Living in Black and White

If you can choose to be what you should be..
if you can turn around and say what's only perfect and right..
If you could do what everyone else accepts
if everything you touch , smell, taste and feel is all that you like and nothing else..
How easy living would be if life itself is only Black and white..

The story of my life

At crossroads then, one too many a time
With lurching heart to tread yonder
pulling at opposites, I stopped to ponder
One too many times again,
A tug, a nudge maybe even
a reluctant push
To achieve a wayward dream
In a distant horizon

At crossroads still, with wider paths
Too many escapes, too many space
A string of pebbles escape in myriad directions
I follow the hollow ones,
I turn back, sigh, heave, pant
Wrong again.
The good ones are all gone
I will wait
The dream waits
A never ending wait

For another crossroad to come by.

Happiness

Happiness

Happiness is in a carefree smile

In rosy health

In a heart off all heavy sighs

In the crystal specks of light in a baby’s eye

In a trusting friend

In truth; a present here, with not one lie

Happiness is in a quiet mind

Meditative and kind

In a stretched hand with a note

To those who ask for it

Happiness is in giving

Happiness is in freshness

Of divine smells ,

 And when no grudge, no strife

In simplicity and a thoughtful word

A brisk walk on a hushed street

At the break of dawn;

Or watching your child sleep

At night, all care abandoned.

Happiness is in colors blue and green

In the sky

and the fruitful earth

In the fluttering of a butterfly wing

In an eagle’s swoop

In a lark’s cry to the silver moon

In the beauty of a garden pruned

Happiness is riding a swing

When your heart lurch

And grow cold still

Up and down,

 Sweeping you off your feet

The feel of dew touching you

As you lie down

To gape at the starry skies

Happiness is in a book:  lost you are in

Weeping for its protagonist

When then you lift you head and laugh

For your mind’s innocence

Hath not it been for those pages

You won’t see life’s sorrows

 

That’s happiness