wave sojourn

 Have you seen a wave in the wilderness?

Crashing on the shores with its bubbly smile.

Gentle breezing, chasing, amazing.

Bringing  a lot of  disgusting seaweeds out

but sometimes precious pearls it touts.

Dancing, prancing, acting this wave

One day brought a tsunami in my town.

Screaming, shouting, scaring, and doubting.

This wave tumbled the world around.

Left was nothing some dead people and some broken houses.

There was no shore, there was no wave.

I keenly looked around, and I'm glad I found

Dancing, prancing, acting this wave

in a blue lake, so quiet, no whispers were made.

No more shores, no more crashing

Living in the deepest point in the lake.

The time is gone and the memories are made.

The wave has moved from ocean to lake.

                                                            - Aarushi

chattering clouds

 There goes a rabbit.

There goes a dragon

with a tail in the end

and chasing my rabbit until they all go poooooof.

There goes the witch. 

There goes her broom.

she is flying on her own

and looking for her broom until they all go pooooooof.

There go the horses.

There goes the rider

with reins in his hands

and riding them fast until they all go poooooof.

On this sunny day, 

I am lying on my back, in the arms of a rooftop

holding me like a baby, like a feather so light.

With no agenda and no reason, I am looking at the sky.

Those passing by clouds are chatterbox and trying to talk to me.

Little Girl

 A small girl in a big town

had big dreams in her small mind.

Her hopes were vast like the ocean

she has never seen but imagined for real.

Her plans were so shiny and clear

like the jewels, she has never wore

And one day she ran into something 

she ran away from, her entire life.

And one day she landed on earth 

after living on planets incredible and unknown.

And one day the unseen ocean was deserted

the jewels got robbed, belonged to no one.

She screamed she cursed, she abused, and the worse

She believed no more the planet she belonged to,

 the ocean she never saw, and the jewels she never wore.

The whirlpool of events brought her inside out.

The unfamiliar truths she gets to know of herself.

Daringly facing her truths has instigated that spark.

She is now whole new, doesn't matter what was her past.

No dreams, no hopes are enough to fill her eyes

She found her own ocean and true jewels in disguise

What a relief, what a moment

When she met with herself after don't know, how many births and how many lives.

                    

                                                                                        Aarushi

Wild Wind

 When fall is the only season

in the town I live. 

Leaves of all kinds drew a rainbow on the ground.

I see that man raking so patiently and passionately

amidst no soul, however, can be found.

I wonder what's driving him or is he driving crazy?

To check I passed close by and heard him humming some tune. 

A tune of infinite joy - no hope, no pain, no pleasure, no gain.

Envious, curious, furious me, wanted to crush him under my feet.

How can you be so eternally happy in insanely lonely weather like this?

With a blink of an eye, his hat said goodbye, and the beautiful reclined rainbow sat upright.

He tightly held his faith and rake 

And the shaking ground he stood on.

No one around and I passed by him again to check on what was left.

To my surprise, I heard him so clear

humming the tune of infinite joy- no hope, no despair, no pleasure, no fear.

This time the tune was contagiously joyful.

It made me do the eternal dance.

I danced on his tune and tamed and turned to a gentle breeze.

                                                                    - Aarushi