Dazzled by Illusion

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Distraction

I was seeking distraction just as I was passing through the different lanes of different towns, the National highways taking me to different states, peeking out of the window looking at how different lives people lived separated merely by a few miles,

And I smiled as I gradually lost myself in your thoughts, in a matter of seconds found myself immersed completely, becoming oblivious to the changing landscapes and the miles I covered, it was like a hangover left after the intoxication that your presence caused, your thoughts and our memories were the two drugs keeping me alive amidst chaos, making me feel alive in the monotonous symphony of life, allowing me to seek escape everytime.

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Indecision

Indecision has clouded the mind

That it's hard to comprehend what's really up with life

Every moment is laden with confusion

And I'm out of answers for the emerging questions

What's coming up tomorrow is no longer just a mystery

It has now turned to be the greatest reason for anxiety

And people say it's just a phase

That it would pass, leaving only happy place

I'm not even sure as to what I'm seeking

How to make prayers for anything that's fleeting

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Keeping you alive

The habit of escaping my reality by immersing in your thoughts

Hasn’t left me or changed even a bit though things having changed a lot

Even today I keep you alive in my thoughts

Though a year has passed and there are many more to come

With only the memories to help me survive and not succumb

You’re still my favourite escape and my go to

Whenever life tries to leave me black and blue

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And what is love for you?

After years this was the question posed before me too

I answered in simple words of my understanding

But could that justify its complexities that were abounding

Isn’t it an emotion that’s confounding?

Isn’t it the reason behind existence?

To love and be loved without conditions

Isn’t it the divine law that governs every creation

Beautiful, inexplicably beyond imagination

Has love not the enormous strength

To make one go to any length

It is eternal and mystifying

An attempt to comprehend it would be unsatisfying

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And when I think of you, all I know is the first ray of sunshine after a series of dreary days.

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Rise and shine

Don’t let them define who you are

When you can rise and shine like a star

You cannot be confined to being their definition

You are a possibility beyond imagination

They can’t be making your choice

Don’t let them take away your voice

It might sometimes get dark

But that cannot take away your spark

Don’t let them define who you are

Step outside the judgmental ‘bazaar’

Selling everything to keep you behind

Asking you to concede, to resign

Step out of it, life will be unconfined

Free from the shackles, there will not be a thing to bind

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You will bloom one day

Just don't fade away,

Every flower blooms in its own pase.

It might take long and you may see more dark days,

But you need not to run a race,

Every flower blooms in its own pace.

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Alive!!

And there where peace abounds, in the heart of the nature I lost myself and felt alive.

Loosing myself and feeling every wave of the soothing wind, swaying with its motion, I felt alive.

Feeling the ground beneath and the music of the leaves as I treaded slowly, relishing the nature's beauty, I felt alive.

Capturing the boundless liveliness, I felt alive.

Willing to take up the risks of exploring the unknown and running into the treasure trove of the finest that nature offers, I felt alive.

Feeling the touch of the leaves, the moisture that dew left, I felt alive.

With every breath I took in and every heartbeat I felt under the open sky, I felt alive.

With the picturesque sight of the sun playfully hiding behind the mountains and the clouds, I felt alive.

Left with the longing to stay in the calm, away from the world's chaos, forever feeling this alive.

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Questions

But why should life be only about what's necessary?

Can't it be about being happy and loving care free?

Why these norms should decide what's meant to be?

Can't each heart find its own way and quit being a detainee?

Why are there parameters to judge and always disagree?

Can't there be acceptance for all in harmony?

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A long day

Hasn't it been a really long day?

The sunshine hasn't made its way

Through the dark clouds now causing dismay

Haven't I been waiting for a really long while?

For a morning that might just bring a smile

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House/home??

There was no corner in the whole house or any of its part

That could provide a refuge to her broken heart

Where she could give voice to her hushed sob

And get some peace which had been robbed

She never actually missed that house whenever away

Instead she could breathe free and live happy anyway

She wondered why people would miss 'home' while staying at hostel

She couldn't ever anticipate joy of visiting home at any festival

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Just how amazingly these memories work, in a moment make the strongest of men feeble!

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Fighting every day

Keeping up the fight every day

With every moment of the clock ticking away

Relentless efforts to keep bleakness at bay

Yes I'm fighting every single day

To have the odds in my favor

And show that I'm braver

That I'm just another wayfarer

Stupefied by life and its different flavours

I'm treading along the different ways

Trying to be stronger than yesterday

Yes I'm fighting every single day

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Our story

Going down the memory lane 

Watching the memories play 

From all that we have lost and all that we could gain

We've really come a long way 

It's just so overwhelming to write

Everytime I shudder, I just wish you to be at my side

Such homely feeling in your presence, I can't describe

I feel safe and secure 

Such that I can walk with you, blindfold

It isn't wrong when I say I believe in you more than myself

In all the moments that I had you, I couldn't ask for anything else

I'm grateful that you've given me a place in your life

You have been my best best choice

That I'm so proud of and wish to flaunt

Alas, this is something I really want 

All that I can wish today is that you find your peace

That I wish to see you thrive, to say the least

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Start walking

And just when you start walking

Take little steps in the starting

Look no less than a toddler who keeps falling

Naive, who hasn't before experienced anything daunting

Exposed to the stumbling blocks 

Just everywhere on the path

And the world laughs when it sees you totter

Tries to pull you back down by constant jabber

As they can't see you learning to run

To finally be able to compete with them 

This world demands immense strength

To stand strong and keep up in the constant run

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Fathomless

It was back then that I couldn't realize

Why everything changed everytime I looked into your eyes

It is now if someone would ask me why

I would answer that it was the love that left me surprised

Fathomless! surpassing all units that could measure its depth

Before which the deepest point of ocean would also seem to be a shred

Never did I ever witness such affection for me

It made me escape my own reality

I used to be on seventh heaven having you around

My feet would then not touch the ground

It is only now that I realize

It was the fathomless love that knew no price

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Look at yesterday

And whenever I would look at yesterday

I would see how childlike and simple were my ways

That, though I had bettered myself striving each day

Yet been beguiled by the world's deceptive ways

How each one of us feels the same way

We all grow and learn from yesterday

Adding memories which we preserve in the closet

Or those that come to life from the pictures tucked in the pocket

Just a glimpse and we relive the moment

Feel the gush of every emotion that needed to be spoken

As if some magic wand performing a reversion

Showing us our young and dumb version