All Over Again

Yet again

Once more

Puzzled destiny

Yet again

Once more

Just truthful to myself

Yet again

Once more

I laugh at myself

Yet again

Once more

Misunderstood lot

Yet again

Once more

Me like a kid

Yet again

Once more

Suffering the hell

Still don’t I see

Some twilight in the horizon

God must be true

He cannot play dice!!

A Song For Each

What a life!!

Wonderful we had it all

Be all blessed

Whose acceptance do you seek?

The acceptance is in birth and death

My acceptance is your eyes

Those eyes of some value or no

Let’s author our final acceptance

Trial from time immemorial

Who will sallow the poison?

A Beautiful face with dirty mind

Or a dirty face with a beautiful mind?

Are we on for the final acceptance

God give us the supreme power

To wish for All

A poem for each

A song for all!!

Dreams in Our Sweet Home

Is this a Dream? Or a Nightmare?
The shadows of them all over my life!!

An imagination of reality
A reality of Imagination

The shadows of perception
Perception of shadows
What do I perceive?

The necessity of life

Beyond the control of most?

I as I see it is illusion of Wisdom

Illusion that lasts but not for ever

But never the memory of perceptions!!

Waves from the depth of Green Ocean

Waves breaking on shore of my life

Waves of my times of yore

Over the waves of the moment
Smokes of Cigarettes

Smokes of Reality

From the inferno of past

Life like drops
Drops of rain
Or drops of dew
Drops of tear
Drops of poison
Uff on life it all rains

Life like new born baby
In Our Sweet Home

Our home of Ambrosia
Out of Waves Out of Pain
Out of Smoke Out of rain
The shadows dancing on light
My love conquered it all
And there is Our Sweet Home

Our Sweet Home
Sweeter then ever
Atalanta for you my mirage
For the reverie of Atalanta
In Our Sweet Home

Shadow Over Our Sweet Home

Never seen a face without a shade
Shade of some fiction, biographies may be?
So many faces diluting
Voices fading away
Not a single identity
Some nebulous impressions
Some queasy traces in my brain
Can I recollect?
Don’t remember where
Don’t remember when
Don’t remember why
So many alleys
Cannot recollect the tune
Cannot recollect the time
I sense I had a crush
But how did she look?
What was her name?
How senseless was that?
Shadows of senses !!

Those like shadows
Through the corridors of memory
Truth as if shadow of lie
Shade of virtue over the vice
Choice is never dark or light
Choice of shades
Some dreamy shadow
Shadows’ dreams
So many hiding inside shades
So much engrossed within shadows
The shadow that ever whispered
The very shadow seems to snoop.
Who are you?Another shadow….!!!

Was that all shadow?
The pain the struggle
The heavy breath the deep sigh
Was that all shadow?

Breaking free out of shadow
Volcano from the grave of shadows
Erupting from nothing
Falling into ashes

Breaking away from shadows
Digging into shadows,,,,Myself a shade!!

Our Sweet Home - A Gedankexperiment

Some how or other I have deep premonition that by the end of 21st century our civilizations will be absolutely a single civilization. Since the time of Romans it is evident that world is coming closer in different ways sometimes through war sometimes through business sometimes through cultural exchange and obviously sometime by accident. Every century the process is getting faster and faster. When I say single civilization I mean common laws, some mixed ideologies and a single future!!!

People who understand this very simple phenomenon will make it to the next century in a better way.Achieving something is great but the how part is also very important. The how part will ensure the success.To address the how part I’ll go by Albert Einstein who believed in Justice, Liberty, and Tolerance.

Let’s take one at a time.

Benjamin Franklin almost defined liberty when he said “Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both.”
True liberty has a cost. And we as individual and as human race need to pay for it.
This author though personally don’t like George Bernard Shaw’s penning style which is perceived as harsh, still in this context I would prefer to quote him “Liberty doesn’t come free Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.”
Yes it is this feature of liberty that is vital, it makes people take responsibility.

Tolerance is the best exercise for mind for its expansion. Because it’s trough our tolerance that we stretch our mind and as we do so subtle and sublime thoughts catches up. Robert Green Ingersoll once said “Tolerance is giving to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself.” Without tolerance neither justice nor liberty is possible.

Justice should always be based on tolerance and sense of liberty. It certainly takes profound courage to accept the truth and stand for justice and this is rightly expressed in the words of Benjamin Franklin “Without justice, courage is weak.”

These 3 building blocks will be central to the future of our civilization very soon.

Very soon every nation (currently economic zone) one way or other will face resource crunch. Resource could be oil, technology, man power or other natural resources. To overcome these resource crunches economic zones have to form alliances to
Share problem
Share risk
Share profit
And ultimately increase business and overall productivity.

So 21st century will certainly mark the power play among these alliances.
Just like any other century which marked by some or other kind of power struggle. Similarly this century will mark by power struggle among different economic alliances.

The major leaders of these would be alliances would be the US, Japan and European economy and are expected to get into severe power struggle in form of business in a decade or so if it has not already started. This economical power struggle will also demand alliances with other economical zones; more exhaustive use of global resources will be the call of the day.
If we look closely we will be able to see such alliances are forming across the globe.

