Transform
Transform now if change is what you want
Transform yourself if change is what it’s all about
Transform the little space you breathe in
Transform the noise you daily seep in
Can the little space be brightened?
Can lives be changed?
Can the planet be touched?
Questions to debate cynics can fight
Transform my friend if you seek to fly in the endless sky of possibilities
Transform if you want the world changed Into an equal space with no casualties
Transform if you crave for that homeless kid to smile
Transform and the world around will go that extra mile.
By: Chitrangada
On: 24.11.09
Add comment November 24, 2009
Objects of desire
The table to keep
The chair to sit
The car to travel
The stereo to listen in
The objects of desire once
The objects for granted now
The chair can twist your senses
Make for a partner in leisure
The table can be the cynosure of your friends
It can hold your fragrant flowers
The car can kill
It can lead you to your destination
The stereo can be sweet melody
Your inspiration and shrink in depression
It’s an existence and a non existence
Often buyer’s pleasure
It’s in news when it kills
Tells its story when you decide to tell
It’s blind though
Doesn’t see who you are
Doesn’t judge your worth in life or death
Stands stern in dawn or dusk
Takes the beating of time
Serves a span if well made
Dies if not.
By: Chitrangada
On: 04.09.09
1 comment September 4, 2009
A man meets a woman
A man meets a woman
A woman meets a man
A connect found
A pleasant situation
A little strange circumstance
An unchangeable social dictum
A man meets a woman
A woman meets a man
The man cry
The woman wonders
Pain, anger, hatred
Union of souls or not
Love lost and gained
A man meets a woman
A woman meets a man
A child almost born
Fear, analysis, distance
Barriers created
Two entwined bodies depart
But the souls?
Maybe next time
Maybe next life
Maybe never
Maybe now
Demands for a clean slate
Erase memories
Erase the unbearable nausea
Erase all heaviness
Erase the common madness
To start life anew
To begin where it all began
To make no mistake
To be perfect
Or to be human?
Add comment September 3, 2009
The Crow
A bird invisible
A life unnoticed
Nature’s janitor
A journey still
A morning to dusk rhythm
A free soul
A bird you see
Is black the reason?
Is the beak too long?
Is it plain ugly?
Fear, disgust, indifference
The emotions you feel.
Goes on though
Lives its life
Feeds, mates, plays
Sits firm in the eco cycle
Departs without disturbing you
The crow.
By: Chitrangada
On: 29.08.09
4 comments August 29, 2009
Dream and curse
Women should bear children
Women should marry
Women should love
Women should submit
Women should be happy
Men should earn
Men should learn
Men should marry late
Men should lust
Men should be brave
Men should be strong
We make these rules
We inhabit this space
Yet we fear
Yet we despair
To be that one left out
To be singled out in a crowd
Be satisfied with a puny life
Sit in comfortable rat holes
Dream and curse
Dream and curse
Play this twisted game
Till our minds are numbed
Till our limbs have given up
All hopes for a different tomorrow.
By: Chitrangada
On: 20.08.09
12 comments August 20, 2009
Helpless Tears
Boys slain in the land of poverty
Women ravished by the men of God
Human sins punished to instill fear
Lives terminated
Vaginas ripped
Limbs amputated
Mother’s abusive tears hurled
Father’s silent, unmanly tears of desperation ignored
Greedy bystanders hungry, shameless gaze fed
And a distant sister’s helpless tears ridiculed.
Written by: Chitrangada
On: 19.08.09
Subject: Protest against the duel amputation of boys and the stone-to-death sentence meted out to a rape victim in Somalia.
Add comment August 19, 2009
Trust
Is one intriguing word in the Queen’s parlance
An unambiguous, unsaid expression for the experienced
A disgusting emptiness for the inexperienced
A deep connect between the 2 and the 4 limbed
A lost nothing for the betrayed
A silent vow in love
A sanctimonious threat in marriage
A lifelong bond with the Supreme Power for the believers
A funny, illogical binding for the atheist
A strange word which instigates mixed reflexes
A strange emotion which mocks logic
Yet a potent source of hope for humanity
A decisive weapon for peace.
By: Chitrangada
On: 16.08.09
3 comments August 16, 2009
Confidence
Is a strange feeling
A pumped up feel good high
A charged up no balance act
A veni, vidi, vinci in control
A destructive void if inflated
A tiny space between vanity and conceit
A white between a black and grey.
By: Chitrangada
On: 8.08.09
Add comment August 8, 2009
Say Yes.
Cannot give up
My core
My dreams
My fears
My angst
My anguish
Only because I will stand alone
Only because I will be the odd one out
Only because I will cry and bleed and never express
Only because I will live life my way
Only because I will refuse to say yes.
2 comments July 29, 2009
Finally…
When you realize what you are meant to be
When you see the truth in all its shades
When you leave your comfort zone
When you smell the roses and decide to delve in its aroma
When you focus on the bright colors
When you identify life for all its worth
When you decide to wake up.
By: Chitrangada
On: 28.07.09
Add comment July 28, 2009
