Eyes

Piercing through a sea of faces,

Eyes that hit a sullen heart,

Mellow down in a flushing rain;

Of soft notations and mysterious somethings.

Seated across a barricade of power,

They darted forth in cruel recklessness,

Driving up an untouched veneer to the pinnacle,

Of unknown pleasures and unfamiliar trepidations.

Blinded by the single slight,

One crept into dreamy fogginess

With throbbing thoughts from a single encounter,

Of enigma, of flawless madness.

By

Divya Rao

July 25, 2010

Chennai-Mumbai

Loyalty and Dilemma

A dilemma of choices poses threat

To an able mind with reason and practice -

To be or not to be asking the question,

Probes the mind in eternal conflict.

Memories from a beautiful past

Seem to threaten the existence,

Of promise of an opulent life.

Ahead lies assaying the two, a mountainous task no less.

Loyalty is no one-way street

It demands two minds progressing in tandem.

Cherished were those values, although now eroded

By toxic ways of a devious behemoth.

By

Divya Rao

July 25, 2010

Chennai-Mumbai

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Making a decision once out of a conflict can never be easy. Least of all when attachments hold you down and make you rethink about a word given, a promise made and a decision enunciated. An immediate thought occurred to me even as I was flying back home, back to all that stands for security and love. I had to pen the first words that hit my mind, even if it meant scribbling on the paper bag in the safety kit!