Lines and Lanes

 The Crow's feet near your eyes,

The smile lines

The furrows above your brows..

Are the testimonials of the lanes you took.

The journey you choose.

The love you gave.

And the challenges you accepted!

Each carry a story, waiting to be unboxed

A memory to treasure

A wisdom to part with.

When we meet, don’t shy away!

Present to me your lines!

Shower me with tales of your lanes!

For it is I, who is blessed, when your express..

Making mine, all that is yours

Making mine all that is yours.

Your lines and your lanes

Become our lines and our lane.

~*In His Jacket *~

 

Enveloped by your warmth

Wearing your Jacket

On hilltop, travelling a path

That we once travelled together

I wander alone.

Now, that you have chosen rest

I set out on travels that are:

Familiar yet New

Known yet Unknown

Cherished yet saddening

Bittersweet like you

Like you..

I won’t crib about missing you

Rather, I’m grateful for those travels with you,

You..

You have given me strength, courage and curiosity

To love, explore and question.

I, now, walk a path of new with wisdom of old.

With your Jacket on my shoulders

You, by my side and many mysteries to unfold.

 

 

~* ~* Grace Full *~ *~

Grace ....

Grace is when you slip but don't fall 

Or even if you fall you, it's a cushioned fall 

Grace is when all the signals on your way are green 

Grace is being offered water at the time of thirst 

Grace is that we'll suspended vehicle that can take you through all terrains 

Grace is having your favorite dessert ! 

Grace, are rains when wished upon 

Grace is to witness a breath taking Sunset 

Grace is kindness, when least expected 

Grace is finding something you thought was lost 

Grace is to love and being loved back 

Grace is when all that is effort becomes effortless at last !

HOW?

How do you console the inconsolable?

How do you be kind to the unkind?

How do try to make sense in this nonsense?

How do you forgive the unforgiving?

How do you be insane around the sane?

How do you make visible, the invisible?

How do speak the unspeakable?

How do you bring joy to the joy-less?

How do you sieve black and white from the gray?

How?

 

~**The Hugging Right Technique**~

 

You see the thing about porcupines ­­is that, they are the most adorably lovable creature, like the utmost, but you also see where the problem is, right? “The porcuPINES” ... The pines on their back!  Baam!! Any extreme emotional situation triggers their pines to launch.

 So, what do you do? You just have to be extra careful when you love them.

What can I say about extra careful… let’s just put it this way, you can love them only in a certain way and that way is the way they demand, anything and everything out of that is, the out of syllabus portions that is useless despite the efforts. But then comes a lot question.” are you even ready to love a porcupine? Do you know how to love one? Is there a manual you can get or some reference point to begin from? “

Well, only if life was that easy. You don’t know but you see, you meet a lot of porcupines in your life, daily, who are the most wondrous creature but have pines. In fact, you just might be one of them. Yes! You The one with pines on your back, and the only way you know to love is to launch these pines froth.

To be honest there is no offence regarding the pines. The pines add definition to your life and more over it was your choice to love a porcupine*. (*PINES Included). You knew what you were getting in to.  Now, don’t say otherwise. Following is the biggest question of all “what is love?”

What is love? What can I say? In simple words,” hugging the porcupine right”. Yep, that’s what you heard, “Hugging the porcupine right”, What I’m trying to say is that, now that you have made the choice to be with a porcupine, meaning you didn’t skip the terms and conditions that is *, but actually read it and understood what it meant.

Because not all days are going to be good days. Well, somedays are going to be hard, sad and mad too, an emotional roller coaster. You just need to know, how to love on those days too. I would suggest the Hugging right technique... just know where the pines are not and give them the warmest tightest hug you can. That’s it! In my shallow heart I know it will work.  

*When Death Comes*

When death comes

I would like to meet her old

Not like the age but like old friends 

Sitting on a table and catching up with life 

She telling me all her stories of time and me mine.

Mine you see are, well honestly "plain"

Yet she, with open arms sipping her whisky, listens

I go on and on with everything I've got!

Eventually we arrive at now,

Having relived all my past and every what if that is not! 

At now, Silence 

In that silence, I sense something 

an understanding that my time is up and her drink is over.

I smile nervously and she with her kind eyes.. "it's time" she whispers. 

Together We get up, hand in hand,

Clear my tab and leave.

**Tears**

Caught in turbulence

Suffocating on air

Everything around a whirlwind

The experience so intense

That words fail.

Then, it seeps,

Flowing freely from the cage of your eyes!

Tears.