Spark

There was a time in my life when the sky was blue (6:03 AM)

When the sun shone gold and thus life felt so true

But as days went by and the green trees grew old

Put out was the sun and the world grew cold

I dragged on thorough the night with the cold and the wind

Staring up at the cloudless night as darkness further dimmed

For the roads were too worn and the world to forlorn

As I was a trace of a past which they shut out every morn

Soon the road turned narrow and my shoes worn and torn

Only barren fields by my side with dead wheat and dry corn

It felt as though life was a chapter of the past bygone

My views were like words from a melancholic song

Soon days turned to weeks but hidden stayed the sun

Neither food nor sleep was part of the web that life spun

My shoes were to worn and my lips all cracked and parched

My legs gave away to blisters and pangs of pain as I marched

Thus, as the ghosts of yesteryears left me in peace

I learnt how to forget and thus my pain did cease,

My wounds weren’t healed but my scab sealed them out

My heart turned to stone and my mind ceased to shout

Then as I moved on towards the end of the path in a trance,

I happened to stare at the cloudless sky by pure chance

There, nestled in the midst of the dark tresses of the night

Shone the spark, a twinkle than then faded out of sight

I stared at the spot where the star has shone last,

For she had changed a moment with the spark she’d cast

Then as I stood at the edge of the path and stared out,

I saw the horizon light up slow and then passed out

I wish I wake up and see that the spark was for real

For the spark, gave me hope to escape my ordeal

I lay on the cold road my wounds bleeding anew

I peeped at the blue sky and tasted drops of dew (6:30 AM)

Manas R Moothedath

March 25, 2006

Tranzend

The lights dimmed, darkening his face (3:05 PM)

He looked an average-Joe totally commonplace

But something in his eyes ~ one couldn’t place

For you simply couldn’t follow his dark gaze

He dragged on shuffling slow

His tatters in the wind did blow

The sorrows ~ that made him grow

Lay deep amongst the falling snow

The city was falling asleep

Bright lights ~ going to sleep

Into the cold night slowly did seep

An eerie sense terror that instills deep

Every breath that passed turned white at will

The shadows moves steadily, in for a kill

When out of the blue did she spill,

Black green eyes ~ another run on the mill

He moved on ~ his mind full of gloom

A cold metal bench did he witness soon

Slowly lay down he, caressed by the moon

In the freezing cold awaiting inevitable doom

As he lay still on the icy bench,

He felt a warmth across him drench

An intruder had arrived unknown to him

Two bright green eyes shined at his side

The wind gave into a gale - louder now

Taking the warmth across the snow

Finally, as it deemed to settle down slow,

The cold returned to complete the show (4:20PM)

Manas R Moothedath

28/2/2006

IRONYC

Have you ever wondered about things, (9:45 AM)

That made no sense to a normal mind

For the sun does show forbidden sights

Layered in silt and dirt of all kinds

And when the moon doth shine aloud

You stand below caressing the light

While unknown to you, sings a sullen crowd

Cacophonic hymns at a satanic site

You see the drops of dew on a summer day

Smiling ~ happy that you’re on your way

While unseen by you ~ drenched in blood

Have dew drops witnessed a violent flood

You see the boy next door and smile

Bright days of youth ~ a special kind

Fore your breath has passed way, crazy youth turns him senile

It’s like the world is being run by a psychotic sadistic mind

After work, you return home

In your AC car, quiet ~ all alone

Screams of death surround your place

Devoid of truth, onward you race

You get into bed and say your prayers,

An eerie silence thuds – hard in your chest

As sleep calls you toward darker layers

Swallows the night – You and the ignorant REST! (10:00 AM)

Manas R Moothedath

27/2/2006

Deception

Once upon a time eons ago(11:30 AM)

There was a fair land – pure and true

Blessed lands were they, by a higher force

An aura of peace did it seem to hold

The blue extended from the ends of the world

The green leaves chattered, swaying their souls

Breaths of moist air, coursed all through the lands

Life layered above over an expanse of golden land

Twas’ amongst this land that I once lived

A child with lively, twinkling bright eyes

With this sacred land did I share a bond

A tacit agreement wrapped up in love

The wind – my best friend held all my secrets within

Blue skies with their expanse drank up my soul

Green leaves on the cue were like whispering pals

And then came love, the soft moist golden land

I pranced about with the wind day in and day out

With every breath that I took brightened my face

My skin tingled from soft caresses of the wind

Their jokes left me rolling about – half crazy

But as the days went by the breeze became warm

The leaves drooped down and then grew brown

The sly although blue – now simply and expanse

The warm earth turned dry and cold as life spun

I was shocked, confused and irritated at heart

For I couldn’t see how friends could be thus

Hard did I try to make amends and to realize,

But alas! Was left each night – empty hands beside

Tears drenched me for the sorrow was too great

My friends, my love, my faith and my life betrayed

They moved on with life, and left me far behind,

To lay wretched alone, soiled and embittered by fate

Soon seasons moved through and colors tuned by

And with time dried my tears and pain inside

For a brutal witness was I to life’s deception

A deception by form of friendship and love

Now, as the sun starts a day and shines with his might

The rays leave me unfazed like the rock inside(2:35 PM)

Echoes

They sauntered out taking the noise (2:15 PM)

All the colors fresh and bright beside

And there was I pondering recent past

Drumming to the latent beats last casts

All the song and dance leaving their trace

As they moved faster now, in certain haste

I looked across at the thoughts left behind

Absorbing them taking it deep – into my mind

The screams of ecstasy still did seem

Reluctant to move, to fade away

The corners of the room, it did deem

To bend the moment, and make it stay

Soon the rounds gave into a void patch

The music left only light beats intact

The expanse of space did seem so daft

Twas’ emptiness loud that my mind did catch

The sun went down and in came the breeze

Slowing life’s pace ~ as it came to pass

For ~ a certain gloom did it seem to impose

Leaving me with empty and void echoes…(2:40 PM)

Manas R Moothedath

25/02/2006