Enough

Jack Ass.

Punching away keys in the hope to rise the ranks in the food chain of the corporate world my mind (as always) was wandering. This time to not exactly what you might describe as a happy place. In my mind I went through the faces of all the people who have come into my life and left me. Just left. Some times they brought their baggage along and I like a host in my culture (Atithi Devo Bhava - meaning Guest is God) welcomed them.
Made them feel at ease. Offered food and shelter and warmth for the rainy days and chilly winter nights. They felt at ease or so it seemed at that point.

And then they left. Leaving the place they called home for a while. They left. Leaving their baggage behind.

 I looked around in my life and saw so much junk. Stories. Incidents. Memories. All reminding me that some one lived here for whom I re-organised my space to make them at home. All staring me in my face asking me one question WHY?

Then I had what one might call an epiphany at what a Jack Ass I had been.


Jack Ass for letting people in.
Jack Ass for re-organising my space and life to accommodate them.
Jack Ass for retaining their baggage.
Jack Ass for wasting my time thinking about them.

I now have decided. Enough is Enough. I am no more to be Jack Ass.

The Veil

Wearing the veil
It strikes yet again
Agony and Pain
Are now the order of the day

The clock goes
Tick- tock, tick -tock
And here again, is the dreadful knock
Appears this time with out the veil

So strong.
So evil.
So harsh.
No words.
No heart.
All malice.
It strikes and strikes.
Till pulp remains
of what was once called a charmed Life.

Sleep

Nestled in the nook of his neck and shoulder

I watch the pale moonlight

Trickle through a mesh of the leaves

To fall on the one, who I love and hold

The moonlight on the perfect lines of his face

The shadow of the leaves falling like silent rain drops all along his body

The calmness of his rhythmic breathing

Take me a to land, where I sleep.