'The New Legacy Begins'

Note: The following is a poetry composed for the advertisement of the Ibanez Darkstone Guitar Series.

The silence of the tombstones

Bounding off the dark vacuum;

Fragmented wholes

And metal meets mud.

A string or six, echo in bits

The dirge and the hymn

The deed and the sin.

Erstwhile, the music of the whole,

The music of the soul,

Now cometh, the music of the Darkstone.

The New Legacy Begins.

Hope in Posthumous.

Composed on January 15, 2012.

The visions of fascinating grandeur

And natural beauty, these eyes have seen.

They lie, uncluttered and 'uncategorized',

Behind closed long-lashed lids, within.

Smiles and excitement, sorrow and despair,

Trying their very best to touch others.

They lie withheld, they lie anonymous,

They lie on yellowing parchment, crumbling at the corners.

These ears, they love listening-

The stories, the differences.

At times, when a voice long held, expresses,

With intent ears, they are seldom met.

And, thus, the quietness, ever present,

Is all that manifests.

Perhaps a day, along the far future,

In history, posthumously, it would be read.

Unearthing the Earth.

Composed on January 12, 2012. Inspired by the sight of the Dutch Cemetery, Cochin.

The coldness reflected off the greying tombstones.

The barren branch sheltered no crow.

Decaying memories buried beneath the decayed ground.

Carcasses of dreamed love, life hoped.

Unearthing the earth, secrets lie naked.

Death is not the dead end,

it is just an illusion of life abducted.

Photo courtesy: Google (hindu.com)

'Once bitten, twice shy'.

Composed on December 21, 2011.

You know you are in it.
You know you want to.
Then, what stops you,
What disarms you?

You were always so,
Impulse ruled your actions.
A walking contradiction,
When they called you a 'thinker'.

The smallest of things hurt,
But you never let it show.
Every time you wanted to talk,
The words were too slow.

And yet, today, you are afraid.
Afraid of climbing up the stairs.
For the further up you go, you know,
The further down you would lie.