Verdict

Verdict

Sitting here wondering my life, 

Oblivious to the world that surrounds me, 

The clock is all I am hearing, 

And every second that passes my breathing becomes heavy. 

When did things turn to such a picture, 

That led us to be surrounded by these four walls,

Making the world question my intentions that fateful night, 

Framing a picture after picture of everything what happened between us. 

The darkness was everything that we fell for, 
Neglecting the light that we emitted when we were together, 
Avoiding the signs that told us to leave each other alone, 
From a magic potion to venom our love had taken a turn to the storm. 

Breaking us apart for good, 
Only to connect us as parents, 
Yet that small twinkle in your eyes, 
Made my heart collapse. 

Just like a fairy tale we came together, 
Only to see if it would be love that remains forever, 
Or if the hatred had captivated it's first victim, 
Up till that fateful night we were together like a torn photograph. 

With a small gash to your neck, 
Decapitating you just for a sadistic pleasure stood the demon upon you, 
Severing all the veins in your body to bleed out the hatred, 
Caressing you as you take your final sleep. 

The Black and Whites gathered around the home that we once had, 
Seeing the gore outside the house of our memories, 
Nabbing me from my slumber, 
To make me witness the crime that I may have committed. 

Presenting me to the world as your violator, 
Without knowing the truth, 
An year has passed away with you haunting me in my nightmares, 
My fate secured on a piece of paper that the group of your peers holds today.

Forcing me to ponder if I ever did it or was it the demon inside me, 
With each second the world looks at my face, 
Eyes red, a beard unkept and the invisible stain of disgrace, 
The verdict was sealed on my fate, 
If I could ever breathe in the open or will I be able to breathe alongside you.  

Shaurya

Valour(Shaurya)

Everyday a few wake up from their slumber,

Wondering the value that life holds for them,
Some do understand their roles,
While some choose to stay asleep. 

The souls that are their to protect us, 
Irrespective of what caste, creed, colour or religion we belong to, 
Never have they seen their faces ever before,
Put their lives on the line for us, 

Is this the valour that they talk about?
What about those who use their authority, 
Just to bring control to a troubled city, 
With peace and brotherhood being the epitome of progress. 

The ones who use brute force and disregard the very foundation of a nation, 
Only to bring in a life which is disciplined, 
With only fear dripping down the eyes of the innocent, 
Looking into their eyes and getting lost in the darkness that it hides. 

This is valour for some and dictatorial for the rest, 
Wiping the innocence away from the lives of the people, 
The uniform which they wear has an insignia of their being, 
Bringing havoc upon those who don't fear. 

They think it is valour that they fear them, 
While the reality is them fearing the demon that wears them. 
Valour is not just protecting people, 
It is the spirit inside the man that can do anything to protect those who can't protect themselves.Even fight his own. 
This is Valour, This is Shaurya.  

Battle Scars

Battle Scars

Blood seeping through the openings, 

With the skin breached by the knives of treachery and dishonesty, 

The veins gashed for the soul to break free, 

Cracking the very soul which had been the definition of strength. 

Friendships and relationships were sacred for me, 

Pledging loyalty to them irrespective of who they are,

Who had a whiff of danger that was sure to devastate us,

Blinded by the love and loyalty I had for them. 

With life being unpredictable,

Friends turning against you,

Planning and plotting against you, 

Only to bring you down. 

The ones I loved are now the ones who hate me, 

With me being the most vulnerable around her, 

Making her one of the conspirator, 

Breaking my soul into a million fragments. 

The strength within me loosening up, 

Giving them a look at the chunk in my armour, 

She stood there looking at me with love in her eyes, 

Only to stab me in the back. 

With eyes wide open, 

In utter dismay at the friends that I lived for, 

The girl that meant my life breaking me for them, 

Turning out to be the first one to stab me in the back. 

While putting my sieved body in the grave, 

My friends turn up with their blood soaked hands, 

To bid me farewell one more time,

Throwing the dirt with spit on my body. 

With the rusting souls entrapped in their bodies, 

Only to see them smiling at my plight, 

Bidding each other farewell, 

From a man the world feared only remained a cadaver with a million cuts.      

Say My Name

Say My Name

With the window cracked, 

And the dust entering the room, 

The files and the pages twirling around the room, 

Just when the I needed everyone the most, all I had was dust. 

Sacrifice was all I did, 

From the moment I saw you, 

The position where I was, 

Had handed me the world on a silver platter. 

But I had to leave it for you, 

Because you needed a self made person to believe, 

With each and every step to the top, 

Making me pant for my breath. 

I guess this is how life is, 

On the other side, 

Where success is everything and how it defines a person, 

Money is the new way to describe people. 

