Labyrinth
- 1. The Labyrinth Preface The Labyrinth contains Scenes from everyday Life. This is brought in front of your eyes by the means of poetry. It is a sight of a normal human being everyday, what he watches what he observes, its what we all see but fail to realize, and even if we do many of us fail to portray ourselves in the best of ways. Life gives us the opportunity to express ourselves and deliver the feelings and pass the message to others, which connects you in many ways. I believe my work of poems in The Labyrinth is a journey through a maze of life and how one is stuck in that maze. The scenes portrayed are one’s perceived and felt by me and others in many ways I hope that everyone who reads them realizes that it is written from a very open perspective and a simple vision.
- 2. Lost Everyone say’s I am Lost Lost in thoughts, Lost in a world Fail to realize why everything looks so blurred I want to see, but hands shut my eye I want to speak but voice is unheard Lost in the crowd Nowhere to be seen Nowhere to be heard Just another day Just another man Difference is differentiated in boundless ways The one’s who realize the potential are few Everyone is just a part of another crew Walking the known streets walked everyday Yet I tend to stray away A path so familiar yet so faint. It seems like a glass half full yet seems half empty A simplicity way to see eternity Yet people stray away We still doubt Still we follow Heart is hollow Tough to swallow Everyone’s Lost!
- 3. Alone I walked alone All Alone Never felt so Lone Home Alone In the room On the road I laid on the bed alone I felt silence creeping over I was alone I walked on the busy road Yet walked alone Felt the rush pass by I yet remained alone People came into my life I was a prisoner of silence I couldn’t speak No sound heard As I remained alone All Alone
- 4. Strange Friend A Sudden appearance into my life That created time unlike the uselessness It was a feeling so strong Felt completely like a new bond At times old When sounded Bold Is it true that they are very few Or We fail to realize that they exist For us they are new They seem strange But they feel old A strange face But a feeling bold A hand always there to hold Unlike the friend who is old He also gives you a scold When you catch a cold Difficult But true Strange friends are true
- 5. First Day Everyone is ready for the first day For the first moment Everyone is happy and gay Some are nervous and shy Some also sit down and cry Its never the first day As you are born every day You see life the way you want to You are the creator You are the Leonardo So trust yourself and Move On Just believe in yourself And Carry On
- 6. Distance It is not definite For the heart it is not the ultimate You never feel the same everyday You are not the same the each day Invention has taken place Graham Bell is in his place We are never far Got Plane and car Just Let me Know If you miss Me so For you My world Is flat Ill Pack my bags and run back fast It is not the Distance It was never ,and never will be..
- 7. Best for the last It tastes good. We will taste it It feels good. We will feel it. It smells good. We will smell it But we still leave it Life comes just this once We are given just that one chance We all know it Yet we leave for the last We can make them happy We know that well Though it smells well Our minds dwell We never believe in immortality But we act as if we do We are not insane But yet we act as if we do Humans, that’s we are called Humanity is still not on board Insanity remains the captain of the ship And Greed becomes the sailors on board We never accept that we are greedy Yet why do we save We do not wear the best everyday Why just in a party or a birthday Its never too late to realize That you never have to compromise Life is just this once Never leave the best for the last
- 8. Disconnected We all are so Disconnected In this world of Wireless Telecom The Internet and the Dot com Yet Everyone remains frustrated We have trains planes boats and cars Yet we remain so far We live with the passing hours Become a part of the system so far Forgetting someone has become so easy Even though he/she exists in my family All it takes is a phone call Yet we just take it easy Meeting the one’s only on certain occasions Missing the opportunity will relate to forgetfulness Making 500 friends on facebook is easy Making an effort to keep in touch is not a necessity?? Why move on when you cant carry on Why say Yes when you cant accept Why hear when you cant listen Hypocrisy reigns in every segment of life It is a fact, which we just don’t realize Staying connected is just simple All it takes is a click of a button