People who would lack the above mentioned values (liberty, tolerance, and justice) would certainly not contribute towards such alliances and needless to say won’t be part of the future.
Whoever has any vision if that not aliened to the same, needs to be aliened.
We already have one World Bank (The World Bank); this would have seemed to be impossible only some hundred years back, though it has faced huge criticism so far but it’s indicative of alliance.
India, the world's twelfth largest economy at market exchange rates and the third largest economy in purchasing power, the second fastest growing large economy, has a role to play. I would like to end this article with the saying of John F. Kennedy “The wave of the future is not the conquest of the world by a single dogmatic creed but the liberation of the diverse energies of free nations and free men.”

In Our Sweet Home

So many times I felt
Felt on my skin
Felt life is moving by
I am just an onlooker
Nothing seems to last

Like a kid
Tried hard to clutch to life
And it turned out to be sand
Or was it some melting Ice?
Melting for I was holding tight!!!

Like a kid,
I thought let it go
And all went by,
Past buried in past
Bygones are bygones
Life appeared to be further on
Further on and further on
Is it a never ending mirage?

Thought life is truth
Hold onto truth it appears to be lie
Realized life is in its beauty
Hold onto beauty it appeared to be ugly
Felt life is happiness
Hold onto happiness it turns out to be grief
Calculated life is to become rich
Hold onto money I appear so poor
Planned life is to be powerful
Hold onto power I felt insecure
Thought knowledge is life
Hold onto words it lost its meaning

Confused like a kid,
I let it all go
And it all went by…

There goes life….
Chase it or Cling to it
Or let it go….?
Build it or Snatch it
Or drift with it….?
Love it or enjoy it
Or just resonate with it….?

Virtual Suicide In Our Sweet Home

At times I feel I have committed a series of virtual suicides, I call it virtual because physically I am leaving but very clinically everyday I am committing suicide slowly and steadily I am chopping myself off from the rest.

In past that was always my mode of living. Some may call it introvert; some may say lack of assertiveness, thereby making a claim that it’s my nature.

But I know I have very consciously did it with me. You can say almost going against my nature, almost revolting against my wishes I have chosen this mode of living.

Deep down when I ask myself why, why am I doing this to me?

Is it a kind of depression? Absolutely not. I am in a very good mood. Perhaps I love humanity too much, yes I do!!
At times I think I am a very difficult character!! One part of it is impulsive and another one is driven by love for all, whatever you do, whoever you are, I love you for you being a human being.

There is a strong message that I keep on passing onto me, Amlan don’t hate anybody, but at times I roughen up people a lot. Ok, these days that impulsive part is dying slowly.

Why did I screw up things with people so often? Was it so bad too get irritated easily; was it too bad to get bothered by people around me?
And needless to say when I get bothered, I bothered you, when I got irritated I irritate you!!!

Now when I think why I used to get so troubled by people, and why not now?
Have I evolved into superior human being? F***, I actually don’t care anymore!!!

Now the last line might sound cool to some fools. It’s bad not to care about any person, it’s narrow. You may know him, you may not know him, but the human blood that’s in the person body demands some respect.

But then can I really start caring about everybody? At one point or other I have to say “F*** Off” or “Damn it”.

Ahh every breath is a choice, and here is a choice, let me be not cruel with anybody.

It is at that point I very willing choose to remain quite. No be it what at that point I still prefer to commit virtual suicide.

Yes one is loosing a war, one is winning it, and absolutely different is rising above a war. It’s not being escapist either, contrary I choose to quit.

Now here was the catch for me!!! Why not win and then give up? This could be also a choice!!!

I choose, yup!!

Beauty In Our Sweet Home

Beauty by mistake?
We call it “beautiful mistake”

Beautiful dreams of those dreamy days of teens
And you wonder why those memoirs are
They are beautiful so they are

It’s only the beautiful bird that gets caged
And you feel trapped inside
No more escape feeling lonely
The key is lost …..
Then sing to me the beautiful song
Then smile your beautiful smile
And give us a reason to be happy

Beautiful Sounds
Sounds of beats
Your heart is beating

Beautiful Sound
Sound of a subtle knock
Love knocking!!!

In love sometimes beauty is missing
In beauty love is never missed
Don’t search for love you fool
Celebrate the beauty and you are in love with life
Your love is just a passing fashion
The beauty an eternal truth

Hold yourself now and the beauty is gone
Hold yourself now and the spring is gone

Glimpses of Beauty now and then
So much beauty life is short
A beautiful mind and some beautiful thought

Existence of beauty, existence in beauty
That’s life that’s the existence
Realization of beauty and all realized

Me In Our Sweet Home

We plan We aim
At times our aim mocks at us
At times it surrenders
Life is a continuous flow
I am a wanderer
Wandering in search …..
Searching for what?
So many identities has been pushed down my throat
So helpless are my dreams
My dreams have no identity of their own
Search me in the streets of Pune
You won’t find me
Search me in the streets of Mumbai
You won’t find me
Search me in the streets of Kolkata
You won’t find me
Search me in the streets of Delhi
You won’t find me
Neither do I….
I am what?
Search me you won’t find me anywhere
Neither do I?
Lost a lot in my search
Yet to loose myself
My soul calls me
The horizon beckons
Not yet Not yet
Some other place …
Some other time….