Another Chance

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Have you ever heard your thoughts

Going back to yesteryears

A place where flocks

All your memories dear 

You Spin and mull those dreams 

Through cobwebs or be clear

Your heart feels half or full

Knowing you are, your own cheer

But if life seems aghast

Eerily veered from path

Knowing promises were not kept

Are going to bear the wrath

Those childhood dreams precious

Life lived abstemious 

Marred by shadows dark

For reasons so facetious

Hey God! now please do listen

And be a real sport

I promise not to be smitten

By wrong path at the fork

Commit hardship or I suffer 

In my mind, there is no doubt

Just give me chance another
Path sunlit or shadowed by cloud

I will, I will do all
In mind I know won't fall
Promises will keep me tall
Not mind lifespan be small
Balancing soul with pride
Learning life's lessons, contrite
Promises I want to keep
Be burden heavy or light

Manjari

Not of this earth

Changing display, with winds every lurch
Static or sway, up high in sky perched
Dark as heavens or lighted with fire
reaching your heights envious, I do conspire

Spread out across the earth
With a blanket covered
Riotous colors wild
Every shade demanding berth
Lightening with streaks
At times with lofty spires
Intermingled with mountain peaks
Lakes in sky, at times drier

Inspiring me everyday
Can't rest my imagination at bay
Soaring high every time
Balming edges of heart's fray
Can't imagine for a moment
Life without your existence
Clouds of my meditation
Without you, life will be penance

Manjari

Clarity in mind

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Certain sweetness is there in lovelorn pain

Don't know heart loses in it or gains

Unsteady beats and shallow breaths

Reminder constant of boon turned bane 

It is reality serious, not just a game

no matter life full or just inane

Endearing thoughts, no stopping on its own

need no sympathy, definitely not  disdain

when you, believe me, lose your heart 

Not really it is walk in park

Divine elation, and flights in clouds 

Nights be dark, falling to valleys apart

Uncertain feelings plenty
Contant questions, answers be none
Mind's flight rocky
Foggy in mind, clarity undone

However it seems,this I have to say

Knowing now, my feelings night and day

My world  changed forever, like baked clay

Your presence won't leave, no matter you go or stay

Manjari

No Going Back

Don't know why you tried it so

Wound given sometime ago

Did not think that one I adore

Will give my heart a heavy blow

Bringing you up sheltered you know

Control you call it , maybe so

Keeping you safe was job supreme

As was I brought up, sometime ago

Don't know terms that you apply

Or rules you think you comply

Yes there were limits as should be
Was given possibilities you deny

Don't want to list all that I did

Have done as found it loving and fit

And things you did and we kept hid

We brought you up without a script

Thinking alone now you can walk

Think, is okay at us to balk

Were you just watching time to clock

We stood rebuffed as thorny stalk

Not everyday that I get hurt
Only when remember you being curt
Did everything as one could do
Nothing for you, but only dirt

No I don't feel no joy, no malice
Life is no wonderland of Alice
To drink up, and have past restored
Don't think ever will find that Chalice

Manjari

Salvation

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Is it in togetherness

Or is it in loneliness

Or life lived with delicate finesse 

Or is it too in roughness

Is really a matter of knowledge

Or is it just to count your breaths

May be to finally acknowledge

Things learnt before one's death

Drama of life's story line 

Why has to be one's play

Moving with waves up high 

Crashing on rocks in Bay

Purpose of circle of life

When one depends on another

What message really is there

Why does any of it matter

Making no sense in mind

Existence to feed another

Lives separate but entwined

In reality detached further

Why create to destruct it all

Universe or person small

A puzzle mysterious grand

Or a game, if any, at all

Have no control being puppet

Drama of love and hate

The mirage of Salvation !
Or a word much like Fate

Manjari

Be your Coal

Desiring a presence next to me
Who let me be, when I want to be
Just a floating soul in nature's sea
Interacting with flowers like a buzzing bee

May ripples be small, or waves quite big
Reveal my self, at times need to dig
Sun may scorch at my being at times
Be flower on cactus, no fear of pricks

I want my flock to fly up high
My soulmate next to me, by my side
Wanting just love even when there's fight
Existence together, my dream come alive

Giving off energy, then imbibing some
There is no other way to existence
Beating hearts' harmony in your presence
Music beautiful in your silence

Need no ladder and need no pole
No lofty aspirations exposing my shoal
Shining like a diamond not my goal
Warming your existence, let me be coal

Manjari