- 9. The walk along the seashore Oh! What a view, Thank god its not pay per view I looked and stared at its magnitude With No show and no Attitude Rustling down the rocks, Beneath the soil Over the pebbles Everywhere it stalks I sat down with a friend Long lost still held my hand I looked deep in the eyes The rays were to make me stand I spoke in the remaining silence We never spoke Yet had long conversations I asked for answers But got more questions I tried to solve But left unsolved That’s the way it works, I thought Maybe I shouldn’t have sought Seeking for answers is what he taught But yet gave me answers like a robot Weird personality he keeps My friend is whom everyone seeks Do try meeting him if you want to know more Just take a walk along the seashore
- 10. Waiting At The Bus Stop Early in the morning and Late at night I just wait, for its sight At the Bust stop As usual it never is on time Makes us wait Realizing the fact that we are helpless Many do pass by Yet we wait for the one If it does not arrive We board none Rustling of leaves Screeching Cars Empty Cans Broken jars It’s a different atmosphere Everyone looks in one direction Then the hand Hands ticking by Legs banging the floor We all know one thing for sure That we all are.. Waiting at the bus stop
- 11. Headphones You make me seem like a girl With all the twists and curls I wear it Seem deaf I do not care I do not fear Its with me That’s all I care Provides melody A vision for life A moment of peace An instance of joy Different from the rest Lost in the thoughts Yet we stay Much in the present It’s whispers into our ears Yet we are aware through the sight We know the moments pass by But with the melody and joy They do not make us deaf.. Its what we do not hear What we filter through our brains It’s a filter A visionary My headphones
- 12. Doubt I am late, quite late Its dark, walking through a park My eyes roll My head turns I am in doubt With friends, partying Get calls from home Everyone is doubting When in the air or while walking on the street We still think to breathe Is it the human creed? We have lost hope completely We pray yet lost in the fray We are keen, to the extent that, We believe the unseen. Is this what we live for Or is it what we feel A state of metamorphosis Or A burning inside we feel? I always see in those eyes Filling up the emptiness more They are so sore Yet filled with Lies Still in Doubt??
- 13. High Speed I never thought about it. Not even a bit It was just the time When I felt there was no time I felt the rush of air With no moment to spare Felt the smell of rose With no time to sit with it and pose I looked at the beach Still out of my reach Funny, it was just a mile Only took me a while The water dropped from the sky Felt as if the angels cry Walked along the busy street To meet the tension’s treat It only takes a second If you’d reckoned To look around for a bit Stare and sit for a bit Looking at the unseen Listening the unheard Feeling the untouched Tasting the new flavours Stepping a Step Back From High Speed
- 14. The Beggar Willy they called him William was his name Everyone thought It was Mexico from where he came HE roamed on the streets On the streets of London Walked with dignity A Smile on his face HE never asked for money Yet he was poor For he had no family Except a group of four He was rich, once A day when he laughed A day when he cared He day when he stared HE was not aware Of whet he hade become He just moved on As life was what he had become
- 15. It was a usual pint He had enough mint Never did he go more Neither bit less He often walked around the church Just couldn’t pass through the doors There was enough taken Couldn’t dare to give more He just asked Always asked for one thing Walked across with the group of four Thought he ever had a family
- 16. Dot Its carried everyday Weather you sit Or weather you play Its there in your system You know it exists You fail to accept If it still persists Failure is just another step to success That is easy to hear Difficult are things to execute Requires Labour , Pain & Effort You Have to become the society Its important to become a part Some call it evil Some a boon It exists everywhere We can see The unseen We know the unknown Yet we feel saturated Living in a globe We are yet a dot
- 17. Connection Every hour of the day passes by Seconds, minutes hours just fly I stare out of the window Looking at the birds fly Never saw the same bird twice Living in the world of deception Yet we are complete Money is the source and energy A source so powerful Connecting souls worldwide Completing the Incomplete Giving a beggar a dollar makes him rich Taking away a few from a millionaire makes him poor in anger Debts creates quarrels Having none is no good If it persists a probability of various possibilities arise. Freedom is not free, but comes with a price Liberty is not liberated Everything comes with a price It is not the president who rules Not even the people That is the point when we see You never receive a meal for free IBM, Microsoft Apple, Are the new religions DOW, NASDAQ are the new Gods Pay more & you are in the best place in Heaven If not you are going to suffer hell in paradise.
