Truth on the Other Side

 

The Moon stops the clock

And tunes it

To be in the midnight block.

But, it's not night anymore;

For he has gone past

The nights of life...,

Past the body

He'd been dwelling in so far...

With all the shadowed memories

He used to water…

 

The shredded drops of Moon

Falling in pieces

Onto his swinging body,

Can no longer trigger a flight

To the world of the nightingales;

For he has gone past

The crowd of nights,

Leaving behind

A bunch of withered dreams,

Adorably preserved

Under the darkness of borrowed lights...

 

The wavering touches of the blue

In a tranquil seclusion

Under the dwindling light,

The southern breeze

Flowing in from the bay

Through the unprized shades of night

Will no longer give him

The thrill of a free fall

From the wuthering height;

 

For he has flew past

The bays, the beauties,

The tale of an idiot

And the Styx river,

Leaving behind

A thousand splendid lies

To catch up with a truth

Lies on the other side of the border...

© Atique R. 

Will You Take Me Along…

 

I heard you the other day

Rode on the waves of an ocean

To fly along the crystal cay

For the touches of the blues

Drawing dreams on the west horizon...

 

I heard you walked miles

Along the salty, sandy shore

To feel the feet, sands and water

Melting in together;

And to quench

The searing soul for a bit more...

 

I heard you, friends, together

Got lost in the trail of old days

To track back your squandered dreams.

You talked a lot and laughed aloud

And smashed the long frozen memories

Back into the flow of your streams...

 

I heard you learned to dream again,

To write lyrics and give life to them.

I heard you learned to paint life

With the color blast of autumn;

You learned to wear off the grays and pains

With the dew of every new dawns...

 

And I want you to take me along,

If you plan another trip to water,

If you ever again tune to the song

Of the foamy waves from the far.

 

I've lived long alone

In a camouflaged seclusion

Amidst crowd;

In the relentless chasing

For a life in a mere illusion.

Now I want to breathe my life.

Will you take me along?

 

For I've never been to beaches,

Never feel the blues in my toes

Nor do I ever dreamify my eyes

With the bliss of a winging albatross...

 

Will you to take me along?

For, I want to dream again

In the streams of the memories;

For, I want to fly again

In the dreamy dunes of Moon;

For, I want to drink the life again

With sweet light drops of the Sun

And the rhyming splashes of the ocean...

© Atique R. 

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.