Winged desires...

The following piece of poetry is meant to be a book review for Khalid Hossieni's And the mountains echoed albeit poetic. I ferry a big fat book on my back to read I read it mostly not..for my eyes can't see Not that I am blind but 'coz they steal the light away God the sun and the driver the tube light.. When doth my journey to home take flight. When I doth scarcely read it i loose myself to it I turn the pages as though I live by another life The brother sister intrigues me as mine I grieve desperately at their loss and clutch my brother's hand Lest he too drift away from me as did pari midst the sand. I live a dozen lives more while hoping for pari to meet her abollah And then my faith sinks as does pari's wrinkles rise A question lingers.. Will she remember to remember abdullah then as a silver lining comes a call Tells pari the story of her history et al The oak tree,the swing ,the house the cart,the shadow of a burly canine a soft ...

I snoozed in my arm chair I saw a worm struggle I set it free,to ease its dismay But then I saw there was nay 'Coz it had wilted away. All the time I thought the heavens wept they were promises kept Whilst I complained of the mid daylight 'twere the blessings shining bright. I grieved of walking alone I knew not he carried me home. The risk in staying a bud is far more perilous than becoming a flower. The worm that struggles flies its best For after all, the best thing to do when 'tis raining is Let It Rain.

At some point or the other in life, we find a question staring us into our face.The quest for finding answers to questions has been a journey that began at the birth of mankind,and it still stares us into our face.There are numerous questions,some small,some grave,some silly and some brave.All of them keep us fixated into finding answers.But everybody does not get their share of answers,it is ones who stick till the end who continue to pursue their conquest till the end. As goes the popular idiom, 'Every cloud has a silver lining' . We do find answers to the everyday questions in life albeit with some delay.It is the gravity of the questions that decides when we get our answers.The answers to the smaller questions are like dewdrops on the blades of grass.You brush past by them,and they land on your feet.It is the bigger ones,which need digging,introspection and patience. Nature's law of symmetry is omnipresent and omnipotent,good and evil,dark and light,joy ...