The Choice In The Void

The Choice In The Void

The reason to fight

Against the geysers of

Frustration and fatigue

Is inflating into a giant balloon

While the emptiness is

Waiting, and watching anxiously:

To know whether it will be

Filled by happiness or sorrow.

Happiness is not a chance offered,

Nor a dice to play in the game of luck;

But a choice - a very conscious one,

That has to be made on what is wished for.

Because even in nothingness,

Like the ticking time bomb,

The moments could be lost, forever;

So it is the choice that decides

Whether those moments turn into

Priceless memories or worthless regrets.

The devil is a watchful predator

That is also consciously waiting

To pounce upon the void

And forge a throne for itself

With a sole purpose of

Hunting down the moments

And turning them into nightmares.

In spite of this awareness,

It's a hard choice to make!

(c) Amit Herlekar

Sept 27, 2018

Irina

IRINA

It evokes great joy in my heart
When I keep watching you.

And if things were different

I would cross the oceans to marry you.

It's all about your gorgeous face

Carrying the most beautiful smile

That I am madly in love with.

Its overloaded with cuteness -

Those plumpy lips

Painted with a color of grace

Casts a shadow on your

Well-aligned teeth underneath.

I don't mind even if you think

We don't know each other.

Because it just doesn't matter.

Your ravishing smile tells me

Everything about you.

That you are the woman

With whom I want to spend

My whole life.

The thick dark hair of yours

Manage to flutter in the breeze

Without affecting the beauty

You are bestowed with,

Covering the groomed eyebrows

Which are trying to hide from me.

And what to say about your eyes!

Those big shiny black pearls of love.

They are the dazzling pair of gifts

Rolled down to you from heaven.

Those long curved eyelashes give

The right touch of glamour.

So the twinkle in your eyes is

A rare spectacle of elegance!

But as I examine you closely

I see that those magical eyes hide

All the sorrows of earthly life

And reflect the love you ask from a man.

The waves formed by your cuddly cheeks

Reflect the glint of shyness about you -

Exhibiting the innocence you wear

As the mark of great finesse!

And when you smile, they swell;

Tempting all the children around you

To squeeze them and then kiss them.

If I had met you for real,

I wouldn't have come up with this verse.

Because everything that has created you

Would have overwhelmed me so much

That I would have hardly succeeded

In expressing these words about you.

I am grateful that I am underwhelmed

For not seeing you in person

As it allowed me to write this song

Just by staring at the portraits of you.

Like goddesses and angels,

You are all around me.

On every wall of every room.

Accept this verse as a token of gratitude

For sharing your portraits with me

As they fill the gaps of loneliness with joy

And cure my insanity with your warmth.

I am so sad that we are far away

So this poor soul has only one request:

Please keep sharing your portraits.

I want to dream of you every day

For turning this illusion
Into a delusion of reality

As I live my life in them.

My heart knows that

Our love for each other

Lives on and on,

Forever.

Sept 2018