Life You Call it?

Life You Call It

By: Akhilesh Agarwal

That misty sky and that misty land
Those misty eyes and those misty tears
The hope of dawn moves you along
On this harsh path we call Life

Those sudden accusations and dreadful attributions
The love of them, the loss of them
That dreadful nights in Fate's lap
Murdering ourselves in what we call Life

That aching pain in middle of our chest
And those hopeless sighs in middle of nowhere
Breathe in and out for you are here
And you have to survive this torture called Life

These Memories And Little Things

These Memories And Little Things
By: Akhilesh Agarwal

In silence of nights and darkness of skies
Is the time these memories rise
A lady dreams about running in wild
Searching for her long buried little child
An addicted teenager dreams about how bad was his fate
The day he had tried his first cigarette
And the forlorn husband about the day his wife ran away
And so hopelessly hopes that she had come back a day
And an old lady of those wicked wars
in which her husband joined those shiny stars
But among them all a little soul sleeps
Thinking of how beautifully his mother sings

Unnoticeable Disfigurement

"Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week." - Spanish Proverb

A man, too good to be true, scarred for life
In his rush, hit a truck and lost a leg
And then spilled more tears over his departing wife
His love for her: an unnoticeable disfigurement

Children threw stones at him, to check if he could run again
As he limped his way across the lane
Crutches as support, matters were worsened by rain
His courage against the odds: an unnoticeable disfigurement

From his increasing loneliness, no one could save
And in a dusky night he hanged himself
People exclaimed how weak he was over his grave
His struggle for fairness: an unnoticeable disfigurement

Immortal

Immortal
By: Akhilesh Agarwal

I take my life and I take my soul
In hope it finds another towards whole
And Forever I shall live, Immortal I am
For I stand above the stars and brighter I shine
I shine my sins and I shine my struggles
I shine on my foes and I shine on my lovers
Meager as they are, oblivious as I am
But Forever I shall live, Immortal I am
I Live in these rhymes and those tattered pages
For good or bad, I shall be remembered for Ages
God I worship and Devil I be
Good are my intentions, Evil every deed
And I shall live in their memories, too deep to forget
Future Familiar shall hear my stories with wide eyes
And for all my wrongs and rights, I don't regret
As Forever I shall live, Immortal I am.

Cursed

"Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires." - William Shakespeare, Macbeth

Cursed
By: Akhilesh Agarwal

Sunlight in my eyes burns in my vision down
I am short-sighted, but aren't we all now?
Never really understood the results of my deed
"Ask me my worth before you ask me my creed."

All the mysteries of life seem so overblown
Death is coming, ever should have known
But before it stings me and I fade away
Could I get a paper? There's so much to say....

If you ever look at my photo and say," Oh, such he died,
Horrible! But serves him right for so much he lied!"
There are worse things a human is guilty for
It is the hands of guilt banging on your door

Don't ever lay roses on my grave, they'd wrinkle away
Finally at peace, beneath His Heaven I lay
And never did i pray, not a single verse
Because god was in me and I was simply His curse.

Farewell School

Not a poem, but still something that really matters!

Today we are young, we are hopeful, we are determined and friends, today we say goodbye. Its been many many years since I set my foot into this building and ofcourse i dont remember but my mother tells me i was crying on my first day to school. I wonder why? Maybe it was the fear of the unknown or the pain of separation, however temporary, or simply because i might have heard then too that school sucks! And look today i dont want to leave, go beyond this moment as history has come again and i am again diving headfast into the unknown. It frightens me and it scares me. But looking back i feel proud of me and everybody of you. We have come a long way and we have become more better, stronger and wiser. But this is not all that we take with us. We take with us something that can't be bought: memories. However hard we try to forget we can never forget these days. But its universe's law that says that change is the only constant. And from the next day everything shall change, for better or for worse. All i can advise you is have the fire, be a force of nature, be unstoppable, take risks, make million mistakes but have the courage too to accept it and move on. So lets remember our past, celebrate our present and oh well, who the heck cares about future!

Throwing Stones

Throwing Stones 
By: Akhilesh Agarwal

You have been forgiven, you have been forgotten 
Since you walked out of the doors of my heart 
Dont regret me, dont regret us, and dont you regret time- 
That we spent together, can i sill call you mine? 
I was a wizard and you were my magic 
Left in a downpour with nothing but a broken wand 
I am running for shelter, running at your door 
So open it wide and i will wipe the bloodstains off the floor 
I shall be your rainbow, or other thousand things- 
That shall make your head spin and heart sing 
Only if you tell me you'd love me till he do us part 
Rather than throwing stones at my feeble heart