Alok Singhal

How far have we come?
To not to look back on what we left behind
Happiness is judged by the bourses
Our fates are decided by the downturn or an upsurge
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Of all the joys that I cherish most,
You come first, you come foremost
One look of yours makes me smile
One smile of yours makes my life so worthwhile,
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So easy for many of you but so hard for me to decide…
Shall I give to my mother who bore me, gave so much to see that I grow up to be a good human being?
To that little girl who used to play with me as if I was her only toy,
Or, to that girl in school who made my hear flutter for the first time
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I went on a journey...in the wilderness of my mind
Had never imagined on what all I would find
Never knew so many colours ever existed
Never knew so much I could do if I persisted
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Did I not wake up today as I do every day?
What causes a skipping of heartbeat?
Why I feel a different feeling?
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Buttons of my mind, are so diificult to find
Vainlessly thinking of things,
Whether they exist or they don't
With teo perfect eyes, I am blind
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You...it was only you who I could feel was mine..
But I didn't know that the twist of fate is such a swine..
You..left me with nothing but few thoughts sublime..
Don't You..remember the time..
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In the solitude of my heart I look for company
In the emptiness I find my friends
In the sea of mortals I find myself walking alone
I look for souls like me who look for souls …like mine
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From the dust I came
To the dust I will go back
For the time in between, dust to dust
Let me be free
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Try as much to make it stay,
It flutters as if to fly away,
Curbed it was for years together,
Still the shine remains in its feathers,
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In the loneliness of heart, I see the crowd of memories
People passing by or rather bypassing me,
Somehow I could not connect or communicate,
Not that I had nothing to say or offer,
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Pick up...
One by one..
Pieces of my broken heart
Use the petals of a flower
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You give me wisdom and I don't use it
You give me freedom and I abuse it
You give me choices and I still get them wrong
You give me voices and I can not still sing a song
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Just a momentous pause before my next leap...
Just some more time to get the divine sleep
I must stay strong to not let this chance gone
Just some more dark clouds for the sun to shine as it shone
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I never said I loved you
Coz it was so implied
And if I say I don't
It will be a lie
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About time to decide and follow a path….yet alone
Someone to walk with is long gone…
It’s always a long and lonely road to no where
Because everyone wants to reach some where
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The road that started from nowhere led me to an unknown sphere
The windings and turns gave me a reflection of unknown hues
My seemingly so colorless life showed psychedelic views
I was overwhelmed with feelings so hard to bear
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Let my ignorance speak of the wisdom you know not,
Let my naïve not make you think you are too wise,
For all you know ignorance and naivety is nothing but a disguise,
A garb to stay sane in your insane world,
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How I hate to see those dark clouds…..looming and obstructing the horizon,
Ruining all those efforts, hours of toil,
So true they say what comes must go back to the soil…
But a man's valor is his persistence, what he creates won't let anyone to spoil.
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In withered clothes and shambled looks
How graceful does he look?
No qualms no fears of today or tomorrow
He is so poor that he doesn't even have any sorrow
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