Dreamily asleep

Now far and wide

Is waiting to be closed,

But the opening, the gap

Is too narrow to be seen

With naked eyes,

Too hazy to be known

With emotions crinkled on your brows,

Too strongly built

To be uncovered

With moments of self doubt,

It's just a thin path

Which you can cover

With hands outstretched

To the refuge of the night sky,

Where the perimeter of beliefs

Is like the wind that creates a passage

For breathing visions anew

In a world marred by spaces

For just a few.

Maybe we can gulp a star

And feel the glow of evolution,

Millions of heads

Trying to squeeze into a handful of ideals

Fact checking, correlating, and concluding

Whose pulse follows the rhythm set

While the night turns you into a haphazard mess

Who swirls the worries of life

Into colourless drinks

And gulps them away with a smile.

They still sit deeply somewhere within

Even though you've taken

Thousand steps away from them

Preventing you from getting their whiff

For the next day and maybe the day afterward

Until you realize

That you haven't escaped the battle yet

It still pounds the walls of your house,

No matter how far you go

And build it with hands that tremble

Trying to straighten

Under September's crimson wings,

Eager to find a melody

That'll fill your vision

With dreams that strengthen

Your conviction in your abilities,

That'll summon your faith

To open up like an Aster

And maintain its vibrancy,

A hold so strong

That will dissuade it from

Folding and falling

Of the reverberations that engulf her daily,

On a tiny mountain top where darkness sits

There is nothing that seems amiss.

Only an absence flows far and wide

So similar to her uphill climb.

Where there's no sentinel to say 'That's all'

Look deeply into her pale moonlit eyes,

And usher her toward a path

Dishevelled and unorganised

Yet you never let this disorientation

Wreck the premise

Of your sweetest smile,

Despite the treacherous path

On which your bruised legs walk

Your movement is always forward

Never pounding, never rushing for a respite,

There isn't an adjustment as brave

As what reflects in your stride,

Even with a heart swollen with longing

You appear to me

Not like a victim shot

Simply a figure

Of your love

It keeps deepening

Thickening with richness

Turning into gold

That stays intact

Until the end of time,

There's nothing to be chosen

Nothing to be left out,

Every bite of it

Feels like elixir

That melts everything inside

With a delight

Whose reverberations

That about you

The seams of my imagination

Know no bounds,

Nothing that is untrue is true

The truth that I desire

Keeps stretching

Wide like a horizon's view,

Nothing dims

Even in the darkest hour,

You are a part of me

In my mind,

An ever expanding soul

Capturing my heart

The symphony of leaves

Fading out from existence

Blissfully,

Subtly sparkling colors

Showing that not everything

Needs to shine

To look like a beauty,

A glow in your eyes

Of life about to be repeated

So many times you may try

But just end up stuck in the soil

From where you thought you would rise,

It's a walk through changing seasons

That come and go without your knowledge,

A journey that can become your friend

Try once to just smile

And feel its embrace

Nudging you closer towards

She devours

In a minute forgetting that

There are equally pleasing

Assortment of treats around,

The hunger in her eyes

Is all for you

No matter how beautiful

Others around the table look ,

She carries your chant within

Only you impart the color to her seasons

That stretches over a distance

Reminding of a presence

So near yet distant,

Time keeps falling over

Folding and folding days

Transforming places, as events stack

On top of another

And what the eye could see fades,

Yet that slender line doesn't becomes thinner

Its meaning keeps glimmering

Like a motif in a treasured heirloom

Masked by a cheerful veneer

So they never hit me

But fall on my lap

Like the tenderest flowers.

I sense your turmoil

Chipping away your dreams inside

Yet the way you connect never shows

You're letting so many parts of you go.

I glimpse your splintered smile

As you venture into a world

That leaves you lost and undefined,

Yet you exude a familiarity

To make me feel buoyed

Confront my turbulence

With a sword of gentleness

Getting right past the strife

And settling into a stillness

I couldn't discover,

Every attempt to escape diminishes

Until I'm brought into the present moment,

And your soft strokes alter the reality

Making me close my eyes and think

In places where you never existed,

Where you were always cornered

Left to nurse your bruises alone,

Where the only one who recognised you

Was you,

Where your eyes didn't perceived the truth,

Only when no one comes

To pick up the pieces of your tired soul

Does the realisation sets in

You were and are trying

To battle for a cause

That wouldn't make a difference

Until all that remains

Are bare bones,

Exhausted and functional

At a rudimentary level.

Yet poised as much as it's possible

Affection coiled in way that cannot be untangled,

Nothing but restraint