Om Chawla

Often have we seen a bird
flying far, again and again
collecting straws to weave a nest-
A shelter to lay eggs
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In the dimly lit corridors of the hospital
lurked a malefic figure-
restless fidgety in the grip of passion.
Unmindful of the eerie environ
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Yonder in the West,
Just before it sets,
Sun lingers, as if to cast one last look
Over what it illumined through the day.
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There besides the trunk of a leafless tree
Lies a human figure in beastly nudity.
It's breathing yet; it's not dead
But no one bothers, for them it is dead
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Peaceful repose of tranquility,
mirroring blissful divinity.
Heartwarming look of an innocent face
endearing charming bewitching grace;
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Holy river and holier places
Centers of pilgrimages
Of devout devotees through the ages
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Life after life soul transmigrates
Carrying the burden of its karmic traits
The way we live our next life shapes.
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Behind the temple near railway track
A cluster of shanties with dwellers overpacked:
Ill clad, in tatters they shiver in winter
Famished faces, victims of hunger
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In my sleep I heard you sing
Of your silent earnest longing
Reverberating through my dream
Summoning me to your embrace.
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Cover her eyes, her stony looks,
She is dead;
And ring the bell for she is dead
Where one age ends the other begins
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It's mid of night
Dark and still all around
Something hurts within
I know not why does it hound;
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I hold my pen to uncover the truth
O my countrymen, beware:
By unjustly claiming and self assuming
Inheritance to the halo of martyrdom
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Emerging from undetermined vortex
Sea waves rush towards its shore:
Relentlessly chasing one another
Never catching up, perishing at coast.
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Fret not at darkness it will pass,
Darkness is but a shadow of obstructed light,
Beyond darkness surely there is light,
It's proof enough that there is light.
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Hush hush voices
murmuring noises
A hall full of audience
filled with air of expectation
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Seriously jocular is my fancy's flight
O wiseman tell me if it be right.

Proton and neutron in an atom bind,
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When earth shakes in the womb of the ocean'
Swelling water surges in furious tides,
Boats and ships are torn asunder,
Coast and cities are ravaged and destroyed,
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Grieve not, O heart, for life is not lost
Life- just like a day,
That dawns at the horizon in the East
And sets at the horizon in the West
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Why and wherefore of creation
has defied human comprehension.
Mystics and sages have speculated
Scientists have deliberated.
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