A DIFFERENT BREED

This flower never blooms
Unless on a bed of fire,
On a bush cramped with thorns
Caressed by the strong hands of storm

This flower never stoops
Its stem is strong and hard
Yet see how beautiful it stands
Head held high with dignity of a bard

O’ Lovely flower
Your spirit inspire
To live, to feel the world
To unleash the passion within

Let go the chains that bind
Let go the fears that restrain
Fly high my friend, where
The joy of life fills the heart.
© Achu

Let the spirit be free. Let it roam wild. Let your heart leap into your eyes. And see the difference. Your vision clears from the blur of dogma to that of humanity. When the physique is free, but the mind chained freedom becomes an illusion. Think like a child. Think like a man. Think like a woman. Think like a eunuch. Think like a lion. Think like a rat. Think like an animal. Think like a human. Understand. Empathise. And you’ll burn with the flame of the fire. You’ll swim with the fish in the water. You’ll fly with the bird in the sky. Real Freedom. To think and to do.
© Achu

AN ODE TO ‘YOU’ The flowers of the garden as they see you go by Is ashamed of their beauty. The deer of the wild as she see your eyes Is ashamed off her life. The night as it sees your lustrous hair Is ashamed of its darkness. The stars want to take you down as they see The brightness in your eyes. Tell me how can I stop loving you When you are in front of me, When you are inside of me, When you are in my dreams. The sea is ashamed as it touch your mind For the vastness and depth it feels. The breeze acts cold as it sees you care For the souls lost in a dream. The dew drops lose themselves in the air Ashamed by the purity of your heart. And my love for you make me feel the painOf being unworthy of you. © Achu She She had the brightest smile And that twinkle in her eyes She is my friend, my life Why isn’t she here with me now? The moon is shining bright The gentle breeze caress my cheeks On the grass I layback light Why isn’t she here with me now? She’s the flame of my heart She’s the rhythm of my life She’s the music of my soul Why isn’t she here with me now? Somebody blew off the flame And the rhythm goes off beat The music flows without a frame And Lo! She’s away from me now. But I can see her in me I can see her in you And I try to keep going on Escaping the reality of truth. © Achu FORGIVE When silence reigned the heart And music left the soul From the heaven they sent me an Angel To play the strings of my heart She brought back my lost dreams She brought back my hopes And her support in my solitude told I got someone to hold We exchanged our troubles For some love and care We exchanged our tears For some laughter and joy It’s the moments that we shared It’s the trust that we bear For each other how we care Is what binds us together. I just wanted to make you smile I just wanted to stop you cry I just wanted to caress your hair And say how much I care But my dear, I don’t know Whether I failed or not But I love you from deep inside And forever I’ll be there for you, in all your trials Forgive me if I’ve hurt you Forgive me for all my mistakes I believe only my beloved Can forgive what I do. © Achu

The journey is on. None knows when it started. None knows when it will end. But the destination is clear. As I tread deeper into the swirl of time I realise once I will also be timeless. Doomed are they who don’t realise this. For, never can they experience the tranquillity that would have come their way. The knowledge that you can defy the ever mobile hands of time. The base of hour, the day, the month, year, eternity. To be massless, & timeless, shattering the chains of obligation. To be you, the single you.
© Achu

LOST CITY There on the top of the mountain I see a sight worth seeing For the mind to be racing ahead to there You need to be Ah! Living You can see it with your eyes You can feel it in your mind The dreams that’s lost in the remains Lost city, it can only be that Lost city, I wanna be there Lost city, I’m gonna be there Think about the people who walked this way Think about the feelings they had on those days Ask the stones how they loved and played Ask the stones how they warred and slayed They loved with their hearts They warred with their hands It was not just like today The souls, they still linger there Lost in time they stayed For the Heaven could not lure them Nor the hell could scare them They exist in the silence there! © Achu NIGHT Listen to the night You’ll feel the pain inside Feel it in your mind You’ll be pure as the tears from your eyes. Listen to your heart To be the man you are Mask it from the world You’ll tread the path alone. Look into your soul To feel the sense of life Let in a little darkness And into deep the cancer creeps. © Achu TOUCH When a touch can do wonders When a smile can soothe under A kiss can change the way You will live forever. Let me have it oh girl Please let me have it oh girl ‘cause I’m lying on the floor For a helping hand from above. If a dream can get you there If a flame can show the way Love can extend its arms To put you on the cloud. © Achu Completely out of this world. Where? Don’t know. But the body is here. Like a corpse that rot deep under. But the soul. You don’t know where. Like that the mind. The mind. It is high, high above the sky. Flying free like an eagle. But alone. With none to care, and no one who cares. But it is searching. Searching for a place to rest. Because it’s wings are aching. But where? Nowhere it can see a tree. A rock? No. Even the earth is too hot to put the feet on. The eagle is tired. With aching wings it tries to pull up. But in vain HE slowly starts descending. Slowly, slowly, ever too slowly. Spreading its wings. As it descends the science proves itself once more. Its speed increases. Down and down and down he crashes to the molten earth. Now there is no eagle. Only clouds. Black clouds without the silver lining. The thunder is yet to come. © Achu The mind is racing. But the destination? Do you need one? It is a galloping wild horse with flowing mane. He goes wherever he wants to. But he shies away form his own shadow. He is afraid of it. Afraid of his own shadow. Yes, I’m afraid of self-realisation. ‘cause I am a prisoner in myself. Or rather, the society made me a prisoner within myself. The dos and don’ts of the parents, the hell and Heaven of the religion, the good and bad of society, the obligations, the education, everything, everything chains me down. But the mind wants to break free. I can’t. Because I cannot escape from my beliefs. They are the extension of my past which would decide my future. Without my past I am nothing. © Achu

DREAMS

Oh! Dreams
Why did you blossom in this dried unwanted tree
Where the right to sway in happiness is denied
Where to take the breeze and sing is deprived
Only to crack, like laughter, the ecstasy of sorrow
Is the fate of this lonely tree that’s undead

Oh! Flame
Why did you light this brightest of the candles
For as a butterfly, lured by the light
I’m fluttering towards it to make myself bright
Only, to fall with burning wings,
To leave the shadow of life behind.