Slowly and slowly I lost who I was, 

From the nice sweet hearted soul you once met, 

To an egoistic sick arrogant ghost of a man that you fear, 

You had trusted me to be there to protect you. 

You needed me to hold you, 

And protect you whenever you needed, 

Now here I am enshrined by the dark, 

Asking you to save me. 

With your love surrounding me, 

And looking at me with your almond eyes, 

The broken soul in me asking you to protect me from who I have become, 

Because without you I would have nothing at all.  

The tsunami of emotions hitting the shores of my mind, 

With the flashbacks of the person I once was, 

Fighting the man who I am today, 

I see you laying besides me, 

Saying my name.  

Immortal

Immortal

While the world mourns, 

About a life that you had led for them, 

The ground beneath me now infested with cracks, 

The foundation that we had laid now weakening. 

We were young when we first met, 

The charm had a certain allure to it, 

Like an addict I knew I would be incomplete without you, 

Before you I had no where to go to. 

You not only gave my soul a destination, 

The vagabond within me was now at peace, 

With happiness being alien to me, 

You had finally found the path that would lead me there. 

With you now being the centre of my world, 

I had devoted my life to you, 

Walking with you on the path of roses, 

To the end of the road. 

With the pressure of the public eye, 

To the day you got shot, 

I had tried to showcase grit, 

When all I was a broken soul fearing for you. 

And as the life had taken a stride towards normalcy, 

You had that look in the eye, 

As the first day I saw you, 

With you losing a battle untold. 

I saw you lose control of yourself, 

The emotional breakdown, 

To the angst you had, 

The lost look that you would have. 

With the years you had to bear through, 

Trying to remember everything, 

Suffering from Alzheimer's was never easy, 

Slowly I had lost you forever. 

And today, 

After 8 years of separation, 

We meet again, 

To script a new chapter to our immortal love story.    

That's The Truth

That's The Truth

While the room was full of people, 
It still felt empty, 
With us pinned against each other, 
Who in his right mind would have thought that we would end this way. 

Amidst the arguments and accusation, 
I could see you from the corner of my eye, 
With that spark lost in the sands of time, 
Pushing me to forget about us. 

The love that had etched us till forever, 
Has now vanished from our lives, 
With adultery and deceit becoming the reality of our love,
You were my drug and I was your wine. 

Then the façade was over, 
With each passing second suffocating the love out of us, 
That fateful night when you had slapped my face with the worst nightmare, 
A paper changing our fate forever. 

I tried hard enough to be with you, 
Stopping you from ruining the best thing that ever happened to me, 
Had become my priority, 
With day after day and night after night, I had almost showered you with love. 

 But almost is never enough, 
When on that snowy night, 
You had decided to leave me alone, 
Making me a ghost of the house made up of our memories. 

With all the lawyers juggling with their paperwork, 
All I could do was just look at you for one final time, 
Before the world as we knew it changed.  
With the present and the past colliding. 

I am caught here in between, 
Only if we could go before the storm came raging in our lives, 
Destroying our identity, 
Not realising what we have to lose. 

No matter what the verdict is, 
At the ends we are the only ones who are going to lose, 
With the love gone, 
All I want to say is "Baby, Don't go." 
And that's the truth.     

What is Love? You

You

With each passing second of the day, 

All my life's work stare right at me, 

Making me wonder if it was worth it, 

To let you go for a life which suffocates me. 

We had known each other since college, 

From the rash arrogant classmate I was, 

To the most popular girl that you were, 

Yet we clicked the first day when we had set our gaze upon one and other. 

We had stated a dream of an empire together, 

Irrespective of the feelings we had, 

Years had passed, 

And the feelings died. 

But who knew that it would be short lived, 

I had become what we had dreamt about about, 

With the empire now built, 

On the broken ambitions of the people we knew. 

The very foundation being set and the dream turning into reality, 

I look behind me only to find you lost in your thoughts, 

With the look that you had when you first met me,

That was the moment when I realized what I had lost. 

Now as I see you leaving me, 

You have left me thinking, 

About you and why you hadn't left me for my inabilities, 

I had fought hard to protect you when you were petrified. 

You never had been complained about how I had never been there for you, 

Yet you stood behind me when I needed a driving force forward, 

And now as you go, 

I remember the time we had spent building our dream. 

Only to see how you sacrificed your life for mine, 

While I did the same for you, 

Doing everything in my capacity, 

If only you could have seen me. 

If only you had ventured into my eyes, 

And lost your self in the land unknown, 

You would have seen the palace I had built for you,

What is love? People ask me today, 

And like a dumbfounded child all I can think about is you.