- 18. Connection is lost in a very big loophole Myspace and Facebook are the new Meetings have become few Dinners, Family occasions and siblings were the talk of the past What is the new connection? I still cannot judge, When I think deep I end up becoming a creep I crawl and creep, Just to find A connection to the past for the present & future
- 19. Sadness Gazing out without a doubt Just looked out with no second thought NO fear No pain Just lost in vain Had no thoughts for the first time that made me smile I just stood still and gazed out for a while I clearly understood what was happening to me Yet I wanted my mind to be completely free I never expected such things happening around With no breath or sound It still remained around Mind Wandering in a bound I wanted it yet profound Not in a bound Wandering Around I seek and seek Until I just closed my eyes and got lost Lost in very deep In a thought so deep, didn’t realize I was in a sleep It creeps over many a times, Just pulls away all your energy You hardly speak You hardly talk All you do is weep But that is just another emotion Caused due to commotion In the traffic of life This is just another strife
- 20. Realizations turn to reality Songs turn to sounds No grey hounds No long bounds All the same, it not a shame We remain plain, Yet in vain Insane
- 21. Another day in the train Sat with jack on the train It moved on Jack said wait, hold on Let me move on I asked him why?, He started to cry, Replied, It’s the train of life Not my type, No complaints No arguments either Well its life So why bother, why cry? But Yet a feeling so weird So different Everyday is new I remain the same old in the crew A different train But the same me I wish, said he I pull the chain, and let it be Get down & move on On the platform of life Where there’s no life
- 22. I waited for him And saw him go I pulled his hand But he let me go It was different Something, which I could not believe But it just happened And it startled me In the Train of Life.. !!!
- 23. Anger in Pain Lying down on the street Or crying down on the stairs Weather you are bleeding in Pain Or dying in pain You are almost left in vain Blood pushes up Gushes hard Towards the heart Towards the mind and body Killing the soul Making Purity so impure Making you visibly blind Sounds heard bout not listened Words spoken but makes no sense Just acts like arrows, piercing hearts
- 24. Never has this emotion let anyone Forget or Forgive Few do succeed We call them heroes We see that flower bloom Yet we stay in gloom Realizing yet remaining unrealized Being totally unaccomplished While accomplishing the emptiness Its not as complicated to get out of it All it takes is a bit of endurance An effort to resist and sustain To feel the pain and yet gain To yet walk and smile in the Rain
- 25. Ego She laughed and walked away Not looked back While the world turned black It seemed as if it was totally her fault I tried to put the blame on me But yet I felt incomplete I did not yet feel free It was no co-incidence Not a chance by which I knew I was wrong Neither of us were right She tried teaching me a lesson While in her enduring pain Which I never learnt to gain It felt like pulling a bucket out of the well When the hand started to swell You get empty returns While your hand yet burns All I wanted was to be more human To be me But she never gave me a chance to be me Why, did she do this to me? Why was she behaving like this Or is this normally her behavior? Oh I see, Its not just me Im not the only one who is not free She is killing everyone in the sea.
