Far away

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- Raghu


I dreamt a dream
I could fly

By the lake on the rocks
I sat alone
all fingers pointed at me

My own kin too weak
To stand up for me
I took the blame alone

What was it that I did?
I was born a tad late?
I didn’t get to choose

I tried my best to fit in
To share the laughter
But all I found was shame

I looked up to you
To lead the way
You left me behind

All I wanted to do
Was share
The happiness you had

It’s been a while
Things’ve changed
The dream’s taken over

Its not bitterness
But a detachment
I don’t want to share

In this little cave
Filled with my dreams
I’ll reach the skies
Far away from your sight
I'll be happy all alone
And you’ll never know


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Light up my way

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- Raghu


I remember you whispering to me
On that moonlit night at the beach
All that remains is just the memory
The words seem to've faded away

I’m waiting for you to light up the memories
And fill them with life again
So that I begin the journey and
Go on till I reach the end

A new dawn is here - it begins with silence
Many a things I’ve lost and found
A lot forgotten and learned
As I’ve walked along the lines of life

I see a shooting star in the depth of the night sky
I know I have to tarry on till the end
be my light, spread the warmth of your brightness
Till the very end of this journey called life..


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We be us

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- Raghu


let me flow through your veins
be one with your crimson streams
let me soak in through you
cling to every speck that consists

let me be the blue pulses
that spur your senses
let me feed you to this fire
that burns in my chest

let me be the millions of moments
that make up the ocean of your lifetime
let me drown you in my whims
and consume you to the very last drop

let me be your suffering
make me your refuge
let me be the taste that
reminds you that you live

let me show the beauty that lives
in you through my eyes
Let me bathe you in my blood
so we can be us through death and life


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Power and Love

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- Raghu


She met him
In the pure morning mist
The sun bright and strong
Unaware of what was in store

The mist cleared
A battle of light and dark uncovered
The forces of the flesh and mind bore
Swords of steel and fire

The lord who comes with the dawn
Promised eternal glory
To quench the thirst
Of the power hungry

He followed them
Into the lord’s territory
He sold his soul
And bought power

A master of power he was
A slave to it he was
His named feared across the lands and oceans
And the mighty bowed before him

She was nothing more
Than a fine thread
Floating on the pieces of what he was
A mere shadow of his true self

She longed for him
But there was no him –
there was just power –
and madness

She made up her mind
She struck a deal
The lord obliged
She sold her soul for her love


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Chord of cacophony

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- Raghu

Neat patterns of absurdity
They kill you with life
The sharp edges of light
Carve out ways into the abyss

Windows of opacity
Bring in the breathe that chokes
Fragile diamonds make beauty
Nothing less than a hypocrite’s promise

But the world still moves
On the path of the wheel
The wheel endlessly spins
Along the lines of brilliant madness


These pulses of life that
Flow through the brittle
chord of cacophony
Sheds darkness on the lights
That light up the path
Of the wheel of the line


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The promise at the end of every stick

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- Raghu


The promise at the end of every stick
As it burns away

Think of all the times
You hung your head in shame
in front of the mirror
which promised beauty

of some use it is to
be the way you are
endless perceptions
make way for irrational excuses

you say you’ll do it
you always say
but the promise at the end of every stick
just burns away

in the blandness and monotony
someday we’ll completely drown
what it was and what will be
are not for you to know

not privileged to comprehend suffering
it is a shame that you live
with fear of being consumed
by the hope of the promise

senseless shapes of distinct threads
the loose ends an eternal pain
make what you will of these lines
the promise still burns away


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The anthill

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The anthill



The moon it looms through dark clouds
Casting shadows on the dead leaves
The shadows dance in dark patterns
The grey wolf howls at the moon – the only companion

But wait! a dark light I see
Emerging out of nowhere
Is it an illusion or a dream?
I prick myself, I bleed, I know it’s real

A nerve-wrecking screech fills
the cold empty night - it seemed to come from beyond the anthills
that freezes red blood into blue ice
even the mighty brave would shudder

shaking and numb
I make my way through
the wicked thorns ,the black waters
and past the ant hills



the silence, it kills!
What just happened here?
the screeching wind settles down
to a soothing breeze

I look around
trying to recall what just happened
the emptiness here
something’s not in place

this night seems to have changed
the sky’s cleared
and the moon seems bright
the wolf ‘s gone silent

I walk back, cursing myself
I could’ve just looked at the moon
Crossing the anthill, I reach the place
where I watch the moon on lonely nights

wait! Why am I lying dead there?!



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