Oh! Flower
Why did you adorn this dead garden with your hues
Where only the dried trodden leaves survive
Where you stand alone and spring is yet a dream
Yet waiting for those colourful moments in life
That you know, would never come.
© Achu

WAIT...

The mind flows like the breeze
Between the trees
Seeking a companion in the leaves
That it caresses

But the leaves hush and say no
For you are here now
Gone the next moment only to give us
Longing that breaks the heart

To the bird on the tree the breeze asks,
Hey, bird you fly, I too fly,
Can you come with me?
‘To where’ she asks.

The answer I don’t know
For the breeze is free
The destination is unbeknown
Again a goodbye that breaks the heart

On the breeze goes
To find a leaf cast-away
In its arms the breeze takes the falling leaf
Maybe a little life remains

That’s life where one has to go on with
Full of hopes that’s never done
Full of joy that never comes
Just going on and on and on…
© Achu

DEATH

She has departed
Like a dream that goes in a blink
She came and went
Like a swift blowing wind

Sometimes I used to wonder
Someday will she be mine?
She always used to assure
I’ll be thine, thine, thine!

Is it a selfish thought?
We all are in our little ways
Even You were selfish oh! Lord,
When you wanted her by you

Now, what will make my heart bloom?
What will make my face blush?
Where is the straw to cling to
In the swirl of life?
© Achu

Here I am sitting with my eyes on the wall but seeing nothing. Searching for my dreams which has made me who I am. Without them I am nothing. For dreams have shown me the beauty of life. Have given me a reason to live. Dreams, where wishes and actions merge. Dreams, where body and soul becomes one. Dreams, the life blood of mind. It is those dreams that has made the world what it is today. All the things that surround you, somebody, somewhere had dreamed it. Even nature. He would have dreamed it before he had realised it. Yes, none can escape dreams for, little does one know of his mind. And the search never end. Even when the soul farewells the body. Maybe, it is another eternal dream in an everlasting sleep. You never know.
© Achu

There is someone in the mirror in front of me. Two eyes are glaring at me. Those eyes were dead or rather frozen. But nothing can be more deceptive than the obvious. So I looked deep into those eyes. As I was wandering in there I could see it speaking. Speaking the language of silence. Powerful as the silence was, was the questions it raised. Who are you? Where do you come from? I am Achu. Who is Achu? I am. And I come from the place where every body come from. From the womb of a mother. And I have treaded the same path as every body else to arrive. Then how come you are not like me? Shadows can never claim the beauty of its image.
© Achu

LOST IN THE SPACE OF TIME

A timeless solitude is there in the heart
To sit alone in a reverie of the past
To dream the future oblivious of the present
And to be lost in the space of time

The heart tries to bring back the past
The spirit tries to bring in the future
Yet the brain tells, "It's today,
Not tomorrow or yesterday you live"

But, yesterdays give me the strength
And tomorrows, a reason
Woven by today, these make
You go on and on and on. . .

Surrounded by friends, yet alone
Here I am between the walls of today
With the body here, but the mind
Lost in that timeless spirit of life.
©2006 Achu

WALKS OF LIFE

Hush…. And hark at the wind
It’s gentle hands tries to play
The broken strings of my heart
It sings in my ears the message of hope

But when the wind passes away
The heart falls Silent, than silence
A stillness, than stillness embraces
And I feel a stranger within myself

But you are a traveller treading along
Sometimes you stumble onto strange wonderlands
But as it passes by you may forget the path
But you never forget the sights.
©2006 Achu

Don’t waste your time on jealousy. Sometimes you are far ahead. Sometimes you are far behind. The race is long. Beat yourself.

STRANGE LULLABY
Oh! Sweet child
Close your eyes
I'll rock you to sleep
Forget all the weep.

Don't cry for your father
I know you want his arms
But his hands hold a gun
And it's so rough that a caress will feel a pain.

Oh! Sweet child
Just run wild
Free your mind
Forget the whimpers and cries.

He's made mothers cry
I answer them with my tears
He's alive or not alive
What shall I tell you when you cry.

Oh! Sweet child
I'll tell a lie
For memories never die
To peck you through your life
©2006 Achu

LIFE?

Crimson creeps into the horizon
Like the blood of Christ oozing
To quench the thirst of the mighty sea
Or to save the poor souls in the sea?

Life takes a break
To be one with the nature
To enjoy one's own company
To liberate your soul

In the darkness that creeps into the heart
In the stillness broken only by silent sighs
I stay awake
Wondering why am I alive

You need a reason to Live
To exist means worse than death
And here am I ever waiting for that reason
Cursing, for just being born

I am falling deep into the gorge of time
Hoping that there is a hand at the end
Ah! A hope that opens doors to a new world
For, once you are born you have to die
©2006 Achu