Joseph Jayakumar Poems

I shall still live a life without life
If you never talk
And I shall only live a life full of life
If you talk
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How much long shall you flow with the tide?
Try at least once to swim against the current
As you have only one youth to experiment,
So come out and blossom from the hide.
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Never did I blossom.
I could have drifted far away
To become a robust tree.
Instead I fell near to mother
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I see no terrain
Full of joy and free from pain.
Those reaching heaven may claim to gain,
Yet to reach there you have to be sans air lying plain.
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It was always my dream,
To drift alongside a stream,
Into the ocean, no one to follow.
Alone, just me and my canoe,
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You are fond off me,
It shows from your cheerful glee.
I feel the same, though higher in degree.
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