Faces

From every wall Faces stare From every mirror Viciously gaze Taunt and tease Gloat and jeer Sometimes shed Crocodile tears Open your eyes Or turn your head A vilest face will Always be there You can only Inwardly rage Or close your eyes In deep despair ©️ShashikantDudhgaonkar

Never Alone

No one is truly Alone in life Lonely ones are also Followed by strife Following are always Hurts and pains Memories of people Their words profane Unhealed wound And ugly scars And failures fiddle With bleeding hearts Loved ones depart With hate in heart And arrive in solitude To tear you apart And even if … Read more

Loosing Your Way

When you are lostAs you walk down the path And try to rememberWhere you were walking toAnd why are you evenWalking alongYou want to pauseFor a moments fewAnd try to find Your bearings anewBut you go on walkingWithout a pauseAfraid of the looksYou’ll get if you stopAnd you keep on walkingTo lose your wayNever to … Read more

Cult of devotees

The dying embersFlicker and flutterIn final gaspsOf freedom and truth.The wind is silentAfraid to move.In the bushes hide,Watchful eyes.Afraid to fly,In the open skies.Birds are hidingIn shrinking cages.Distrust in the airSuspicious minds Mobs on a rampageBlind in hate. The silence of the fewWatching in fearRegretting the deathOf their soothing voiceLeaders are stoogesAnd artists are mimes.Cult … Read more

Good Night

Eat a littleRead a littleThen lie downAnd try to doze offLoosen your faceSmile a littleThen little moreWider than wideWipe off the frownFrom your browLet them droopOver the eyesBreathe a littleDeeper breathsFeel the airMoving outClose your eyesWelcome the darkAnd gently slideIn a peaceful trance©️ShashikantDudhgaonkar

Calm

Troubled days andtroubled mindLife can be a messMany a timesI wish for calmIn a chaotic worldMoments of peaceIs all I crave.But anger and rageTakes over meAnd I lose all senseOf everythingI Close my eyesLook for a streamI played as childIn far off woodsAnd as I getLost in those woodsI find the peaceI was searching for©️ShashikantDudhgaonkar