Richa Tiwari Joshi

Life is a blessing and I realize it every day…
I realize it every day, when relish a good meal...
I realize it every night, when I enjoy a cozy bed...
An early cold winter morning, gives me the message that life is truly a blessing...
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The sun will shine everyday to keep me warm
The moon will be full and bright to keep company with twinkling stars.
The birds will sing and the flowers will smile…
Every moment, nature will sprinkle some more beauty to this world from its magical womb and in midst of everything life will go on….
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The sleepless night of yesterday was so full of you…..
It felt so right to touch your hand once more in that dim corner of mind
Nights spent staring at the full moon by the side of that corner window flashed back and your face danced on the heartbeat till the eyelids dropped to sleep.
I wonder how life would have been, if only you could listen to the words unsaid
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All dreams were like floating thoughts here and there in the endless sky of life
We met them all now and then in the journey called life
The spark of first love and death of love in the bondage of relationships
The mourning of lover and sprouting of a new bud in shape of a new love
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When the reason of being together is lost, then it is time to move on
Do not feel guilty my friend, it is an indication to look beyond
Look beyond these bleeding wounds and see that new path
This path shall lead you to self
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It is again one of the days, when the soul is restless and the rhythm is uneasy
The pattern of thoughts pile one upon another and the mind relives the dream of last night
I waited for long at the gate of that last train and then touched you for one last time
You did not stop me when I tried to move on,
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Whispers of your promise dangled around for long, as the world of dream vanished from the core of eyes, dropp by drop.
The lines of your face slipped through the tip of hands, day by day.

A World was woven around you, where hope shined between the green leaves and love danced on every tune,
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I saw you mom hiding under the bed so that father can't beat you up,
I saw you crying silently so that he shouldn't wake up and start the fight again,
I was too small to stop him, my fists too weak to punch him,
so, when he threw you out in dark, I cried softly and pretended to sleep until dawn,
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I have got bruises all over
I’ve felt this pain for so long that sometimes it does not hurt anymore
I longed for things which now do not matter
I cried for broken dreams which were easily replaceable
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You were a little girl playing in my garden swinging high
you dreamt and believed in what you saw
you talked to fairies and had faith in Santa Claus
your laughter filled my house and your presence blessed the world like fragrance of the flowers
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one day sunshine will touch my shivering soul
and the frost around my exixtence will melt away
one day i would be able to shun away the cobwebs
and feel the bright light of knowledge wash over me
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I sit here under the warm winter sun, flicking through the pages of the memoir of your pain,
i see the hungry bellys, and sins on the name of God,
I can't reach you there but your agony and cries of pain haunt me all the while,
I am desperate to help so I just close my eyes, fold my hands and ask my lord to grant you peace, love and harmony.
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Sometime in life, when you really get comfortable
You forget to express the gratitude you feel and
You don’t thank enough the person, you share your life with…
Today I want to thank you for what you are,
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God created love and we created money,
and mostly money gets thicker than love
People leave, love for money
and love gets wounded every time you cheat for money
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You wouldn’t know the pain of a crow, if you were born a swan
How would you comprehend the meaning in his cawing, when your sophisticated ears only knew the notes of rhymes…
You wouldn’t know the hurt in those small eyes if you never had to go eating the dead carcass to survive and sit unwelcomed on the dirty terraces to unwind
The bright white of a swan is beautiful yet the black of crow will balance it all out,
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What I see in those eyes can not bee seen by you all,
Those eyes talk to me telling me all, that no one knows,
Your face is a mask, but your eyes are the truth of your soul,
They show me the void deep inside that no one can fill,
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I wake up in the morning and sometimes see you there lying by my side
The dream of last night still alive in my eyes
I go through the pages of my life and see you leaving me without saying goodbye
Why on earth, our scenes together reels often like a good old movie in the timeless theater of my mind
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The spark in my eyes left me forever, the day she went away
We were so good together lost in our world
our eyes shone with the glitter of dreams
It all got lost, the moment she went away
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She is a song of yesterday yet it gets played softly at the back of my mind
Her warmth has now turned into cold ashes of past, and,
She is floating in a river far away from my sight
All her incomplete dreams knock softly inside the closed closet of her life
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She felt like an incomplete painting and her life, an incomplete song,
She dared, touch that hollow space in her heart and felt emptier every time he took her in his arms
She often closed her eyes and thought of that lost love, in the moist darkness of those nights
She pushed herself hard to love someone; she didn’t, and felt guilty every time she failed.
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