Childhood

I see you grow, spread smile
Try hard and Walk Slow
Every now and then
You take a quantum leap to glow

Memories of your previous self
Slowly begins to fade to insignificance
I try to focus on your current feats
And small steps towards independence

Your toys change every so often
Unable to catch attention for long

I may not smile so easily
or open up myself to others
I am still trying hard to grow
In games that will fade to insignificance

My paths my learning will not guide you
In your coming day and age
May be you will have imprints from past
of best parts from the time we shared

© Ratish

Centring

I heard the tune
Again..
And rushing back
All the moments came

Thread that was broken
Sometime ago
Became a stream
And started to flow

Was lost in the wilderness
of this world
Suddenly I stared at
Me

No joy, no sense of loss
recognition of self
Is all I've got

I became me
How simple it can be
I just realized
I am eternity

© Ratish

Words

The words that I put together
Are not deep and meaningful
But dry and incoherent

They lack logic, rhyme & reason
Strongly biased by who I am
And totally oblivious of others

Yet I can defend it, if needed
With rhetoric & hyperbole
Against one and all

With you however I don't need them
But to be playful
At times

Do not care for my words
They are useless
If possible be comfortable with my silence


© Ratish

Color of sky

I saw through my minds eyes
The thousand colors of blue sky
The lights, shades and frothing mist
I knew I understood the gist

Then I watched my mind do tricks
Revealing the patters of my prejudice
Moments ago - of things I was sure
Were fools belief - no less, no more

Now I don't have any fixed view
The sky may be grey, black or blue
Or it may be of no particular color
Changing with time, place and weather

© Ratish

Poem - Part We Must

Days that are most hard to go by -
are the ones in which you have to say goodbye
to someone who is close to your heart
of your life who has been a part

Memories of time spent together are fresh
- as if it happened just today
But fate has brought us to a crossroad
From where we have to part our ways

Go my friend with a smile on your face
May success kiss your feet
Remember us all who are left back here
Until the day again we meet

© Ratish

Poem -Souveniers

Time has come for us to part
There is smile on my face, tears in my heart
Here are a few souvenirs to remember me by
I give you the stars, I give you the sky

Stars don't shine or show the way
They twinkle constantly from far away
What is sky but a vague concept
- It turns blue as it gains some depth

You won't have to search too hard
I'll be in flowers, I'll be in cards
I'll be the journey you undertake
I'll be in your inadvertent mistakes

Remember me in clown; in an innocent child
In foolish talks and schemes gone wild
Remember me in carelessness and arrogance
In songs, in music and in dance

These presents are of no significance
for those who don't value trivial things
A dreamer has but his dreams in hand
to give, to share and to expand

The final judgment is for you to take
to keep these wares or to forsake
Rest assured you'll always be there
in my dreams, memories and in my prayers




© Ratish

Poem - The Apparatus

The apparatus

An intricate recorder

To reorganize the frames

And put perceived reality in order

The skill – an acquired art

To focus on the desired shot

Light, sound, setting and aperture

To capture that perfect inverted picture

The moments, people & places

Frozen in time & space

For our viewing pleasure

When we find the leisure

Random images are retained

By this apparatus at days end

What happens to events that fade away

Without leaving its trace in any way?

Is there a thrash can in out head

Where lost memories are constantly fed?

How it matters what we retain or discard

When every apparatus ends in a junkyard?

© Ratish

Poem - The Gist

I draw the same breath (as you)
to feed my consciousness
And my desire leads
To my chosen indulgence

Unrealized
Our lives appear isolated flicker
In essence
We are the same flame

I exist - creating, being, discarding
reaching out and contemplating ...
In you
I recognize a part of me

© Ratish

Poem Born Again

Another day flies by
Another night sets in
Sun and moon r like
Lights that flash & blink

Do not know who I am
Do not even care
Another life I live
Another truth or dare

Each day I die again
Each moment I am born
Another smile I paste
When the last one is torn

What I have to show
In so many years
Are a few moments shared
Of my hopes and cheers

Do not know where to go
All I can do is walk
Another path I take
May be it leads somewhere

© Ratish

Poem Wheel of Life

The wheel is on its roll
We are on different side
You yet to take a step
And I at journeys end

When you pick and hold
Morning dew in you hands
Hope you have no regrets
of the life you have spent

Time flys fast my child
And the day is not too far
When wonder will fade
From your inquisitive eyes

You play this game alone
And learn rules hard way
I can only share mine
May be it will help someday

Live your life as it comes
Be always true to self
Follow your inner voice
Above everything else

© Ratish

Musings

Being inquisitive is our second nature. There is always a drive to learn and know more. One part that is often left unexplored is the terretory of self exploration.

Often times we tend to look outside world for inidicators and benchmarks for this. We need to realize that our basics premise for leading our life needs to be figured out first. This will only come from time spent on pondring our things that matter to us and making changes in our outlook based on the outcome.

Our behavior is reflection of what we tend to think in any given situation. Hence first step is to take time out to reflect on our life.
Where we are..
Where we want to go..
Is it reslly where we want to go..


© Ratish

Poem - What I might have been....

What I might have been...

Today again I spend my day
Chasing the shadows away
Doing the best I can
Faking a smile and being sane

I pick the pieces from the floor
Of trampled smithereens of broken soul
And try not to become
The kind of man that I am

I still latch on to a hope
That some day I will easily cope
With these nonsensical thing I do
To prove to self that I am true

When I turn and see all around
Crescendo of this useless sound
I take a refuge in space within
For a glimpse of what I might have been....

© Ratish

This is just how it is...

The way it is

On a normal day
I think of you
As source of strength

An image I carry
That pulls me through
This maddening world

Deep down I know
U too are battered
By passage of time

The spark in eyes
Is not the same as think
Its shine is lost
With every blink

I am scared
To reach out
And touch u now

Being selfish
Is what comes easily
To me some how.

A flash of YOU
Once a while
Is what I need

May be we
have nothing else
left to share

Than memories of
some unknown past
That we think we shared




© Ratish

Poem - All and everything

The scent applied
fades
then disappears altogether

What you learn
goes to waste
With each passing day

What u accumulate
stacks up....
And builds into useless heap

Visions of yesterday
faces today's
harsh realities

So have fun
and forget
All and everything......

© Ratish

Poem - Random definitions..

Faith is like a bait fish nibbles
Before it knows its too late

Love is something that envelops your being
and resides in a fertile place

Time is something that is fictional
A fallacy of the brain

Space is all pervading
The truth behind the maze

© Ratish