ADIEU

It is all over,

I need to go.

I know you can take care of yourself

Or should I say there are people who can take care of you.

I was just an addiction for you,

To give you company in times of loneliness,

To be a shoulder you could cry on,

To be a person you could talk to when you are alone.

Now, I know you don’t need me.

I know you will be hurt if I go away,

But nothing in this world is permanent.

You have to get over with this addiction.

You will always have people around you to take care of you,

And soon I will fade out from your life and your memory.

I know I have to walk my path alone,

Which I will definitely do,

Sometimes, I guess most of the time,

I enjoy this solitude.

I know you are not aware of my loneliness,

But I have no complaints against you.

It was my mistake to think everything in this world is permanent.

The happiness I was living in was just a moment and now it has passed,

Now the change has come in,

I once feared change

Until I saw the most beautiful butterfly

Has undergone metamorphosis.

May be this change is also for our betterment.

“In God’s good time we shall meet again my dear friend”

PIYALI GUHA

BE THE CHANGE?????

 “Why can’t you?”

I can’t and I don’t want to actually.

“You are hopeless”

Yes I am and I can’t help it.

Why should I always do what others do?

I am not like liquid who can take up the shape of your desire.

I am solid, and I have already shaped up my desire.

I don’t need to follow your instructions

“You will never succeed”

Hmmm….so what if I don’t?

Everyone is not born to become Bill gates or Einstein,

By the way even they were hopeless once,

So you never know.

“Come on, time is running out.”

I hate to run.

I am not an ass who is born to bore others luggage on his back,

In my case it’s the desire that’s heaped on my shoulder

And you want me to live with it.

I can’t walk with this bunch on my shoulder,

remove this and you will see me speeding up.

“You should have learned this long time back, you are still struggling”

I have my own pace and I will learn it with that pace only.

No need to worry.

You want me to learn everything in a day,

I am no Vivekananda.

“You are an idiot, a fool.”

Sorry, I don’t belong to the intellectual class.

I take time to learn, I take time to understand

even the simplest thing on earth.

I can’t think in the straight way people does.

The wiring in my mind is very complicated and twisted,

It takes time to catch signals.

I forget things before I could even remember it.

Sorry that I have failed to live up to your expectations,

I can’t be the change you want to see in me.

PIYALI GUHA

I FORGIVE YOU

I was sleeping for long,

Now I am awaken,

So has my conscience and soul.

The sun is smiling at me and my crimson blood,

It has heated enough the blood which says,

Fight and protest against all supporters of evil.

With a new discovery of me,

I say good morning to thee.

I am forgiving you for what you did,

Because somebody has said

“Forgive your enemies,

Nothing annoys them more”.

PIYALI GUHA 

MY DESIRE

I thought of you whenever I was alone,

I wonder how I cope up with my loneliness,

I know you can hear me,

Then tell me why did you leave me?

What I did, what was my fault,

Why am I suffering your loss,

Which I don't deserve?

The day still haunts me to not to find you around.

I thought you would be back in an hour,

After an hour I thought you would be back by night,

Or by next day or within a couple of days.

I waited at the door,

Days turned into years.

I grew up to find myself in solitude.

I still have a vague picture of yours,

That pretty face, that wet long black hair,

Your smile at all the silly timid things I did,

Your white conch bangles touching my forehead,

Your way of saying baba,

 that you loved me more than him.

These thoughts are not enough to make me happy,

I miss your physical existence the most.

I walk, I talk, I do things as if

Nothing is wrong with me,

I am happy and content.

I keep myself busy whenever I am left with nothing to do,

I take up my friend's work to keep myself occupied,

You know why?

I know the moment I am alone,

My desire of not being able to see you

And feel you anymore will haunt me.

At times I feel like screaming and crying out,

To outburst the pain I hold in my heart.

I always lean over the same window,

Where you used to sit me on your lap,

The window is still there, so am I,

But I am missing your warmth, your love.

Mother, I miss you,

I love you,

I still remember you.

I don't know whether I will ever get to meet you or not.

I wish my feelings, my thoughts were strong enough

To bring you back to me.

Mother come back home,

I miss you a lot.

PIYALI GUHA

DEATH I HAVE NO FEAR

If I die, don't cry.

My death is near,but I have no fear,

Fear fears my strength,

It tried hard to give me pain,

But I said “death is inevitable and everyone has to taste it someday

So why shed tears, death I have no fear.”

Each time death stabs me, I say

“Thy shall have my body, not my soul,

My eyes but not my vision,

My tongue but not my speech.”

I love my life more than the thought of my death,

So you can never conquer my life,

Death I have no fear.

PIYALI GUHA

DON’T MISS OPPORTUNITIES

Have you ever thought why you have never been successful in doing what you have always wanted to do? Is it that you never got an opportunity or is it the other way round? We end up doing nothing at times in our life, later regretting the whole life.

Its not that we never get opportunity. Opportunity knocks at least once in life. But we never think of utilizing the opportunity. Opportunity is always around us, we just need to grab it. But we are always ready with an excuse that God is great so he is surely going to give us another opportunity so why to worry now. We always believe in doing things the next time. Why wait for the next time and regret missing this time. Missing an opportunity is like tasting the bitter poison of frustration. The frustration of not being able to prove yourself, the frustration of sitting idle and doing nothing, the frustration of paralyzed brain, the frustration of  getting dumb day by day, the frustration of seeing others moving ahead of us. Well the list of frustration is endless. So why miss an opportunity and getting frustrated for nothing.

Don't  always wait for bigger opportunities to come your way. Every small opportunity cohesively joins to form a bigger opportunity. As it is said little drops of water, little drops of sand, makes a mighty ocean and a mighty land. We miss opportunity because we don't  look at it as opportunity; we see it as an everyday task. As Thomas Edison said “Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overall and looks like work”.

Never give yourself a chance of regretting. Grab all the opportunities you can. Believe in creating your own opportunity. As Lakshmi Mittal said” It's  not always that you get to hit the iron when it's  hot; believe in hitting it so hard that it gets heated up!” Don't  be afraid of your failure. Only those who dare to fail greatly can achieve greatly.

Life is not as big as we think it to be. Utilize every tits and bits of opportunity you get in your way. You never know which opportunity might change your fate. World is a competitive market. Everyone is either running for money or challenges. There is no place for losers in this world. People only see those who have made something big in their life and not those who are still waiting for an opportunity to come. Abraham Lincoln once said “Always bear in mind, that your own resolution of success is more important than any other thing”. All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them.

PIYALI GUHA