- 26. Silence in the Dark Everybody wakes up in the morning Goes for the working Goes for shopping Then the eating Having the sleeping The meeting The chatting Loosing the Timing The Loving The Caring The Charming Running After the Shining The financing The building The partying The minting
- 27. Laughing on the Killing The dying The non-sense-ing The bullshit-ing Crying on Nothing Sleeping on Everything Worshipping Something Cursing Your Thing Yet Moving
- 28. Smile when Happy Laugh When Sad The thought makes one wonder Why to ponder? Just keep it under Sometimes you may just smile for the sake of it Yet you would like to hide it in front of everyone Its Simple A process like 1-2-3 Make your emotions more free Don’t Keep it under Don’t Ponder Don’t Wonder Just be what you would love to be Feel the gush of the water on your face The drops pouring down And touching where you want it to be When others cry You just don’t cry along Sing a song Move along World is a small place Life is a short pace Its all moving in a haste So please do not waste Enjoy every bit if it Let the lamp be lit Don’t just stare and sit Go
- 29. Twice Bitten Twice Shy It was never a feeling Shot under so deep It came to begin From beginning till the end A friend or a foe Both Sneaking on toe Making Mistakes To Befriend Confused was I To understand their emotions Made Mistakes in realizing the facts It was never too late Never too bad I was never again too sad Cuz love was one thing I never had I yet looked up with hope To gain some momentum in life The plain black sky Looked down at me with a gasp of sigh
- 30. There are moments which show you a path This is the one to follow Some do, While others don’t A few move on Others get stuck It quite difficult to be who you want to be Yet you remain cursed You would love to be happy Yet entangled in this tragedy
- 31. Loud Silence I did not quit Here where I started A challenge what I sought I never gave up, Yet in the battle While other gasp & startle Nobody understood, Not even A few The message was yet for just a few But I guess I failed to reach out to them all too It was just plain words Alphabetically mistaken Grammatically driven A challenge That I keep within A driven thought for life Will keep moving And As the Silence Gets louder My Voice Will be heard in the crowd
- 32. Fate An anonymous feeling yet feels so known Deep inside us within our soul We cannot Live without even we grow old We think it’s the only reason to loose or succeed A Hope that lies always in deep We never loose it & think its true Only to realize at the end we’ve been a fool Sometimes in a dilemma, weather its all true Sometimes in anger why its all blue Sometimes in pain while its all bruised An old man once said all that glitters is not gold What’s in this saying which makes this so bold While a feeling yet old, Uncontrolled People born and die everyday Some in hunger some in pain Some die in war while other in vain For them fate is insane Asked a beggar he called it life Asked a husband he called his wife Asked a mother she just smiled At the end I just realized All through our lives we live through There is always something new to go through Something to explore ,Something to learn Every moment is worth to earn Fate is just a mandatory A feeling residing for temporary
- 33. Ultimatum We often reach to conclusion Something, which we do not even, have clue of Things we don’t wonder about Don’t Care about Yet it’s the ultimatum It’s a tradition followed, The last word to be heard in the house Never asked why? When asked was slapped and made to cry Even death would not be so ruthless Why are they acting so careless Who so brutal? Things can get at times fatal Not asking for sympathy Not trying to gain the media hype Its just a plain question asked to everyone Have they just become “someone” Why such a change in everything Why such a change in everyone They all see but do not observe They Observe but never act Leaders speak but do not act Actors perform But never act Charity shows are done everyday Yet millions die of hunger each day Drugs Thugs Mugs Its all another way of avoiding the facts Another way of survival
- 34. Nobody is born a thief or murderer Society is the one who creates them over years Money is a slow poison While people die in recession Everyone is a prey to it in one way or the other The monetary chain is for nobody to escape Yet we create the ultimatum Yet we call hundreds wrong while it was just one We do hundred wrongs all under the sun Its us who are to blame Now why are you hiding your face in shame? Whom are you finding to blame? News is just another poison so switch on your television sets Newspapers should be used to clean toilet seats See, for yourself and believe in your instincts People need things to talk about That’s why we are called social animals But try and be more social and less of an animal
- 35. Insanity Truly it is becoming a reality Hopes turning into catastrophe Truth fading away, turning into destiny Fate the only string attached with Humanity They Shoot They Kill They don’t think That’s why they will Even though You say no They still Drill Social groups, Activists, Media, Government Everyone is confused Blames soar from one person to the other From Cultures to Societies Becoming a sea of blame and suspicion At the end you are floating in the sea They pick up guns to find an answer They throw bombs to give an answer Wars & Terrorism has become a poem Enthusiasm is just rising within Fire burning deep within Two sides to this One Anger and the other Pain The latter enduring all of it Te rest lying yet in vain Nobody is left a winner Because Nobody is left to win
