Pramila Davidson

If I could, I'd touch the heart of bliss,
count the veins on a falling leaf,
catch a cloud from a brooding indigo sky,
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In the heart of darkness and silence,
Lies the iridescent soul of light.
Still center sprouting chaos,
Seeding sunbeams into a haze of translucent dreams,
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'I know the truth about heaven but
it's a fantasy that comforts the heart.'

Mirza Ghalib
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'I expect fidelity from someone
who can't spell the word.'

Ghalib
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'It takes a lifetime for a sigh to sink in,

I'll be dead in the split second it takes you
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'Love was never my destiny,

A longer life, a longer wait.'
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Love has turned me into a tramp,
There was a time when I was a man to be reckoned with.
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Pundits pore over tomes,
searching for jnan.
Confused, empty.
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I set out in search of evil,
Chasing shadows.
Mirror, mirror of the mind,
Who is the wickedest of us all?
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I laugh when I hear that the fish in the sea is thirsty,
You don't see the Real in your own home and wander from forest to forest confused.
Kabir will tell you the truth: Go where you will, to Benares or Mathura;
If you haven't found your soul, the world is a mirage.
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मेरे सर ताज, मै` तूझे सौ सलाम कर लेती
के काश तेरी पनाह मिल जाती
मगर तू तॊ यु दिलॊ जान मे समाया
के कही दिखा ही नही
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Darkness.
Dark night of the soul,
unlit by the shimmer of mythical Gods;
The wayward treacheries of the heart,
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