With deep respect for Sir Lionel Richie and even deeper love for his masterpiece ‘Hello…’ it’s just an attempted lyric as my version of the song. And I know there is hardly any chance that it will ever reach him. But I can’t just stop singing it all by myself in the tune of the earlier one….

Hello, Please Let Me Know…

 

Hello, can you please just stop by

Just for a moment; for a little while?

For I want to breathe again

In the beauty of your smile…

I can feel you in all my dreams

I can feel you through my inner streams

Even when I pass through the passers-by

My eyes always keep searching you.

 

I just wonder if you feel

I just wonder if you care

Someone somewhere feeling lonely,

Someone loving you...

 

Hello...I’ve got to let you know

With all my feelings flowing out

I can’t stop just loving you…

I just want to let you know

With all the lights fading out

I can’t stop just seeing you…

 

I keep searching in your eyes

I keep searching in your smiles

To see what I ever want to see

If you ever feel the magic

The way I feel for you…

 

I just wonder if you feel

I just wonder if you care

Someone somewhere feeling lonely,

Someone loving you...

 

Hello...I just want to let you know

With the Moon in its beaming glow

My heart is drowning slowly

In the flow of loving you...

And I wonder with all my soul

If you ever care to know

Someone missing you so deeply,

Someone loving you...

 

I just wonder if you feel

I just wonder if you care

Someone somewhere feeling lonely,

Someone loving you...

 

Tell me what I’ve got to do

Tell me how I’ll let you know

How I feel you in all my dreams

And how I can't stop loving you...

Can you please somehow let me know

If you feel those crimson pains

If you feel those summer rains

The way I feel them by seeing you…

 

I just wonder if you feel

I just wonder if you care

Someone somewhere feeling lonely,

Someone loving you...

 

I just want to walk by you

Along the dancing of monsoon rain

I wanna greet you with the drops of Moon

And the kisses of the winter Sun

And I wanna greet you in every morn

Just by saying…I love you...I love you...

 

I just wonder how you feel

I just wonder if you care

Someone somewhere feeling lonely,

Someone loving you...

Hello, can you please just stop by,

Can you please just listen to me

With the words falling heavy on me

I’m feeling so breathless

I’m feeling so lonely…

© Atique R.

Riding on the Drops of Moon

 

Drizzling down the petals of flowers

Brushing aside the trails of clouds

Who you came floating,

Bringing down the searing soul

Into the dancing of raining…

 

Ushering in the autumn blast,

With the unison of the color fest,

Who you came floating, dear

To lighten up my dormant dreams

In the music of the raining …

 

Painting the frozen sighs of winter

With the magical charms of the spring

Who you came floating

To take my enchanted soul

Away on an eternal ride

On the drops of Moon,

Leaving my body

Stuck into a blue lagoon,

With love, promises and the pain…

© Atique R. 

Waiting for the Rain

 

It was a sad gloomy day

With the monsoon breeze

Flying in from the Himalayas.

The darkening waves of clouds,

Shrouding the day light, was just

Flowing in the glimmering sorrows.

 

Sweating on in humidity high

Under the darkening cloud

I was all alone with a frozen sigh.

In the furies of magical chimes,

I had to keep my hopes lay idle

Under a leafless tree

Full of grayish branches,

With my sight up above

The unhappy sky

In search of raindrops…

 

Like a crow in a desert

Flying relentless

For a hundred years…

© Atique R. 

Walking into the Dream

 

A number of

Autumn colored trees

Lined up in a row,

Raining petals of flowers

To greet her in a vow.

 

And the Moon

Ascending gently

On its throne

Ushers her in

To the dream

She has never been.

 

And she walks on;

Her wings unleashed. 

© Atique R. 

Ode on a Green Dot

 

Green Dot

Watching the green dot

On your insta Id

I can spend hours, dear

Dreaming a sweet lunar shot.

 

Feeling your presence

Under the same blue sky

With just a beaming green dot,

I can let time crawl past me

With my wings gone unshackled for a fly

In the Moon-blanched night.

 

With a green dot

Staring at me, dear

Like a thousand fireflies,

I can drown my soul

Into your drunkening eyes

For a whole long winter...

 

Watching the green dot

Ringing the beats of my heart

From the blank chatbot,

I can draw with the dew, dear

Hundreds of couplets

With my soul-draining essence 

To share my unworded feelings

In a deafening silence...

© Atique R. 

Chasing the Blue Rose

 

The time, seemingly

Melted and stagnant,

Was creeping past

The new dawns slow,

Like the relentless

Waves of an ocean;

Sometimes riding high,

Some other times low,

But without ever ceasing to flow.

 

And then I met her

On my rebirth

After the third death

In an unfathomed hollow. 

She was the beauty

I ever craved to pen a poem for

With all my soul-draining essence;

With the undiscovered words

Cradling onto the edges of a shore

And the musing melody of silence.

 

Then I asked her

To come, walk together

With the dances

Of a summer rain,

Draining out all

Worries and pain

To float the souls forever...

 

And then she denied

With a mysterious smile

And a fragrance floating over

Like the earlier lives

I was born for a blue rose form her

And to stop chasing lives forever...

© Atique R. 

The Forgotten Clan

 

The Forgotten Clan

Our days pass by

In bread without butter.

And there are nights;

We come home late

To skip the supper.

 

And we hear

The news of NASA,

Ploughing Mars

For water.

 

And we go to bed

In the winter slope;

Our dormant dreams

Lay frozen

With the light of hope

Shuttered.

 

We are common people

After all;

Quarrels and make noises

For a pinch of salt,

Leaving life

Way behind the wood

In struggles to catch

A meagre livelihood.

And we keep a smile

On our face;

Dry, real and bold.

© Atique R.