness-  When you lose someone to death, It's being human, we can't fight death, We can fight this life though. We can smil...

Sometimes I force myself to admit That I have grown up, For me the school days seem like yesterday, The heavy rains remind of the lazy days When I would pray that school says it's a holiday, Just to be in vain… Rain was always part of life, We endeared rain… And memories of school and stupidities And the random mischiefs 'under cover' Still 'under cover' pops up… The candy powder that crackled in mouth, Like a firework with orange tang! I tried hard to remember the candy's name, I texted bosom friend, now an executive in the oasis of Arabia, Who had generously introduced us to it... He replied and said, I had to Google it! It was a forgotten memory… A few days back a friend called and said- We should have been in college always, Shouldn't have grown up. Those days were like the crackling candy, Sweet, tangy and exploding like fireworks, With the tinge of goodness and mischief! Rain and memories, so intertwined… And they ask, O, you love the school so much, Y...

It's still pouring heavily, I sat on my window side cot Head resting on a giant pillow- The pillow who knows more secrets than any! It's dark outside, the road lit by street lights, I watched the rhythmic fall of rain drops, Forming coalescent tiny ripples in the river... The flies buzzing around the street light, The short-lived beings dancing off their lives… I, re-gurgitating uninvited flash of memories, Incoherent random memories! My eyes fill and tears roll, I blame the self, allowing it to happen! Still watch the rain with watery eyes... Why does the past has to haunt so bad! The more I feel recovered,  Just realise to dwell in the depths of past misery. Philosophies and self-consolations go in vain, Oh rain! My friend, through my Mischiefs to stupidities to helplessness'… I do cling to you for strength. Hey, my self, gather courage, Put on that smile, Beat the rhythmic rain with your cacophony… Let the uninvited rage of memories, Be bashed up by the laughter... Just ...

The rain is pouring heavily, Watching the crashing stream of rain drops, Me, pondering of being a seer or stupid! I started being perplexed of my intuitions, Sometimes I feel I shouldn't have acted upon, And at times I feel I can't run away from my 'being'! I choose the moments and decide, Which roads to be walked towards destiny… Unknowns always await, So is uncertainty. I'm ready to embrace the world as it is, If the world denies me,  I would take that; And if it embraces, so will I. I know, I learn every moment, And I gather more courage to believe In me, myself and my 'being'. Though there is a constant pull Towards the usual 'normal'! Let it thunder, I would take it, Let the lightning spark, I would take that too, And sometimes the world go silent,  The silence prior to the existence of universe! Who am I to judge the world… World moves in its own pace, So do I, nothing to prove! Just walking the chosen ways  Leading towards my destiny… I contin...

Every other day brings realization Of how less I know, And how much more is unknown! The more I read, the more I watch- The more I know that 'nothing' I know… Inconspicuous me getting infinitesimally small, And the nature, thoughts and wisdom, Stand as giants, with incalculable- Depth, girth and height! I sublime and spread as invisible fumes, I wish I were fragrant as a just bloomed lotus, I wish I were warmth when it chills, I wish I were comfort in silent inner sobs, I wish I were companion in solitude, Invisible and invincible… I still seek wisdom,  I know I need to be innocent to imbibe it, I'm afraid I lost it somewhere- When I was fighting odds, When I was transforming from naive to known… Still I seek, as invisible fumes, To get spread and lost - In the subtleness of universal consciousness, Which is the nothingness- Still the substance of everything!

I remember you, every now and then, I hold breath and have a silent prayer, I wish that you are safe and sound, Years have passed and the seasons have changed, I have too, a lot, I suppose you would be proud of me, And would have hugged me tight, And told, I did the right… The moments of love, laughter, Stupidity and mischieves we shared, The thread of beautiful friendship That we knitted in bright reds, yellows and purples… The sweet comfort you showered Even on my untold wounds, The abuses you blurted on my behalf; 'Bloody Morons' you would say… It had comforted me somehow, And knowingly you put yourself, Into the hands of 'morons', You vanished, never to be met again, I had been to your city,  And wished that I would stumble upon you, No, we never met again… I miss you my friend, I truly hope that you still live as 'you' The generous, the mischievous, The foodie, the brilliant, the loving, The charming, and the inexplicable much more…

The baby had stopped moving, It was almost four hours, I was at the mid of my third trimester, The journey was painful with pseudo-pains, And extreme muscular pain all over… Beginning with complications, Followed by conserving medications… And neglecting my pain, I was in kitchen that day, And the baby was not moving, The previous experiences of pseudo-pains, And running to the hospital had bored my father, He was reluctant for another drama, Can not blame him. I walked, drank hot water Then cold, then sweet- No, the baby was adamant… Finally, my father gave in, We went to hospital, In labour room- still no movement, And they induced me with pain, I was afraid, though I recited what I saw on a wall; 'you are taken care of' And the nurse said: 'the baby's heartbeat is going high' I continued my recital; The pain was surging, The doctor said, we should go for- An emergency C-section, I agreed instantly, I remembered my dream, Where I saw a girl child in ribbons In a n...