Death

I saw death today.
I saw how He lives,
Like the ocean embracing a ball of fire,
Like a heart taking what it gives,
Momentary, like the candles at your first birthday,
Solitary, like the time they parted away.
Like zillions of elevators with nowhere to go,
It was beautiful like a photograph in flames,
Disfigured lives in black and white,
Chess seemed to be one of his favorite games,
I saw Death today,
He told me how He lived.

(To be cont.)

Speak of...

Before this man is forgotten and his lies have become immortal,
Before he wakes up from a dream where he had lived,
Speak of his anger, of times when the soul clenched onto the fingernails and scars were deeper than birthmarks
while victories would fight defeats struggling to find their reasons to be,
Speak of his love, speak of balloons pumped with promises tied to a few autumn leaves,
And if you would hold his hand long enough, you might just be able to touch his heart dangling on the sleeves,
Speak of his tears, carving a path leading to conclusions and looking for shoulders to leave impressions on,
of  craters of pain that time failed to fill, of a time when the sand clock had come to a standstill.
Speak of the rights and the wrongs, speak of being guilty and free,
Tell them he was guilty when he fought his wars,
Tell them he loved not right but his wasn't supposed to be.... 


-Shubit
(Inspired by Carvens Lissaint - Tell them)

Pens

Pens shouldn't be named, they ought to be called by the first word you write with them.
It makes it more personal because until then you dont really "own the pen". Also, it makes you lose it a lot lesser too in context to the reason above.
But then the only flaw I could see in this thought would be 'how would you recognize your own then?'
I feel pens are like tooth-brushes, you certainly come to know when you're not using yours, by which I mean the one you have "bought" and been using for quite sometime now.
Stealing pens is almost like something you would do after seeing a lot of people around you looking up...you would look up too. It's something you would want to try, something like wanting to try what mannequins are wearing probably just to be exactly like them them.

Never Say Goodbye

One of my first self compositions with a phone mic as the recording device and four water clogged walls as the studio.

Of Mannequins and Love

It was raining cats and dogs...and love that day.
We proudly wore what mannequins were wearing through crowded days and deserted nights.
Under armpits and over smelly hair I got down from a train on a monotonous track to follow another
And like stars in nursery rhymes, everything beautiful would be juvenile
You were late at the overhead bridge but you still defined everything punctual to
the racing heart.
Hearts would be murdered and the elevator to my room would be the only eye-witness as it would blink zillions of times....letting us in...letting us out...
It took time but the toothbrush now shared its room with another one of its own as other little things too had company following our footsteps.
The seat belt at the co-driver seat now could finally make a move as its buckle clicked up with its love and defined our nights.
We mixed and hid memories inside an hourglass fearing and waiting for kingdom to come.
We departed when we realized that to change the sand...we had to break the clock.
Into glasses and between the mirrors of evil and the good
we stood apart waiting for someone to wear
what we are wearing in crowded days and deserted nights...

Door se Dekh - Another Self Comp.

One of the cheesiest surely! :)

The clouds said thunder, the night said rain,
She asked for a rainbow across the lightning,
The nature said gravitation, the self said fall,
And when the dawn proved us as guilty,
An evil you, an evil me....
The days were wonder, the nights were pains,
The lies were volcanoes and the dance was for the rains,
I asked for confessions while they seeked for none,
And the memories bled,sometimes more..sometimes some,
We lived an Arabian night, th magic was ours,
We lit a lamp just to make sure the time was still in hours,
We gathered around mirrors to see,
An evil you, an evil me...

I walked around a town, where you wouldn't know if you were real,
I saw an old man confirming the same,
He would challenge your past and prove you guilty,
An old man confirming the same,
You would see the biggest malls.

And a dragon in the amusement parks,
You would hear screams but not a fire,
You would be an aquarium in their sharks,
The bird flew over that town,spying on disbelief,
He put her in a cage of lies,
He believed in flying peacocks and their mischief,
The same confirmed by the wise,
I walked around a town, where you wouldn't know if you were real,
I saw an old man confirming the same,
He would challenge your past and prove you guilty,
An old man confirming the same...

Sadness

Sad is not the smile but the daggers behind it,
Not the death of a you but the soul of the same,
Sad are not the stories but the actors behind it,
Not the songs so true but the words said in vain,
The reason and not the lie, a you..but what's in a name,
A whisper and not a sigh, the dice and not the game...

She and Oscar Wilde

You are not punished for your sins,you are punished by them, she quoted as her departing footsteps gently faded away into another night of starry lies and into another lunar love.
And I was the dice while you were the chance,
Because if adam had charm, eve would have danced,
You and me are one too many for a duet,
you would knit memories into emotions and then snip it,
Then you would smile a tear and I thought I was the poet,
And now curtains is to long brown hair what the keyhole is to those eyes,
Present in those calender pages,your presence is no surprise,
Farewell to the favorites while silence laughs at the door,
Your memories live and stink where my words don't no more...