- 36. Continuing this will lead to the end of the world This is true though it sounds absurd No doubt we are to be blamed for it A lot of said is unsaid Silence is still speaks louder than words But Actions screams too, and its too loud Some questions still remained unquestioned Some Actions still remain unanswered Some beliefs remain unquestioned Some people remained unchanged The list is long Can go on all night long Better we carry on Even you learn to move on The end to insanity in nowhere But in humanity Be more human , not insane
- 37. Wasted It was a life was gifted well presented In the form of a soul A body to maintain A heart to sustain Everything went in proportion All was in good combination We believed in perfection Not in satisfaction Pleasure and Luxury became the ultimate aim Poverty and Hunger was the least to maintain Nothing was in sight but there was pain Money was rain, blood went down the drain Cant I asked , but even HE seemed to be afraid Looking at the Dead, Seemed to be loosing his Head. Assumptions now became reality Invisibility became cruelty Nothings left but insanity
- 38. Broken Heart I Love you These three words took the breath out of you Sometimes Its Me Rest its YOU Couldn’t Sleep, Couldn’t Eat Just couldn’t stand on my feet Looking at the clock Made me still as a rock I wondered why I thought about you more than a friend Sometimes I just drive my car upto the dead end. Its an uneasy decision To tell you my situation You just made things different A heart which cannot be mended It was just so fast That I couldn’t even ask. Now I just stay With a Broken Heart All alone In this Arc
- 39. Is Everybody’s Lonely? That’s what most of them say But all of them are just lost astray Some of them are Some of them aren’t They look fine , but simply defy That looks are deceptive and make them cry Some say that they had enough Some said they cried enough It is sad to have sorrow all around When there is a lot to be done and found Nobody looses if they try But they don’t that’s why they cry Many just give reasons, as they are weak Escaping the moment is all they seek Sadness is like a poison , its taking over the whole world But yet many have not lost hope that’s why we are yet around My words are bitter and many will disagree But this is the truth, and we have to become free The choice is yours Nobody is Lonely With Billions of us in this planet that’s not a possibility!
- 40. A Huge Mistake Sometimes we really do What we cannot undo It is hard to say sorry Hard to not worry Difficult to resist What you cannot persist Easy to dwell When the pain swells You just have a moment to forget But you can’t help but regret A pain resides deep Deep enough to steal away your sleep What is it that you have done What can’t be undone What is that you said, which makes you so sad That you wish you could make it un said Some wishes just remain floating in the air You just have to believe, stop and not care.
- 41. A Dream to High Everybody Dreams, A dream to Achieve I consider it normal to build castles in the air At which we can sit and stare Why have those innocent dreams lost after 8 or 9 Why do we fear of owning a plane and ; Sit yet in the office till 5 We were fearless, carefree could be a bird or a bee Flying cars and abundance was always on our mind Why has it suddenly become a mockery of a kind I dream about abundance Not for me alone, but for everyone on this planet Many will laugh when they read this line But they fail to realize its not a mockery of any kind Let us promise ourselves today , that We will never fear to dream. A Dream to save the world A Dream to help A Dream to smile and make others smile A Dream to Live our Dreams
- 42. Moods It is something that changes everyday Sometimes happy, Sometimes Gay An emotion that feels so true That at times we love it too Never saw an angry man smile But saw a laughing face cry Sometimes silence says it all At times words mean nothing at all Just a blink could mean a thousand things Where as a smile could mea a million things We pass though a different one every day Just like a special mood for a Sunday Saw a kid playing on the street Hopping and jumping while on his feet An emotion so happy could make anyone smile But while leaving a small, tear in your eye.
- 43. Never ending Story A Bolt from the blue But it is true We live to see We breathe to feel Every second brings us close to something Every moment pulls us apart Moments of Joy, Moments of Peace Emotions felt, Grief released Few are those who understand it true, Rest of us, just live in the blue We have become uncontrollable to our own actions Sometimes we fear while otherwise we have a reason Even After death we have a story Heaven/hell will lead us to glory Why do we know so much Which makes us worth not Knowing Education achieved is still not enough We still remain a student but don’t know enough A phase which we call Life Is more than a poets word to describe.
- 44. Just A thought makes me worry Why is life a never ending Story?