Life plays

Once upon a dark moon

Love flew out of my hands

No more a confused toon

I begot an encaged fence

In there, I learned to dance

To the play of life

To the play of fate

When she decides to wait

For me to grab the bait

Of all that leaves me insatiate

 

Once upon a dark moon

I learned to swoon

At the real

At the spiritual

Instead of indulging in the unreal

For that which shows us the boreal

Has Beauty in its shell

Yet, it is a mere temporary apparel

Thus singeth my own lyre

Seek, seek, that which is beyond the pyre!

In a hotel room

Eons ago, in a hotel room,

I came face to face with doom!

Danger did loom

There in that dark room!

 

A ghoul seated on a broom

Appeared in the bedroom

And sprinkled some gloom

On my soul, so in need of a bloom!

 

Ready to be my bridegroom

Our union to be proclaimed in the ballroom

He called out to the groom

To have a festive lunchroom!

 

When I found strength to be a boom

I called out with my heart's zoom

And my Lord removed my gloom

By dissipating my cursed brume!

 

Eons ago, in a hotel room

I begot a boon, and a re-gloom

And my soul began to re-groom

For at last, I had found my real room!

Burning Embers

Alive are my embers

Alive in great numbers

Taking life from my dreams

Those irreal ones, so it seems

Yet, their motto is to burn and to flare

Even when without an ounce of air

Having their basis in hope

They make me climb every slope

A dream or a sign

To discard, I would never deign!

A mystery brought forth in a temple

When misery and despair came in ample!

Alive are still my embers

A decade later life still clambers

Yet, as long as I breathe and write

My embers shall bring me to my light

Flying like the Sparrow

Once I flew like the sparrow

Free, devoid of any sorrow!

Without thinking of tomorrow

Without any care of falling low

 

Then came crashing the waves

So harsh, I could not even seek the caves

Nothing could shelter my bruises

Not even the powerful marquises!

 

All of my humanity was lost

Every opportunity fate tossed

Kept me all stony

Devoid of any harmony!

 

Hope sparkled the day I received

A sign from the Lord,  so aggrieved

The only truth I chose to believe

For, my heart He accepted, as I was naive!

 

Then I flew like the falcon

Strong, bold and confident

Faced with obstacles, I easily won

And remained impassive amidst the transcient!

 

Caring only for my Lord

Hungering only for his abode

I sing for Him this ode

Hear, oh do hear, this lovely word!