Vines

Vines

By: Akhilesh Agarwal

 

Blinding lights

This city hits me

With full force

It drags me

In its vines

All your love

It seeps through me

Into the abyss

It invites me

In its vines

Maybe I shall find there

What I seek in thee

Or maybe I shall not

Ever be free

Swollen bones, Empty lives

"Look around, can’t you see?

The tender strings, His eyes"

I am already

In His vines

 

 

Empty Glass

Empty Glass

By: Akhilesh Agarwal

 

When you have got no money

When you have got no sense

Just a little broken heart

That’s not ready to mend.

 

Yeah, that is when you smile so

The tears in your eyes row

You know good is coming

You just got to wait, oh.

 

Don’t close your eyes if not the sun

Because then you miss the stars too

Don’t close your heart, spill everything

So that you don’t miss her terribly too.

 

 

Feather Light

Feather Light

By: Akhilesh Agarwal

Like a feather upon this world he lay

Gently, so unsurely

He thought he knew everything

Swiftly and sugary

He was at the precipice, he knew

Falling to the deep

But there was something about the height

The fear creep, the fear creep.

The steel melting away and resolve giving

May he fall to fail

He closed his eyes and fell into infinite

But minister, there was no bail!

What Does It?

"What lies before us and what lies beyond us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. " -Ralph Waldo Emerson

What Does It?

By: Akhilesh Agarwal

Faith makes you do wonderful things, they say

I hear them with hands in my lap

Stories in my eyes swim away with softest of breezes

Hold them, they are a trouble worth

And they again say, keep faith

I hear them with hands in my lap

They say death is after all just the beginning

And everything of past aren't a trouble worth

Faith will get you through this, they cry

They are like black clouds in a golden sky

They keep me from truth, they know it too

In times like this, only time shall do.

Kept And Made

Kept And Made

By: Akhilesh Agarwal

If only you could wait till eternity, I swear I'd be there 

You know i keep all the promises, you know I do 

For now they keep me shackled and chained 

I beg them to let me go but they won't listen 

Cant they hear my voice? A whisper, a soft breeze 

But it is still there, etched and wretched, yet there 

Will you try to convince them and more importantly- 

convince me for i am scared that you are just an illusion 

And that i shall lose everything for you.

Tempted

• Tempted
  By: Akhilesh Agarwal
  
  It calls for me, calls me to come chase
  The voice so sweet, so tempting heart
  I hear it in me, I hear it out
  Wont you tell it to stop? I could do without
  The melodious tune burns my veins 
  For I cant go there I just so cant
  As it is now in the dark and my soul
  Cant handle the suspense anymore
  So let it shut and stop giving me hope
  For I might follow it someday and burn me whole.

Delight

Delight
By: Akhilesh Agarwal

Love is not as they say a delight
For seldom you feel the light
Believe me when I say
Though the will, never a way

Keep your glasses packed and wine-
down the drain
Sanity is the best addiction
Sing the merry way

Love is not as they say a delight
For forbidden it is in daylight
So keep your hopes packed and life-
down the drain.